Breaking Bad News; Roadside to Resus
The Resus Room
Simon Laing
4.9 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Being involved in Emergency Care, by it's very nature, sadly means that we will have to break bad news to patients and families both in the prehospital & in-hospital setting.
Breaking bad news well has benefits to both the recipient of that news and also to the provider delivering it. Teaching and education on the topic can be difficult to access and not always prioritised.
In this episode we run through some of the evidence around breaking bad news, techniques and structures to follow and talk about the practicalities of adopting these, along with our own varied personal thoughts and styles.
We hope listening to the podcast gives you an opportunity to reflect on how we could all work and improve on breaking bad news and also helps to make the process a little bit easier.
Once again we'd love to hear any thoughts or feedback either on the website or via twitter @TheResusRoom.
Enjoy!
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. |
| 0:12.1 | So hi, and welcome back to the recess room podcast. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Simon Lang. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm Rob Fenwick. |
| 0:18.0 | And I'm James Hayes. |
| 0:19.1 | And we're back with another episode of Roadside to Reesus and this time we're going to be talking about breaking bad news. |
| 0:27.5 | Oh yes I absolutely love it when we do topics like this boys because it is such a critical skill to be able to do and to be able to perform, that the impact is probably actually more |
| 0:37.9 | than many of the clinical skills we use, |
| 0:39.9 | but it is not really the focus of many of the undergraduate training programs |
| 0:44.0 | that we see, certainly for the clinicians that work in my ED. |
| 0:47.0 | So I'm hoping this is going to be super useful to all the listeners out there |
| 0:50.6 | because it has been super useful for me preparing for it. |
| 0:53.9 | Yep, I'm really, really looking forward to chatting around this subject and it certainly |
| 0:57.6 | generated a lot of interest on Twitter and the social media channels. So yeah, I agree. |
| 1:02.4 | Really, really looking forward to just finding out about our individual experiences and kind |
| 1:06.5 | of working out what best practice looks like. |
| 1:08.9 | Excellent. Well, before we get into it, a big thanks once again to SJ. |
| 1:12.7 | Trem, the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, |
| 1:17.1 | who partner with us on this podcast and make this all free and open access and available to you. |
| 1:23.1 | So make sure you go and check out their journal, which publishes articles, |
| 1:26.7 | which again again or free |
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