Podcast From St Mungo's

Eoghan and Alasdair discuss the current dilemmas in fluid resuscitation in septic patients. Despite many research studies over the past 15 years, many questions still exist: what are the ideal endpoints for volume resuscitation?; what are the best fluids to give?; and when and how to start vasopressors?. Alasdair covers what we know and what we don’t, and how we might get the right answers.

Dr Arun Sayal is an Emergency Physician from Toronto with a keen interest in orthopaedics. He has run a fracture clinic in his hospital for 12 years and assists the orthopaedic surgeons in theatre. In this episode, Arun shares some of the tips and pearls he has learned from the orthopaedic specialists, which will guide emergency physicians to better manage cases that are ‘common, commonly missed, and commonly mismanaged’.

Dr Jim Ducanto is an anaesthetist from the USA and founder of the SALAD technique, a stepwise approach to intubating the heavily soiled/bloody airway. In this episode, Eoghan and Jim discuss the background to, and the fundamentals of, the procedure. Plus, there’s a special offer for St Mungo’s listeners at the end.

In this episode, Eoghan discusses all things ‘Tissue Donation in the Emergency Dept’ with Neil Healy and Dr Sonja Allen: when to consider; what can be donated; steps to take; communication with families; what happens after the body leaves the ED; and a whole lot more

In this episode, Eoghan discusses all things ‘Tissue Donation in the Emergency Dept’ with Neil Healy and Dr Sonja Allen: when to consider; what can be donated; steps to take; communication with families; what happens after the body leaves the ED; and a whole lot more