Happy New Year! This month for the January 2025 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast, we have got two new in EM segments looking at staff turnover and mortality and the assessment of febrile infants. Becky and Chris detail a guideline on acute kidney injury, before ending with New Online. If you'd like to email us, please feel free to do so here. After listening, complete a short quiz to have your time accredited for CPD at the RCEMLearning website!

• Nurse and doctor turnover and patient outcomes in NHS acute trusts in England: retrospective longitudinal study (Moscelli et al., 2024), PDF

• Acute kidney injury: prevention, detection and management (NICE, 2024), PDF

• Performance of clinical decision aids (CDA) for the care of young febrile infants: a multicentre prospective cohort study conducted in the UK and Ireland (Umana et al., 2024), PDF
• Optimizing Management of Febrile Young Infants Without Serum Procalcitonin (Burstein et al., 2025), PDF

• Vasopressors - Alasdair Munro, Simin Nikou, Charlotte Davies
• The Limping Child, by Charlotte Davies and Nikki Abela
• Testicular Pain, by Kellie Bateman

Merry Christmas! This month for the December 2024 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast, we have got a new in EM segment looking at the surgical management of haemorrhagic stroke. Becky and Chris talk gift us with a big discussion around the management of pain in the ED. Rob talks to Laura Howard and Gregory Yates about reviving the BestBETS project, before ending with New Online. If you'd like to email us, please feel free to do so here. After listening, complete a short quiz to have your time accredited for CPD at the RCEMLearning website!

• Trial of Early Minimally Invasive Removal of Intracerebral Hemorrhage (Pradilla et al., 2024)

• RCEM Management of Acute Pain in Adults in the ED (RCEM, 2024)

• BestBETs
• Get Involved with BestBETs (Email link)
• Best Evidence Topic report: Is a CT head required for patients who present to the emergency department with a first seizure? (Yates & Williams, EMJ, 2024)

• The Forgotten Tribe - Lauren Fraser and Michelle Jacobs
• Surgical Management of Acute Wounds in the ED - Olajide Kamal Badmus, Riad Hosein
• Curriculum Cup (Respiratory) - RCEMLearning

Happy October! This month for the October 2024 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast, We have got two new in EM segments looking at the use of peripheral hypertonic saline and defibrillation strategies in refractory VF. Rob and I will then be discussing the RCEM Toolkit for caring with patients with learning disability. Rob then talks to the EM at the Deep End team, before ending with New Online. If you'd like to email us, please feel free to do so here. After listening, complete a short quiz to have your time accredited for CPD at the RCEMLearning website!

• Safety and Effect on Intracranial Pressure of 3% Hypertonic Saline Bolus Via Peripheral Intravenous Catheter for Neurological Emergencies (Khasiyev et al., 2024)

• Learning Disabilities Toolkit (RCEM, 2024)

• Open Teams Meeting to EM at the Deep End - 4th October 2024 13:30
• EM at the Deep End

• Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation (Cheskes et al., 2024) - link to the paper coming soon

• Coughing, wheezy, and stridulous children - Edward Snelson
• Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy… HELLP! - Jenni Cooper, Naomi Primrose
• Frailty-associated pneumonia - David G Smithard

Happy September! This month for the September 2024 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast, we have a new in EM section looking at the use of NIV for preoxygenation in RSI. We then have Becky and Chris going over a new Guidelines for EM looking at the NICE Guidelines for meningitis. Rob puts on his TERN hat and speaks to the two former TERN Fellows and Dan Horner about the results of the Subarachnoid Haemorrhage in the ED Study before ending with New Online. If you'd like to email us, please feel free to do so here. After listening, complete a short quiz to have your time accredited for CPD at the RCEMLearning website!

• Noninvasive Ventilation for Preoxygenation during Emergency Intubation (Gibbs et al., 2024)

• Meningitis (bacterial) and meningococcal disease: recognition, diagnosis and management (NICE, 2024)

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• Subarachnoid haemorrhage in the emergency department (SHED): a prospective, observational, multicentre cohort study (The Trainee Emergency Research Network, 2004) - link to the paper coming soon
• The TERN Website
• TERN on Twitter/X

• Training for Research in Emergency Care (TREC) - The TREC Team
• Delivering Bad News - Charlotte Davies
• Ocular trauma - Deepa Elsa George, Sophie Seguin-Greenstein

Happy August! This month for the August 2024 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast, we have two new in EM sections looking at the use of high flow nasal cannula vs. NIV for COPD and clinical gestalt for predicting sepsis. We then have Becky and Chris going over a new Guidelines for EM looking at opioid toxicity before ending with New Online. If you'd like to email us, please feel free to do so here. After listening, complete a short quiz to have your time accredited for CPD at the RCEMLearning website!

• High flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy versus non-invasive ventilation for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute-moderate hypercapnic respiratory failure: a randomized controlled non-inferiority trial (Tan et al., 2024)
• Probing the efficacy of high-flow nasal cannula in the treatment of acute exacerbations of COPD with acute-moderate hypercapnic respiratory failure (Pantazopoulos and Mavrovouni, 2024)

• RCEM and NPIS - Guideline for the Assessment and Management of Acute Opioid Toxicity in Adults in the Emergency Department (PDF) (RCEM & NPIS, 2024)

• Early Physician Gestalt Versus Usual Screening Tools for the Prediction of Sepsis in Critically Ill Emergency Patients (Knack et al., 2024)

• PEM and Ex-Prems - Katie Knight
• Curriculum Cup (Infectious Disease) - RCEMLearning)
• Induction - RCEMLearning

Happy July! This month for the July 2024 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast, Rob and Liz do two New in EM papers looking at performance of febrile infant algorithms by duration of fever and the use of Resorbable vs Non-Resorbable sutures in facial laceration repair. We complete the second part of our two-part Guidelines for EM looking at sickle cell disease before ending with New Online. If you'd like to email us, please feel free to do so here. After listening, complete a short quiz to have your time accredited for CPD at the RCEMLearning website!

• Performance of Febrile Infant Algorithms by Duration of Fever (Velasco et al., 2024)

• RCEM - Management of Acute Presentations of Sickle Cell Disease in the ED (PDF) (RCEM, 2024)
• Sickle Cell Society - No One's Listening

• Randomised controlled trial of resorbable versus non-resorbable sutures for lacerations of the face (TORN Face) (Basyuni et al., 2024)

• Things I wish I’d learnt before Emergency Medicine and Parenthood - Charlotte Mitchell
• Pertussis - Nikki Abela
• Improving Culture – Change Begins with Me - Thomas Bannister

Happy June! This month for the June 2024 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast, Rob and Liz talk us through a New in EM section on nailbed repair in paediatric finger bed injury. We have the first in a two-parter on Sickle Cell Disease in our Guidelines for EM section and then Rob speaks with Chris Bretheron and Hamez Gacefari about the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership for Major Trauma. We then end with New Online. If you'd like to email us, please feel free to do so here.

• Effectiveness of nail bed repair in children with or without replacing the fingernail: NINJA multicentre randomized clinical trial (Jain et al., 2024)

• RCEM - Management of Acute Presentations of Sickle Cell Disease in the ED (PDF) (RCEM, 2024)
• Sickle Cell Society - No One's Listening

• Research priorities for the management of major trauma: an international priority setting partnership with the James Lind Alliance (Bretherton et al., 2024)
• James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership for Major Trauma

• Sudden Visual Loss - Daniel Horner
• Information Sharing to tackle Community Violence - Adrian Boyle
• Cardiac arrest in the pregnant patient - Charlotte Davies, Sophie Windsor