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 Aug 27, 2021
Friday Aug 27, 2021
Today, Dr Avijit Barai talks to us about sternoclavicular joint injuries.
Here are the links Avijit recommends reviewing.
Orthobullets - https://www.orthobullets.com/trauma/1009/sternoclavicular-dislocation
Radiopaedia - https://radiopaedia.org/articles/sternoclavicular-joint-injury
Avijit's YouTube page - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylMYCOzYZ7Y
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Full Grip by Score Squad
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 Aug 20, 2021
Friday Aug 20, 2021
Today we revisit a podcast recorded last August using clips recorded in July 2019. As New Zealand deals with another lockdown it is a good time to once again consider lessons from the past.
Find details of the walk I followed at the RCPE website
https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/talks/medical-history-walking-tour
James Young Simpson - demonstrated use of Chloroform
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Young_Simpson
Joseph Lister - the Father of modern Surgery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister
Robert Philip - pioneer in treatment of TB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_William_Philip
The Historic Charlotte Square
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Square
The paper on the 1997 Hogmanay event - O'Donnell JJ, Gleeson AP, Smith H. Edinburgh's Hogmanay Celebrations: beyond a major disaster. J Accid Emerg Med. 1998 Jul;15(4): 272-273. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9681315/
Burke and Hare - the famous bodysnatchers/murderers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders
The Edinburgh Infirmary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Infirmary_of_Edinburgh
Surgeons Hall riot and the Edinburgh Seven
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgeons%27_Hall_riot
The Surgeons Hall Museum
Deacon Brodie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brodie
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Braes of Melinish by Harpo Marks
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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 Aug 13, 2021
Friday Aug 13, 2021
An eponymous paediatric ankle fracture we should all know to look for.
Check out the OrthoBullets Page - https://www.orthobullets.com/pediatrics/4028/tillaux-fractures
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Full Grip by Score Squad
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 Aug 06, 2021
Friday Aug 06, 2021
We should consider asking some of our patients how many times they have seen a clinician with these chronic symptoms.
Check out the BMC Family Practice paper. A steep increase in healthcare-seeking behaviour in the last months before colorectal cancer diagnosis. Josephina Kuiper et al. BMC Fam Prac 2021;22(1)121 https://bmcfampract.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12875-021-01482-0
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Friday Jul 30, 2021
Friday Jul 30, 2021
What is Takotsubo? To find out we speak with Dr Avijit Barai.
Check out Avijit's YouTube video - https://youtu.be/-jVAFi2xmk0
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Friday Jul 23, 2021
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Today we look at two upcoming CPD opportunities.
NZWCS webinar - https://nzwcs.org.nz/wound-awareness-week/217-wound-awareness-week-2021-burns-and-scalds
Bootcamp tickets - https://rnzcuc.org.nz/urgent-care-boot-camp-2021-programme/
Pre-Bootcamp Workshops from Pegasus 24 hour surgery - https://www.24hoursurgery.co.nz/our-services/pre-bootcamp-workshops
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Full Grip by Score Squad
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 Jul 16, 2021
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Do you use the slump test when you examine back pain?
This YouTube video from Physio Tutors shows the slump test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFGfP84uwEo
Read through this Cochrane review - van der Windt DAWM, Simons E, Riphagen II, Ammendolia C, Verhagen AP, Laslett M, Devillé W, Deyo RA, Bouter LM, de Vet HCW, Aertgeerts B. Physical examination for lumbar radiculopathy due to disc herniation in patients with low-back pain. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD007431. https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD007431.pub2/references
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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 Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
We should all know about the hair tourniquet and never forget to look for one.
This link is to the abstract of the first case report for using depilation cream to treat hair tourniquet O'Gorman A, Ratnapalan S, Paediat Emerg Care, 2011 Mar;27(3):203-4 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21378520/
Check out this Don't Forget the Bubbles Post about the Topic - Andrew Tagg. Hair tourniquets, Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2017. Available at: https://doi.org/10.31440/DFTB.11765
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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 Jul 02, 2021
Friday Jul 02, 2021
This podcast is a recording of a Webinar from the evening of 29th June 2021 with Dr Joe Bourne, the Primary Care lead for the New Zealand COVID-19 Vaccination and Immunisation Programme. In this talk he guides us through the stages of the vaccine rollout and tells us how we can get involved, as a vaccination site, a vaccinator or a vaccine advocate.
Immunisation Advisory Centre Training - http://lms.immune.org.nz/
Ministry Vaccine information - https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-vaccine-data
Information for Health Professionals -
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Friday Jun 25, 2021
Friday Jun 25, 2021
Here is some important College news of which to be aware.
COVID-19 vaccination webinar registration - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_m7b8oTl8SWWxDLGnMDqfGw
Further information available here - https://rnzcuc.org.nz/webinar-covid-19-vaccine-and-immunisation-programme/
Pre-Bootcamp Courses from the 24 Hour Surgery - https://www.24hoursurgery.co.nz/our-services/pre-bootcamp-workshops
Bootcamp Tickets and information - https://rnzcuc.org.nz/urgent-care-boot-camp-2021-programme/
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Full Grip by Score Squad
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