Acute Behavioural Disturbance; Roadside to Re...

This episode is an absolute cracker! And we can say that as we've got outsider help... We've all been involved with patients where securing the airway with a prehospital anaesthetic feels intuitively right; the patient with a severe head injury after a fall from height, the unres ...  Show more

Welcome back to February's Papers of the Month! We start this month looking a the right place to perform a prehospital anaesthetic. Traditionally we've been taught it should be somewhere with 360-degree access to allow the greatest safety, which means intubating in an ambulance a ...  Show more

Previous Doctor Informed episodes have discussed how to prevent patient safety issues from occurring, but sometimes situations are beyond anyone's control - like COVID. It can be hard to look back, especially if difficult decisions and compromises were made, including ones we di ...  Show more

In this episode of The Saving Lives Podcast, we delve into the compelling findings of a recent review on the adverse effects of physical restraint use in ICUs. We discuss the paradoxical nature of restraints, designed for patient safety but linked to significant complications, in ...  Show more

Today’s guest, Dr. Aviva Romm, has been referred to as “the face of natural medicine in the 21st century by Prevention Magazine.”

She’s a Yale-trained, board-certified physician with a specialty in wo ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a grim reminder that infectious diseases have been a danger throughout human history–so much so that the threat of infection has actually helped shape human evolution. Disgust, wariness of strangers, cultural norms around food and cleanliness–all of these ...  Show more