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 Jun 03, 2022
Friday Jun 03, 2022
We are joined by Dr Rory Miller to discuss a recently published paper that looked at the use of point of care troponin alongside an accelerated chest pain pathway in New Zealand rural and primary care.
https://academic.oup.com/ehjacc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ehjacc/zuac037/6562963?login=false
Miller R, Nixon G, Pickering JW, Stokes T, Turner RM, Young J, Gutenstein M, Smith M, Norman T, Watson A, George P, Devlin G, Du Toit S, Than M. A prospective multi-centre study assessing the safety and effectiveness following the implementation of an accelerated chest pain pathway using point-of-care troponin for use in New Zealand rural hospital and primary care settings. Eur Heart J Acute Cardiovasc Care. 2022 Apr 4:zuac037. doi: 10.1093/ehjacc/zuac037. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35373255.
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Full Grip by Score Squad
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Friday May 27, 2022
Friday May 27, 2022
Should you advise soaking the finger after nail trephination?
Check out these links
Pingel C, McDowell C. Subungual Hematoma Drainage. [Updated 2021 Jul 31]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK482508/
This link is to a collection of chapters on Subungual haematoma. The one by Philip Buttaravoli MD FACEP, in Minor Emergencies (Second Edition), 2007 is the one I read - https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/subungual-hematoma
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Friday May 20, 2022
Friday May 20, 2022
ACC has created some concussion educational material available through BPAC and the Goodfellow Unit.
The Goodfellow Unit Module
www.goodfellowunit.org/courses/concussionmild-traumatic-brain-injury-mtbi
The BPAC Article
https://bpac.org.nz/2022/concussion.aspx
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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
Friday May 13, 2022
Friday May 13, 2022
Dr Jonathan Reisman is an ER physician, author and adventurer. He joins the podcast for a conversation about travel, medicine, adventure, food, anatomy and life, drawing on experiences he documents in his recently published book, The Unseen Body.
http://www.jonathanreisman.com/
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Billion Stars by Remember the Future
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
Friday May 06, 2022
Friday May 06, 2022
Dr. Maple Goh is a physician-trainee of Chinese-Malaysian heritage who migrated alone to Aotearoa at the age of thirteen to forge her journey. She is passionate about healthcare equity, especially in Māori, Pasifika and refugee groups in Aotearoa. Outside of the hospital, Maple is a professional violinist, founder of a non-profit and podcast host of ‘Doctor NOS’, aimed at providing career guidance and promoting diversity and representation in medicine. She is currently a medical registrar in Wellington and will be pursuing a Masters in Public Health at Harvard University in due time
Find the Doctor NOS podcast here - https://doctornos.buzzsprout.com/
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Friday Apr 29, 2022
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Dr. Maple Goh is a physician-trainee of Chinese-Malaysian heritage who migrated alone to Aotearoa at the age of thirteen to forge her journey. She is passionate about healthcare equity, especially in Māori, Pasifika and refugee groups in Aotearoa. Outside of the hospital, Maple is a professional violinist, founder of a non-profit and podcast host of ‘Doctor NOS’, aimed at providing career guidance and promoting diversity and representation in medicine. She is currently a medical registrar in Wellington and will be pursuing a Masters in Public Health at Harvard University in due time
Find the Doctor NOS podcast here - https://doctornos.buzzsprout.com/
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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
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Friday Apr 22, 2022
What factors can affect the reading you get from a glucometer?
Check out the papers mentioned
Ginsberg BH. Factors affecting blood glucose monitoring: sources of errors in measurement. J Diabetes Sci Technol. 2009;3(4):903-913. Published 2009 Jul 1. doi:10.1177/193229680900300438
Olamoyegun MA, Oloyede T, Adewoye OG, Abdulkarim SO, Adeleke AA. Pseudohyperglycemia: Effects of Unwashed Hand after Fruit Peeling or Handling on Fingertips Blood Glucose Monitoring Results. Ann Med Health Sci Res. 2016;6(6):362-366. doi:10.4103/amhsr.amhsr_396_15
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Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Why is it called the tragus and when might we encounter it in urgent care?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragus_(ear)
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Friday Apr 08, 2022
Friday Apr 08, 2022
We are joined by Dr Tim Funaki who talks to us about a recent experience he had when he discovered a guideline had changed without his realising. We discuss how we should feel comfortable looking up information, even if we think we already know it and we take a look at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne infant reflux guidelines.
Check out the guidelines here - https://www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Gastrooesophageal_reflux_disease_in_infants/
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Friday Apr 01, 2022
Friday Apr 01, 2022
Have you heard of the Chauffeur Fracture?
Check out the Radiopaedia page - Jones, J., Niknejad, M. Chauffeur fracture. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org. https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-8980
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