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 Apr 12, 2019
Friday Apr 12, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Today we look at the Eponymous fracture of the knee - the Segond Fracture. What is it and what does it mean?
https://radiopaedia.org/articles/segond-fracture
https://radiopaedia.org/articles/reverse-segond-fracture?lang=us
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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 Apr 05, 2019
Friday Apr 05, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Today we look at the Simmonds/Thompson test for Achilles Tendon rupture. What is the positive and what is the negative outcome of this test?
Check out this article from Life in the Fast Lane
https://litfl.com/simmonds-thompson-test/
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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 Mar 29, 2019
Friday Mar 29, 2019
Welcome to Episode 8 of the Official Podcast of the Royal NZ College of Urgent Care. This episode was recorded live at the Goodfellow Symposium and is a discussion with Emergency Medicine Specialist and President Elect of the ACEM - Dr John Bonning. Together with Dr Dave Sorrell (DCT for RNZCUC) we discuss investigating Pulmonary Embolism, Chest Pain and Head injury.
Pulmonary Embolism - (1.45)
Chest Pain - (20.40)
Head Injury - (26.50)
These links are to the decision instruments referenced throughout the talk.
https://www.mdcalc.com/perc-rule-pulmonary-embolism
https://www.mdcalc.com/wells-criteria-pulmonary-embolism
https://www.mdcalc.com/heart-score-major-cardiac-events
https://www.mdcalc.com/timi-risk-score-ua-nstemi
https://www.mdcalc.com/emergency-department-assessment-chest-pain-score-edacs
https://www.mdcalc.com/canadian-ct-head-injury-trauma-rule
Check out Choosing Wisely NZ - https://choosingwisely.org.nz
Check out the Goodfellow Unit - https://www.goodfellowunit.org
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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 Mar 22, 2019
Friday Mar 22, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Today we take a quick look at the Choosing Wisely initiative.
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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 Mar 15, 2019
Friday Mar 15, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Today we look at next week's podcast recording that is happening on stage at the Goodfellow Symposium. It will be an interview with Emergency Medicine Specialist and President elect of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine, Dr John Bonning.
If you are coming to the Goodfellow, pop along to the RNZCUC stream at 1205 on Sunday 24th March and hear the discussion. Please feel free to ask a question and you can get to appear on the podcast! If you are not coming to the Goodfellow, please ask a question via email and we will try to get you an answer.
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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
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
Welcome to the Second Profile in Urgent Care. This episode we talk with Dr Claire Russell, an Urgent Care Physician in Hamilton, NZ, whose career has quite literally taken her around the world.
Check out the trailer for the Documentary film - Maiden, in which the story of how the first female crew to sail in the Whitbread Round the World race is told. Claire was a part of that groundbreaking crew and the film is out now in the UK and will be coming to NZ and the rest of the world soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AecVJ3Br4zc
It has had some great reviews so far, so if you need further convincing check out this review.
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/maiden/review/
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Indomitable by Elliot Middleton
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 Mar 08, 2019
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Welcome to this weeks Urgent Bite. Today we look at a recent open access paper in the BMJ that looked at the effect immediate antibiotics had on bloodstream infections and all cause mortality in the elderly with UTI, compared to no antibiotics or delayed antibiotics. It is worth reading.
https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l525.long
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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 Mar 01, 2019
Friday Mar 01, 2019
Welcome to Episode 7 of the Official Podcast of the Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care.
Owing to illness and other scheduling problems there is no main talk this episode. We will endeavour to release the talk at a later date when recorded. In the mean time we discuss the last Months Urgent Bites with Dr Dave Sorrell and look at the increasing numbers of Measles cases occurring around the world.
Stuff article on Measles in Canterbury
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/110864077/two-cases-of-measles-confirmed-in-rangiora
NZ Herald article on Measles worldwide
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=12207491
Starship Measles Guidelines
https://www.starship.org.nz/for-health-professionals/starship-clinical-guidelines/m/measles/
MOH Measles page
https://www.health.govt.nz/your-health/conditions-and-treatments/diseases-and-illnesses/measles
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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
Wednesday Feb 27, 2019
Wednesday Feb 27, 2019
Coming Soon - our next Profile in Urgent Care will feature Dr Claire Russell.
We learn about Claire's Journey to Urgent Care via Emergency Medicine and Rural General Practice, whilst also pursuing a love of sailing, travel and adventure. We learn how with the right team you can take on the world and how that team might not be what convention or the establishment expects.
Please check out the link here to the trailer for the Movie Documentary - Maiden. This film charts the remarkable journey that Claire was a part of in the 1989 Whitbread around the world race.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AecVJ3Br4zc
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Indomitable by Elliot Middleton
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Friday Feb 22, 2019
Friday Feb 22, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Today we ask the question - do you prescribe an antidepressant on the first visit to an Urgent Care?
An evidence based first consultation for depression: 9 Key messages - https://bjgp.org/content/68/669/200.long
Effective Management of Depression in Primary Care: a review of the literature - https://bjgpopen.org/content/1/2/BJGP-2016-0641
Many Thanks to Professor Bruce Arroll for sharing his story.
For lots of primary care relevant online learning resources check out the Goodfellow unit - https://www.goodfellowunit.org
Those of you with a keen eye on the diary will notice this was the last Friday of the Month. Due to the short Month we will be releasing Episode 7 next Friday - technically the 1st March I know, but we do live in the future here in NZ.
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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