The Podcasts of the Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care

Dr Emily Amos is a GP who founded Whole Hearted Medicine following an episode of career burnout.  This company provides CPD retreats with a focus on wellbeing education.  

This has been endorsed as a CPD activity for RNZCUC members.  

 

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Read about some of the evidence related to this area

 

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This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals.  Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times.  For personal medical advice, always consult your usual doctor

Research is essential for establishing best practice.  More urgent care specific research will enable best practice to be established for patients attending urgent care clinics with urgent conditions.  

If you're interested in joining the College's Urgent Care Research Network, check this link - https://rnzcuc.org.nz/urgent-care-research-network/ 

Save the date for the College's Bootcamp, which will incorporate a Research Network meeting - https://rnzcuc.org.nz/bootcamp-and-fellowship-ceremony-2026/ 

 

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This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals.  Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times.  For personal medical advice, always consult your usual doctor

An epistaxis can be severe enough that a patient becomes anaemic and develops shock.  How good are estimations, by patients and clinicians, of blood loss during an epistaxis?

 

Check out the papers mentioned

Townend ML, Byers S. Visual estimation of blood loss by UK pre-hospital clinicians: an observational study. Br Paramed J. 2018 Jun 1;3(1):16-22. doi: 10.29045/14784726.2018.06.3.1.16. PMID: 33328801; PMCID: PMC7706754.

Link

Beer HL, Duvvi S, Webb CJ, Tandon S. Blood loss estimation in epistaxis scenarios. J Laryngol Otol. 2005 Jan;119(1):16-8. doi: 10.1258/0022215053222752. PMID: 15807956.

Link

Grigg, Sarah, Maunder, John, Betz-Stablein, Brigid, Llewellyn, Stacey, 2020, Reliability of estimating blood loss in epistaxis, Australian Journal of Otolaryngology; Vol 3 (May 2020): Australian Journal of Otolaryngology, 2020

Link

 

 

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This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals.  Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times.  For personal medical advice, always consult your usual doctor

Developmental Dysplasia of the Hips (DDH) in newborns is screened for by midwives, Plunket nurses, and GPs.  While not a routine part of UC practice, spotting signs and referring appropriately is something we should be aware of in urgent care.  

 

Check out the StarshipHospital page on DDH

 

Check out the OrthoBullets page on DDH

 

 

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[email protected]

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Full Grip by Score Squad

 

This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals.  Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times.  For personal medical advice, always consult your usual doctor

The Jahss Manoeuvre is a technique used for reducing metacarpal neck fractures with unacceptable volar angulation.  

Check out the original paper by Dr S. Jahss

JAHSS, S. A.. FRACTURES OF THE METACARPALS: A New Method of Reduction and Immobilization. The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery 20(1):p 178-186, January 1938.
 

Check out the OrthoBullets page on Metacarpal fractures, by Dr J Blomberg

 

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This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals.  Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times.  For personal medical advice, always consult your usual doctor