Welcome to the Recess Room podcast.

Five, four, three, two, one, fire.

So hi, and welcome back to the Recess Room podcast. I'm Simon Lang.

And I am Rob Fenwick.

And this is July's Papers of the Month. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

We have got three really, really good papers actually. We're going to be running through

Ultrasound and pneumothoroses. We're going to be talking a bit about CT scans. And when you're

seating ahead, whether or not we should be including facial bones as well. And we're going to wrap up with whether or not a bogey should be used for all ed intubations.

Okay, and big thanks to our sponsors our Pract for making this all possible.

So, without further ado, let's crack on with the podcast.

Right, paper number one then.

Ultrasound and pneumothoroses. Something you see match

of, Rob? No, not a huge amount, actually, to be fair. I don't see it done on a frequent

basis where I work. I'm certainly aware of it being big in the literature, and I'm certainly

aware of there being places that do it really regularly. But it's not really something that we

tend to do up in our

region that much or not in my trust anyway. So are you doing a lot of it down where you are?

To see a reasonable amount of it actually, and there are definitely some experts when it comes

to ultrasound, including chest and cardiac around where I work. So no, it is something actually

that see a reasonable amount of and definitely something I'm trying to get better at.

So this paper sort of sparked a bit of interest. So published in the EMJ, lead author was Thomas Sauter, and the title of paper, detection of pneumothoracies in patients with multiple blunt trauma, use and limitations of eFAST. So really it's a paper that

as it says is trying to look at how good, how accurate it is to perform a lung ultrasound to have

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