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The Resus Room

March 2026; papers of the month

The Resus Room

Simon Laing

Medicine, Science, Health & Fitness

4.9708 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

March's Papers of the Month is here and we've got three absolute crackers to get stuck into.

First up, we head prehospital to explore pseudo-pulseless electrical activity. This review challenges us to rethink how we approach organised electrical activity without a pulse. We discuss the role of POCUS, the concept of treating profound shock rather than "arrest," and what this means for decision-making and management.

Next, we move to cardiac arrest physiology with a systematic review examining intra-arrest diastolic blood pressure and coronary perfusion pressure. We take a look at the proposed thresholds, the heterogeneity in the evidence, and whether haemodynamic-guided resuscitation is ready for prime time.

Finally, we dive into airway nuance with a brand new taxonomy of performance errors in hyperangulated video laryngoscopy. We've covered a very similar paper before on standard geometry VL which was incredibly useful and this looks to do just the same for the alternative technique required with a hyperangulated device. We explore the microskills, the common errors, and what this means for how we train, feedback and improve our emergency intubations.

Once again we'd love to hear any thoughts or feedback either on the website or via X @TheResusRoom!

Simon & Rob

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the recess room podcast.

0:03.5

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

0:12.5

So hi, and welcome back to the recess room podcast.

0:15.5

I'm Simon Lang.

0:16.8

And I'm Rob Fenwick.

0:18.0

And this is March 2026's Papers of the Month.

0:22.1

Yes, it certainly is, thank goodness.

0:24.5

A little bit of sunshine.

0:25.9

It has been a long winter up here in the Northern Hemisphere, hasn't it?

0:29.8

Simon Lang.

0:30.9

But anyway, I think it's time for us to spring into this month's papers.

0:35.4

See what I did there?

0:36.3

I didn't actually.

0:38.9

I'm grateful for the prompt.

0:44.6

Unbelievable. It's a really painful experience in making you prompt people for laughter at your gags. But anyway, it's fine. We'll move on. I wonder if we should put a little bell or something

0:48.8

on the podcast when it signifies that a joke is being told and everyone can prepare themselves

0:53.2

to support us in a moral

0:54.7

capacity. It feels like you shouldn't need to do that. But okay, I mean, maybe we'll try it. We'll try it. Anyway, I want to crack on with this because it is a good episode we've got planned. And you've actually planned it out. You're taking us on a journey through cardiac arrest, aren't you?

1:09.9

We're going to use

1:10.5

paper one as a

1:11.3

springboard

1:12.0

is what you described

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