Acute Aortic Syndromes; Roadside to Resus

Paediatric seizures are common, time-critical events and they're something most of us will deal with, whether that's pre-hospital, in the emergency department, or on the ward. They make up around 1–2% of ED attendances, and about 1 in 20 children will have a seizure at some point ...  Show more

Welcome to January's Papers of the Month, which marks 10 years of the podcast! First up, we look at a large multicentre cohort study from the East of England examining the association between prehospital post-intubation hypotension and mortality in severe traumatic brain injury. ...  Show more

To commemorate the 200th episode of the Straight A Nursing podcast, I asked my listeners what they wanted to learn and SO MANY of you said “oncology!” In this episode, we are diving into an oncological emergency, tumor lysis syndrome (TLS). In addition to it being our 200th epis ...  Show more

Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) is a cyanotic congenital heart disease characterized by four key defects - pulmonary stenosis, right ventricular hypertrophy, ventricular septal defect and overriding aorta. In this episode we’ll talk through the physiological consequences of these defe ...  Show more

This week my guest is my lovely friend Sarah Bahar. She has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which is a condition involving deep fatigue, unrefreshing sleep, and a worsening of symptoms after exertion. It is something that people have talked about for a few years and I have had 1 or 2 c ...  Show more

Meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) occurs when the infant breathes in meconium either before, during or after labor. In this episode, we’ll be talking through the four pathophysiologies of MAS, who is at risk, and nursing implications using the Straight A Nursing LATTE method. W ...  Show more