April 2020; papers of the month

The Resus Room

Simon Laing

Science, Emergencymedicine, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Em, Ae

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🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

First we hope you're all well. The world has changed dramatically over the the last few weeks and you are all doing a phenomenal job of providing healthcare under extremely challenging circumstances.

We are determined to add a bit of normality to life with a non-COVID-19 papers of the month, full of bad jokes and some EBM. This month we're looking at intubation of acute alcohol intoxication in ED. We take a look at a paper that tries to quantify the risk of patients developing an intracerebral injury when taking antiplatelets and anticoagulants. Finally we have a look at the value of clinical examination and imaging findings in patients with elevated intracranial pressure, how valuable are individual findings?

Most importantly take care of yourselves and loved ones and keep fighting the good fight!

Simon & Rob

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0:00.0	Welcome to the recess room podcast.
0:03.5	Five, four, three, two, one, fire.
0:11.9	So hi, and welcome back to the recess room podcast.
0:15.5	I'm Simon Lang, and I'm Rob Fenwick.
0:17.9	And this is April's Papers of the Month.
0:23.3	Yes, it is indeed, and it's a little bit weird out there, isn't it, at the moment? I think that's fair to say, Rob. I know we're back
0:27.4	with the normal Papers of the Month, but there is no doubt that the world of healthcare has turned
0:33.0	on its head over the last few weeks. And we're recording this on the 23rd of of March because we do need quite a lot of editing time before it goes out so no doubt it will change a massive amount more but yeah things have really really changed yeah I think it's yeah it's a little bit strange that we are very much operating in the clean zone, in that we're not going to be discussing COVID on this podcast to any more of a degree than to mention at the start, just because with things moving so rapidly, it's, I think, from our perspective, really important that everyone follows central guidance on this and that we don't go looking and instituting things
1:11.7	other than what is being offered from Public Health England in our neck of the woods. And to do
1:16.6	that would probably be irresponsible at this stage. So we are very much toe in the party line and
1:21.7	we would advise you to go and look at exactly what they're recommending rather than go off
1:26.6	peace at this current moment.
1:28.2	I think that would be fair to say, would it not, Simon?
1:30.5	Yeah, I think that's completely fair.
1:32.0	We're definitely not experts on COVID-19, but hopefully we're becoming more expert in following those guidance
1:38.7	and just really working cohesibly altogether.
1:42.1	It's been a pretty amazing time actually to see what healthcare is
1:45.7	like in this country and around the world and couldn't really be any prouder to be part of it
1:51.1	and the fantastic bunch of staff that work for it and that really goes all the way throughout
1:56.9	the team to those non-clinical staff as well, to the domestics, to the people running
2:01.6	the hospital, to obviously the nurses, the clinicians of any variety, shape or form, just a massive
2:08.2	thanks for all that everybody is doing.
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