Advancing Cardiac Arrest Care, SPEAR; Roadside to Resus
The Resus Room
Simon Laing
4.9 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
This is a pretty special episode! If you're involved in cardiac arrest management or care of critically unwell patients then there's some ground breaking practice we'll be discussing with the two founders of the SPEAR course;
Jon Barratt;
- Lt Col, British Army
- Emergency Medicine and PHEM Consultant, University Hospitals of the North Midlands
- Clinical Lead - Research and Clinical Innovation, Yorkshire Air Ambulance
- MERIT Consultant, West Midlands Ambulance Service
- Senior Lecturer, Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine
Paul Rees;
- Surgeon Commander Royal Navy
- Consultant, East Anglian Air Ambulance & Barts Heart Centre
- Lead for Resuscitation Barts Health NHS Trust
- Reader in Cardiology & Resuscitation, University of St Andrews & QMUL London
- Defence Lead for Endovascular Resuscitation
- SPEAR co-founder
Ultimately in the episode we navigate through to the delivery of endovascular resuscitation both pre and in-hospital, building on the fundamentals of care and logistics which enable its delivery. We'll be covering;
- Blood pressure monitoring both invasive and non-invasive, the evidence and the cohort of patients we should be targeting with invasive blood pressure monitoring
- Delivering complex medical interventions in unpredictable circumstances and environments
- Balancing the benefits of interventions with time required and workflow
- REBOA for medical arrests, the theory and the ERICA trial
- Improving recognition of ROSC
- The SPEAR course
- How to prepare services and departments for upcoming advances in resuscitation
There is something for everyone in here and a huge thanks to Jon and Paul for their time. Make sure to check out the links to the papers discussed in the episode below.
Once again we'd love to hear any thoughts or feedback either on the website or via X @TheResusRoom!
Simon, Rob & James
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the recess room podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | Five, four, three, two, one, fire. |
| 0:12.3 | So hi, and welcome back to the recess room podcast. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Simon Lang. |
| 0:16.9 | And I'm James Yates. |
| 0:18.2 | And yes, that does mean the third member of the gang is missing. He's off apparently creating an extrication course, which seems like a reasonable excuse, but sadly he won't be here to join us for this episode, will he? He won't know, but you're right. He has got a reasonable excuse. I mean, if he's actually indeed doing that, maybe he's sunning himself on a beach somewhere. We think he's working, but we have replaced him, though, with two outstanding clinicians |
| 0:43.0 | that we're going to hear from him in a bit. |
| 0:44.3 | So I don't feel too bad that he's taking this month off. |
| 0:47.3 | No, and this is our last roadside to recess before our summer break, but it is an absolute |
| 0:53.0 | belter. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm sure you can be listening to it |
| 0:55.5 | several times on those sun loungers when you get a chance to go on holiday. So before we get |
| 1:01.4 | into it, a huge thanks to Zol Medical Corporation for collaborating with us on the podcast and making |
| 1:07.0 | this all free open access and available to you in their pursuits of excellent patient care. |
| 1:13.8 | And we also look forward to seeing a load of you in London for our live Roadside to Recess in October. |
| 1:20.1 | So without further ado, let's crack in to the episode. |
| 1:26.1 | Okay, well, we've said this already, but this really is a pretty special episode because if you're involved in cardiac arrest management or care of critically unwell patients, either in the pre-hospital arena or in hospital, then there's some groundbreaking practice we'll be discussing with the two founders of |
| 1:46.3 | the Speer course on this episode. Yeah, and I cannot wait to hear from them, but just before we get |
| 1:51.6 | into that, let's have a little think about what we're going to be covering. So ultimately, |
| 1:55.5 | we're going to be navigating through to the delivery of endovascular resuscitation, |
| 2:00.0 | both in the pre-hospital and in hospital |
| 2:02.0 | settings, building on the fundamentals of care and logistics, which enable the really complex |
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