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 Dec 06, 2019
Friday Dec 06, 2019
Dr Rob Evison draws on his 34 years of clinical practice to advise us on managing rib fractures in the elderly and how he has learned to fail upwards, thereby improving his practice.
EM Docs page on Rib Fractures in the Elderly
http://www.emdocs.net/rib-fractures-elderly/
Podcast on Failing up with Dr Sarah Gray
https://emergencymedicinecases.com/failing-up-medical-error/
Urgent Care Updates with Dr Rob
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Full Grip by ScoreSquad
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 Nov 29, 2019
Friday Nov 29, 2019
Today with talk with Intensive Care Paramedic, Haydn Drake, about approaching airway and breathing problems in your Urgent Care clinic.
The Vortex Approach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0bp7Eh8ez8
Pocket CPGs from St John
Comprehensive CPGs from St John
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Full Grip by ScoreSquad
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 Nov 22, 2019
Friday Nov 22, 2019
How can we improve our diagnostic accuracy in Urgent Care? Dr Matt Wright tells us how frameworks and clinical support tools can help us improve our diagnostic accuracy and ultimately the quality of the care we deliver.
Matt is a FRNZCUC, works in the Emergency Department of Middlemore Hospital and is a member of the RNZCUC executive. He holds an MBA from Cambridge and outside of his clinical practice he works on quality improvement in Medicine.
Below are links to some of the sites and books that Matt mentions in his talk
Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine
https://www.improvediagnosis.org
How Doctors Think - Jerome Groopman MD
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185897.How_Doctors_Think
Life in the Fastlane
BMJ Best Practice
https://bestpractice.bmj.com/info/
Isabel
https://www.isabelhealthcare.com
Up To Date
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine online
https://oxfordmedicine.com/view/10.1093/med/9780199689903.001.0001/med-9780199689903
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Full Grip by ScoreSquad
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 Nov 15, 2019
Friday Nov 15, 2019
If you consider the chest clear on auscultation, could your patient still have pneumonia?
Dr Kelvin Ward, FRNZCUC, presents 3 cases that show how POCUS can improve diagnostic accuracy when it comes to patients with pneumonia and a normal chest examination.
This talk was recorded in September at the inaugural Urgent Care Bootcamp in Auckland.
Follow Kelvin's case here
https://urgentcareultrasound.co.nz/2019/07/17/case-20-stethoscopically-occult-pneumonopathies/
Follow him on Twitter - https://twitter.com/UCUltrasound
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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 Nov 08, 2019
Friday Nov 08, 2019
How do you manage an uncomplicated boxers fracture?
Abstract
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=buddy+taping+uncomplicated+neck+metacarpal
Cochrane Review
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16034891
Orthobullets page
https://www.orthobullets.com/hand/6037/metacarpal-fractures
David Haye - post match hand in buddy taping
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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 Nov 01, 2019
Friday Nov 01, 2019
For patients with vague symptoms including headache and lethargy, don't forget to think Carbon Monoxide poisoning.
BPAC Article
https://bpac.org.nz/2019/co.aspx
CDC link
https://www.cdc.gov/co/copoisoningfactsheet.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
Friday Oct 25, 2019
Friday Oct 25, 2019
Acute flares of Eczema are a common presenting complaint to Urgent Care. We speak with Dr Amanda Oakley, Consultant Dermatologist, Adjunct Associate Professor at Auckland University and the Founder of www.dermnetnz.org about why eczema flares and how those flares should be managed.
Dermnet Eczema Page
https://www.dermnetnz.org/topics/atopic-dermatitis/
Dermnet Finger Tip Unit page
https://www.dermnetnz.org/topics/fingertip-unit/
Bleach Bath page
https://www.dermnetnz.org/topics/bleach-baths-in-patients-with-skin-infections/
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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 Oct 18, 2019
Friday Oct 18, 2019
Tranexamic acid use in Head Injury - it is worth reading this recent paper from the Lancet and some of the blogs that discuss it.
The Lancet paper (currently open access) - Crash-3
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32233-0/fulltext
The Crash- 2 Trial
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23477634
The Rebel EM Blog
https://rebelem.com/crash-3-txa-for-ich/
EMLitOfNote Blog
http://www.emlitofnote.com/?p=4538
PulmCrit (EMCrit) Blog
https://emcrit.org/pulmcrit/crash3/
The BBC article
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49977827
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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 Oct 11, 2019
Friday Oct 11, 2019
A sharpie can provide great continuity of care when managing pre-tibial flap lacerations.
Many Thanks to Amor Kisling for discussing this tip I found on Twitter from Dr Rob Greig (@drrobgreig)
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Full Grip by ScoreSquad
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 Oct 04, 2019
Friday Oct 04, 2019
Urticaria causes patients to present to Urgent Care Clinics. We hear from Dr Amanda Oakley, Consultant Dermatologist, an Adjunct Associate Professor at Auckland University and the Founder of Dermnet NZ about how it should be managed.
https://www.dermnetnz.org/topics/urticaria-an-overview/
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Music licensed from www.premiumbeat.com
Full Grip by ScoreSquad
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