December 2021; papers of the month
The Resus Room
Simon Laing
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🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to December's paper of the month podcast!
In the first paper this month we take a look at a paper that assesses the utility of CT scans for patients presenting with fever of an unknown origin; could this help us identify the source more frequently and if so how often?
Next, we often focus on the specific of medical management in cardiac arrest, but what impact does witnessing a cardiac arrest have on bystanders and could this affect the way we interact and behave on scene?
Lastly we consider those patients that require a prehospital anaesthetic following return of spontaneous circulation from a medical cardiac arrest. Does the choice of induction agent between midazolam and ketamine affect the likelihood of hypotension and other complications?
Once again we'd love to hear any thoughts or feedback either on the website or via twitter @TheResusRoom.
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. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Simon Lang. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm Rob Fenwick. |
| 0:17.7 | And this is December 2021's Papers of the Month. |
| 0:22.1 | It is indeed, Simon, and it is chilly out there today. |
| 0:25.1 | So we're actually getting a season this year, which is fantastic. |
| 0:28.3 | What would we do without this standard weather update, eh, Rob? |
| 0:31.7 | Absolutely, mate, absolutely. |
| 0:33.2 | But let me update you on more because prepping for this has given me an awesome excuse to get out of any Christmas planning. |
| 0:39.3 | So thanks to each and every one of you for listening and giving me at least a semi-valid excuse to dodge that bullet. |
| 0:45.9 | Well, anyway, we have got three papers for you and they are absolute belters, as always. |
| 0:50.9 | So we are going to be looking at cardiovascular complications of pre-hospital |
| 0:55.2 | anaesthesia and that is comparing a ketamine-based and a madazelam-based induction protocol. |
| 1:01.3 | I am bringing you a really interesting paper about the psychological impact of bystander CPR |
| 1:07.1 | and finally we're going to be looking at how useful a CT is when you can't find a source |
| 1:13.6 | or a fever so hopefully that'll do us absolutely that's definitely going to get all the radiologists |
| 1:18.2 | excited about that idea of extra scanning in our emergency department so welcome to you all |
| 1:22.8 | i must say rob it's quite difficult to concentrate though isn't it because it's not long |
| 1:27.1 | until our recess room Christmas night out. |
| 1:29.6 | I've got the outfit picked in the background there. |
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