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
Friday Oct 21, 2022
Friday Oct 21, 2022
A person had 23 contact lenses under their eyelid.
Check out the news article from Stuff here - https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/300713918/doctor-fishes-bizarre-discovery-out-of-womans-eye-23-contact-lenses
Check out the trick of the trade from Academic Life in Emergency Medicine - https://www.aliem.com/trick-of-trade-fluorescein-contact-lens/
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Friday Oct 14, 2022
Friday Oct 14, 2022
A few important things to remember about perichondritis of the pinna.
Check out the Stat pearls page - link
Khan N, Cunning N. Pinna Perichondritis. [Updated 2022 Jun 5]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2022 Jan-.
Check out the Dermnet page on relapsing polychondritis - https://dermnetnz.org/topics/relapsing-polychondritis
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Friday Oct 07, 2022
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Watching the recent World Long Drive competition highlighted how sometimes a history can be misleading.
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Friday Sep 30, 2022
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Dr Johanne Egan and Dr Charlotte Chambers spoke to us about burnout in urgent care at a webinar earlier this year. This podcast is the audio from that webinar.
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Friday Sep 23, 2022
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Can a patient accurately locate a fish bone stuck in their throat? And are X-rays good at locating them?
Check out the paper here - https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/Fulltext/2022/07290/Can_the_patient_pinpoint_where_the_ingested_fish.39.aspx
Oh GM, Jung K, Kim JH, Kim SE, Moon W, Park MI, Park SJ. Can the patient pinpoint where the ingested fish bone is impacted? A single-centre, retrospective study. Medicine. 2022;101:30(e29399).
Check out Research Review - https://www.researchreview.co.nz/nz/Home.aspx
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Friday Sep 16, 2022
Friday Sep 16, 2022
We see it quite often but why is it called herpangina?
Check out the Dermnet page on Herpangina - https://dermnetnz.org/topics/herpangina
Check out the Stat Pearls page on Ludwig's angina - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK482354/
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Friday Sep 09, 2022
Friday Sep 09, 2022
Important we consider potential interactions between opioids and antidepressants.
Check out the Medsafe Prescriber update here - https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/profs/PUArticles/September2022/Opioids-and-serotonergic%20medicines-risk-of-serotonin-syndrome.html
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Friday Sep 02, 2022
Friday Sep 02, 2022
An important eponym that may help us miss fewer lunate dislocations on initial presentation.
Check out the Orthobullets page - https://www.orthobullets.com/hand/6045/lunate-dislocation-perilunate-dissociation
Check out the Radiopaedia page - https://radiopaedia.org/articles/lunate-dislocation
Read Dr Gilula's obituary here - https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.14144047
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Friday Aug 26, 2022
Friday Aug 26, 2022
An eponymous fracture that we tend not to hear used so much these days.
Read more about Pott here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percivall_Pott
Read more about Dupuytren here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Dupuytren
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Friday Aug 19, 2022
Friday Aug 19, 2022
Let's ask Dr Rob Evison how not to miss significant ankle injuries.
Rob recommends checking out this page for further reading/listening.
https://emergencymedicinecases.com/commonly-missed-ankle-injuries/
Helman, A, Sayal, A, Mehdian, H. Commonly Missed Ankle Injuries. Emergency Medicine Cases. January, 2018. https://emergencymedicinecases.com/commonly-missed-ankle-injuries/.
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