Welcome to the Recess Room podcast.

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

First of all, it's really, really powerful to think about where you are, isn't it?

This is the Royal College of Surins of Edinburgh.

This is a 500-year-old institution that's really

been a trailblazer not just in surgical practice but across emergency medicine and

pre-hospital emergency medicine. And here we are recording a podcast in the president's room.

So as Rod McKenzie has just told you there, we're here in Edinburgh at the inaugural Faculty

of Pre-Hospital Care Scientific

Conference sat in the salubrious Presidents' Room at the Royal College.

We're really fortunate to be asked by Caroline Leach to come along on a podcast at this conference,

which has been a fantastic celebration of pre-hospital care and has really demonstrated the rapid

evolution of such an exciting and dynamic specialty. So we have got only a handful of the

fantastic speakers that have been here at the conference. They're going to share with us some of the

pearls of wisdom from their talks.

Make sure you go and have a look at the website afterwards because there are some links

to the documents and the research that's ongoing that's referenced in the podcast.

So first up then we've got Matt Thomas who is going to talk to us about hypoxia.

Now Matt is a consultant in intensive care and anaesthetics at Bristol.

He's also my mighty leader at Great Western Air Ambulance as our clinical lead.

So Matt's got a very keen interest in oxygen and hyperoxia in particular.

So he's going to describe to us why too much oxygen is bad.

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