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 21, 2019
Friday Jun 21, 2019
Why you must ask about Sunscreen allergies and other important things relating to local anaesthetic eye drops.
https://medsafe.govt.nz/profs/Datasheet/m/Minims-Tetracainehydrochlorideeyedrops.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/sulfonamides
https://www.nzf.org.nz/nzf_7022#nzf_70785
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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 Jun 14, 2019
Friday Jun 14, 2019
Is it time to ditch the ophthalmoscope as a tool for viewing the retina?
Send us your thoughts to podcast@rnzcuc.org.nz
Ophthalmoscopy in the 21st Century article
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5798658/
FOTO-ED study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3722897/
Frontiers in Neurology Study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4638141/
Smartphone study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6387606/
Stanford25 website
http://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu/the25/fundoscopic.html
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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 Jun 07, 2019
Friday Jun 07, 2019
Dr Dinesh Deonarain is a Fellow of the RNZCUC and has just completed 50 days at Everest Base Camp as one of the Doctors staffing the Everest ER.
We catch up with him in Kathmandu at the end of his adventure as he prepares to travel home. We talk about his experiences, how he got to work there and the physical and mental strains of working at such high altitude. We also hear him recite a couple of passages from his blog. You can read the rest by following the links below.
If you would like to support Everest ER and the Himalayan Rescue Association, you can donate by bank transfer to: BNZ 02-0800-0196128-000. Also, you can follow Everest ER this season at www.EverestER.org
or visit the Himalayan Rescue Association website and Facebook page
https://himalayanrescue.org.np
https://www.facebook.com/HRANepal
Read Dinesh's Blog here
https://rnzcuc.org.nz/boots-on-everest-episode-1/
https://rnzcuc.org.nz/boots-on-everest-episode-8/
Listen to Dinesh's journey to Urgent Care and Wilderness medicine on our Profile in Urgent Care interview.
https://rnzcuc.org.nz/profile-in-urgent-care-part-1-dr-dinesh-deonarain/
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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 31, 2019
Friday May 31, 2019
Welcome to Episode 10 of the official podcast of the Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care.
We discuss:-
- managing Facial wounds in Urgent Care (1.26)
- Using Tramadol (7.55)
https://first10em.com/tramadol/
https://www.goodfellowunit.org/events/pharmacological-management-acute-pain
- Using Ear Drops with a tympanic membrane that is not intact.(12.38)
- IV versus Oral Antibiotics for Cellulitis (17.15)
https://first10em.com/oral-antibiotics-oviva/
- Will Epipens ever be subsidised? (23.35)
- Remember Bonjela contains salicylate. (24.50)
- Compartment Syndrome Story (29.35)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12234569
(Apologies for any builder related noises that leach into the recording - I have tried to remove as many bangs and saw noises as I can.)
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Friday May 31, 2019
Friday May 31, 2019
Are IV antibiotics more effective than Orals when treating Cellulitis?
We discuss the evidence with Dr Justin Morgenstern, a Canadian Emergency Physician currently based in Taranaki Base Hospital, New Zealand. He writes a Medical Blog first10EM which is worth a read.
https://first10em.com/oral-antibiotics-oviva/
Let us know your thoughts on this topic
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Friday May 24, 2019
Friday May 24, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Today we look at the use of ear drops when the tympanic membrane is not intact. Are you comfortable using potentially ototoxic drops as the first line treatment? How do you feel about the contraindications listed for these drops and how do they affect your practice?
Email your thoughts to podcast@rnzcuc.org.nz
https://bpac.org.nz/category.aspx?CategoryId=9
https://www.pharmac.govt.nz/news/notification-2017-09-15-ciprofloxacin/
https://medsafe.govt.nz/profs/Datasheet/s/Sofradexeyeeardrops.pdf
https://medsafe.govt.nz/profs/Datasheet/l/locortenvioformeardrops.pdf
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Friday May 17, 2019
Friday May 17, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Today we hear from Dr Justin Morgenstern, currently an Emergency Physician at Taranaki Base hospital in New Zealand. Justin trained in Emergency Medicine and Family Practice in Canada and he writes a medical blog which can be found here - https://first10em.com
These are his thoughts on Tramadol use.
https://first10em.com/tramadol/
Let us know your thoughts on what Justin has to say and what your experiences and personal practices are regarding tramadol use.
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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 10, 2019
Friday May 10, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Wound management is a big part of Urgent Care and facial wounds add some extra issues for consideration. What are your experiences with facial wounds and what rules to you personally practice by with regards to when to refer for specialist input? We will discuss this issue in a future main episode of the podcast so your input will help develop the discussion. Pop over to Facebook or send us an email.
For good wound management advice, check out this website about wound repair
My thanks once again to Professor Bruce Arroll for sharing his thoughts.
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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 03, 2019
Friday May 03, 2019
Welcome to this week's Urgent Bite. Today we look at a recent BPAC article on Mycoplasma Genitalium and its association with Urethritis, Cervicitis and PID.
https://bpac.org.nz/2019/mycoplasma-genitalium.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 Apr 26, 2019
Friday Apr 26, 2019
Welcome to Episode 9 of the official podcast of the Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care. Today I am joined by Dr Dave Sorrell to look back at recent Urgent Bites regarding Segond fractures, the Simmonds/Thompson test and using Antibiotics for UTI in the Elderly. We also look at an interesting case of sub tarsal foreign body, talk about why kids are swallowing more foreign bodies than they used to and we talk about how the Junior Doctor Strikes affect Urgent Care. We are then joined by Dr Afrax Adams to look at some college news including the upcoming Urgent Care Boot Camp.
Segond Fracture Bite - https://rnzcuc.podbean.com/e/urgent-bite-24-the-segond-fracture/
Simmonds Thompson Test Bite - https://rnzcuc.podbean.com/e/urgent-bite-23-simmondsthompson-test-which-way-is-positive/
Antibiotics for UTI in the Elderly - https://rnzcuc.podbean.com/e/urgent-bite-20-antibiotics-for-uti-in-the-elderly/
BBC article on Bees under the eyelids
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47876130
Kids swallowing more Foreign Bodies than 20 years ago story
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/12/health/kids-swallow-objects-study/index.html
Article about Junior Doctor Strikes
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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