Happy April! This month for the April 2024 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast Rob and Liz have got two New in EM segments with Andy and Dave looking at ondansetron in ketamine sedation and the use of antibotics in brain injury. We have a Guidelines for EM looking at the management of hyperemesis gravidarum and we have an interview with Vicky Price from the Society of Acute Medicine. We then end with New Online. If you'd like to email us, please feel free to do so here

• New in EM - Review article: Efficacy of prophylactic ondansetron versus placebo or control in reducing vomiting in children undergoing ketamine procedural sedation in the emergency department: A systematic review and meta-analysis (Hudson et al., 2024)

• The Management of Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy and Hyperemesis Gravidarum (Green-top Guideline No. 69)

• Society for Acute Medicine - Podcasts

• Ceftriaxone to prevent early ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients with acute brain injury: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, assessor-masked superiority trial (Dahyot-Fizelier et al., 2024)

• Charlotte Davies - Departmental Handover
• Edward Snelson and Hannah Walsh - Recognising Paediatric Sepsis
• Fatema Jaffer and Riad Hosein - Congenital cardiac disease

Noel and Stephen discuss High-dose versus low-dose intravenous nitroglycerine for sympathetic crashing acute pulmonary edema: a randomised controlled trial

Happy March! This month for the March 2024 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast Rob and Liz have got a New in EM segment with Andy and Dave talking about the use of dexamethasone in migraine. Becky and Chris will then discuss the RCEM and Royal College of Radiologist guidelines for diagnosing thoracic aortic dissection. We then have another New in EM discussing transfusion thresholds in MI, and then end with New Online. If you'd like to email us, please feel free to do so here.

• New in EM - Randomized Trial Comparing Low- vs High-Dose IV Dexamethasone for Patients With Moderate to Severe Migraine (Friedman et al., 2023)
• Steroids (Dexamethasone) for Prevention of Migraine Recurrence - Andy Neill, The NNT

• RCEM and RCR - Diagnosis of Thoracic Aortic Dissection in the ED
• RCEMLearning - January 2024 (Aortic Dissection in ED)

• New in EM - Restrictive or Liberal Transfusion Strategy in Myocardial Infarction and Anemia (Carson et al., 2023)
• RCEMLearning March 2024 (Show Notes)

• Acute Right Heart Failure - Angus Perks, William Kenworthy
• Public Health in the Emergency Department Series #3 - Learning Disability - Olivia Villegas
• Curriculum Quiz: Pharmacology and Poisoning - RCEMLearning Team

Happy February! This month for the February 2024 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast Rob and Liz have got a New in EM segment looking at the use of POCUS for paediatric forearm fracture. Becky and Chris then go over the NICE Guidelines for transient loss of consciousness in the ED. Liz interviews Steve Taylor on the interface between primary and secondary care. We then go to Andy and Dave again looking at delabelling penicillin allergy, before ending it all with New Online. If you'd like to email us, please feel free to do so here.

• New in EM - Ultrasonography or Radiography for Suspected Pediatric Distal Forearm Fractures (Snelling et al., 2023)

• NICE - Transient loss of consciousness ('blackouts') in over 16s
• Reed et al. (2023) - Management of syncope in the Emergency Department: a European prospective cohort study (SEED)

• Dr Steve Taylor (Twitter)
• Doctors' Association UK

• New in EM - Efficacy of a Clinical Decision Rule to Enable Direct Oral Challenge in Patients With Low-Risk Penicillin Allergy: The PALACE Randomized Clinical Trial (Copaescu et al., 2023)

• Measles – Liz Herrieven
• Hypothermic cardiac arrest - Tim Harris and Jonathan M Jones
• Cervical artery dissection - Jason Louis

Happy New Year! This month for the January 2024 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast Rob and Liz have got a New in EM segment looking at the DAShED study examining the diagnosis and investigation of suspected acute aortic section. Becky and Chris then go over the RCEM Guidelines for Invasive Procedures in the ED. We then go to Andy and Dave again looking at non-invasive airway management of the comatose toxicological patient. We then end with New Online. If you'd like to email us, please feel free to do so here.

• New in EM - Diagnosis of Acute Aortic Syndrome in the Emergency Department (DAShED) study: an observational cohort study of people attending the emergency department with symptoms consistent with acute aortic syndrome (McLatchie et al., 2023)
• RCEMLearning Podcast - Aortic Dissection - Andy Neill, Becky Maxwell et al.

• RCEM - Invasive Procedures in the Emergency Department

• New in EM - Effect of Noninvasive Airway Management of Comatose Patients With Acute Poisoning (Freund et al., 2023)

• Aortic Dissection – Gary Cumberbatch
• Blood Transfusion Part 1 – Derek Obiri and Charlotte Davies
• Blood Transfusion Part 2 – Derek Obiri and Charlotte Davies
• RCEMLearning Podcast - Aortic Dissection - Andy Neill, Becky Maxwell et al.

This month for the December 2023 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast we welcome our new co-host Liz Farah. Merry Christmas!. We discuss two New in EM segments looking at overnight boarding of older patients in the ED and mortality and looking at the use of opioids in treating back pain. Rob and Liz discuss two guidelines looking at the management of hypertension in the ED and the investigation and management of cauda equina syndrome. We then end with New Online. If you'd like to email us, please feel free to do so here.

• Overnight Stay in the Emergency Department and Mortality in Older Patients by Roussel et al. (2023)

• Management of hypertensive crisis: British and Irish Hypertension Society Position document
• Getting It Right First Time: National Suspected Cauda Equina Syndrome Pathway (Interactive Pathway)
• Getting It Right First Time: National Suspected Cauda Equina Syndrome Pathway (Full Guideline)

• Opioid analgesia for acute low back pain and neck pain (the OPAL trial): a randomised placebo-controlled trial by Jones et al. (2023)

• RSI in the ED – Charlotte Davies
• Bifascicular Block – Mohd Farooq Parey, Kate Turnbull, Asim Aijaz
• TERN Christmas Cases – Raj Chatha, Gov Oliver, Fraser Birse, Rory Anderson, Hridesh Chatha

This month for the November 2023 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast we've got a New in EM segment looking at the INTERACT3 trial looking at blood pressure targets following intracerebral haemorrhage. We then have Becky and Chris discussing the British Thoracic Society's new guidance on spontaneous pneumothorax. We then listen to Nikki Abela and Damian Roland talking about PERUKI, and then listen to Dave Clarke's experiences working in the Ukraine. We then end with New Online. If you'd like to email us, please feel free to do so here.

• The third Intensive Care Bundle with Blood Pressure Reduction in Acute Cerebral Haemorrhage Trial (INTERACT3): an international, stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial (Ma et al., 2023)

• BTS Guidelines for Pleural Disease
• CONservative versus Standard carE for primary spontaneous PneumoThorax (CONSEPT)
• Conservative Management in Traumatic Pneumothoraces in the Emergency Department (CoMiTED): A Randomised Controlled Trial

• PERUKI

• UK-MED
• Medical Aid for Palestinians
• Medicins Sans Frontieres - Gaza-Israel War

• Samuel Jonathan Glover, James Raitt, Tim Wait, Rebekah Caseley – Cardiac Arrest – the ALS algorithm and beyond
• Balaji Dorani – Soft Tissue Injuries of the Hand
• Olivia Villegas – Public Health in the Emergency Department Series #2

This month Susie and Raj discuss a paper called You may think that the consultants are great, and they know everything, but they don't, exploring how new emergency medicine consultants experience uncertainty. And then in the 2nd part of this months podcast Noel and Stephen discuss a systematic review called Why is pain management so difficult in the emergency department