Home of the Official Podcasts of the RNZCUC - these are intended to provide ongoing education for medical professionals and should not be used for self diagnosis. Always consult your regular doctor. Always work within your scope of practice.
Episodes
Jul 12, 2024
Jul 12, 2024
6 min
Do antihistamines help with the itch of dermatitis?
Check out the paper mentioned
Nankervis H, Thomas KS, Delamere FM, Barbarot S, Rogers NK, Williams HC. Scoping systematic review of treatments for eczema. Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library; 2016 May. PMID: 27280278.
Check out the Dermnet NZ page.
Authors: Dr Amy Stanway, Department of Dermatology, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand, February 2004; Updated: Honorary Associate Professor Paul Jarrett, Dermatologist, Middlemore Hospital and Department of Medicine, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, February 2021. Minor internal update May 2023.
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This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
Jul 5, 2024
Jul 5, 2024
4 min
When you need help with identifying medications from overseas visitors, you can always call your local pharmacist, or you could try this website.
Check out the webpage mentioned - https://www.resourcepharm.com/pharmacist/identification-of-foreign-medicines.html
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This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
Jun 28, 2024
Jun 28, 2024
6 min
As medical professionals, we must know our legal and moral obligations to help in case of emergency.
Check out the MCNZ page on helping in an emergency.
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This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
Jun 21, 2024
Jun 21, 2024
8 min
Certain music can help improve your concentration, help you relax and improve your sleep.
Check out https://www.brain.fm/
Check out their white paper.
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Jun 14, 2024
Jun 14, 2024
8 min
Cold and flu remedies containing pseudoephedrine are now a class C drug in New Zealand and available from pharmacies.
Check out the prescriber update from June 2024.
Check out the Ministry of Health page.
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This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
Jun 7, 2024
Jun 7, 2024
30 min
Dr Tony Smith, Deputy Clinical Director at Hato Hone St John, tells us about Double Sequential and Vector Change Defibrillation for resistant VF/VT. These new techniques, not currently covered in our NZRC resus algorithms, are being utilised by all ambulance services in New Zealand for patients who do not get ROSC after three shocks.
Tony can be contacted for questions at - Tony.Smith@stjohn.org.nz
Check out the paper mentioned
Cheskes S, Verbeek PR, Drennan IR, McLeod SL, Turner L, Pinto R, Feldman M, Davis M, Vaillancourt C, Morrison LJ, Dorian P, Scales DC. Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation. N Engl J Med. 2022 Nov 24;387(21):1947-1956. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2207304. Epub 2022 Nov 6. PMID: 36342151.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2207304
And the editorial - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2213562
Check out the Article from the Conversation - https://theconversation.com/a-new-emergency-procedure-for-cardiac-arrests-aims-to-save-more-lives-heres-how-it-works-221979
Check out the article from the NZMJ
Dicker B, Maessen S, Swain A, Garcia E, Smith T. Are two shocks better than one? Aotearoa New Zealand emergency medical services implement a new defibrillation strategy: implications for around nine patients per week. N Z Med J. 2024 Mar 22;137(1592):105-107. doi: 10.26635/6965.6429. PMID: 38513209.
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May 31, 2024
May 31, 2024
35 min
Professor Bruce Arroll talks to us about a practical technique that can help regulate breathing in people having panic attacks or during an asthma attack. The conversation then leads into discussing the Polyvagal Theory, physician wellness, and chronic pain.
Check out the Goodfellow unit resources.
The Beginners Guide to the Polyvagal Theory
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This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
May 24, 2024
May 24, 2024
6 min
Remember to consider an ASIS avulsion in young athletes who experience pain and a pop around their hip when sprinting.
Check out the Orthobullets page
https://www.orthobullets.com/knee-and-sports/3091/anterior-superior-iliac-spine-asis-avulsion
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This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
May 17, 2024
May 17, 2024
6 min
A differential to consider when examining a dorsal wrist swelling.
Check out the Radiopaedia pages
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This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
May 10, 2024
May 10, 2024
13 min
Much like going to the gym, CPD can be a hassle or an imposition, but it can also be fun and hugely rewarding.
Check out the paper mentioned
Jeong D, Presseau J, ElChamaa R, Naumann DN, Mascaro C, Luconi F, Smith KM, Kitto S. Barriers and Facilitators to Self-Directed Learning in Continuing Professional Development for Physicians in Canada: A Scoping Review. Acad Med. 2018 Aug;93(8):1245-1254. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29642101/
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This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor