General BroadCAST

This month we take a look at a paediatric condition...Bronchiolitis. We discuss the pathophysiology of the disease, how paramedics and ambulance staff can assess and manage these c...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are an extremely common presentation to both primary and secondary care services. The term UTI encompasses a wide range of clinical conditions so we...

This month we're tackling Failure: the difficult decisions, the awkward conversations but also the improvement and learning that can come out of it....

Becoming a mentor can be a bit of a mixed bag. Some trusts may insist their mentors sit a module on the topic at level 6 or higher, where as others may not even require them to hav...

Cocaine might be a drug you associate with the 1980s, however, a 2018 audit found that it was still the 2nd most used recreational drug within the UK. Deaths associated with cocain...

Affecting an estimated 80% of the population at some time in their lives, Lower back pain is a common presentation to ambulance crews. Often this will be muscular in origin, howeve...

This is the Second part of our 2 part mini series looking at Road Traffic Collision. In this episode we put your questions to Adam Barrow, head of collision research at TRL. Is c...

In this Episode we speak to Adam Barrow the head of collision research for TRL. Adam talks to us about how he and his team assess the scenes of Road Traffic Collisions, how car saf...

Every year in England and wales 1.4 million people attend A+E with a head injury, this makes up just over 6.5% of the presentations that Emergency departments see with 20% of them ...

Logical Fallacies have been documented as far back as ancient greece. For over 2000 years we have been making logical errors, and in modern day paramedic practice, these errors in ...

This year, students are registering in unprecedentedly difficult times which is bound to lead to some anxieties. In this episode we discuss 10 bits of advice we wish we'd been tol...

In this episode we discuss Transient loss of Conciousness. The presentations, assessments involved and potential causes, as well as some case studies we've encountered in our pract...