The St.Emlyn's Podcast

Ep 95 - Burnout in Critical Care with Liz Crowe

Iain (@docib) and Liz (@LizCrowe2) discuss one of the hottest topics in medicine - Burnout. What is it, who gets it and what can we do about it? Liz brings her huge knowledge and experience to a topic that is often discussed, but not always understood. Essential listening.

Ep 96 - Everybody's free - Top Tips for the Class of 2017

It's that time of year again, where we get new colleagues in the Emergency Department (and across lots of other areas of the hospital too).

These are some of the top tips  for new starters (and life in the ED in general) gathered from the senior medical and nursing team at Virchester (South).

More induction guidance and education available at http://stemlynsblog.org/induction/

Oh. And one tip we left out - always wear sunscreen.

With thanks (and apologies) to Baz Luhrmann.

Ep 106 - Debriefing in Critical Care with Liz Crowe

In this episode, the fabulous Liz Crowe (@LizCrowe2) discusses how to approach debriefing after critical (and non critical) incidents in healthcare. We focus on the debriefing that takes place 5-7 days after an incident. For more on a "hot" debrief listen to this podcast by Ashley Liebig and Rob Orman 

Ep 124 - Human factors, technology and humanity in critical care with Peter Brindley

This podcast was recorded at the Intensive Care Society State of the Art meeting in London 2018. Simon Carley interviews Prof Peter Brindley on the interface of technology, humans and humanity in critical care. The audio was recorded live and at the venue so there is a fair bit of background noise, but we hope that this does not distract from a wide ranging and fascinating podcast.

 

Ep 133 - February 2019 Round Up

Our regular monthly round up of the best of the blog from Feb 2019.

Ep 135 - April 2019 Round Up

Here is the latest from the St Emlyn's team

 

Ep 139 - May 2019 Round Up

Our regular monthly round up, this month with Ian and Simon chatting through the best of the blog.

The power of peer review: https://www.stemlynsblog.org/smacc2019-the-power-of-peer-review/

Virtual reality in PED: https://www.stemlynsblog.org/jc-virtual-reality-for-distraction-from-paediatric-procedural-pain/

Wellbeing for the broken: https://www.stemlynsblog.org/wellbeing-for-the-broken-part-3-the-podcast-st-emlyns/ 

Traumatic cardiac arrest https://www.stemlynsblog.org/wellbeing-for-the-broken-part-3-the-podcast-st-emlhttps://www.stemlynsblog.org/jc-should-we-use-chest-compressions-in-traumatic-cardiac-arrest-st-emlyns/

Should we cardiovert AF in the ED or wait? https://www.stemlynsblog.org/should-we-rapidly-cardiovert-af-in-the-ed-st-emlyns/ 

Prolonged field care in the ED https://www.stemlynsblog.org/prolonged-field-care-in-the-ed/

Keppra or Phenytoin for status epilepticus in kids https://www.stemlynsblog.org/jc-enter-sandman-which-agent-as-second-line-in-paediatric-status-epilepticus/ 

Ep 141 - June 2019 Round Up

Here's our regular round up of the blog and podcast from June 2019.

 

Beyond ATLS https://www.stemlynsblog.org/beyond-atls-with-alan-grayson-at-stemlynslive-st-emlyns/

Traumatic Cardiac Arrest https://www.stemlynsblog.org/traumatic-cardiac-arrest-tca-podcast-with-prof-jason-smith-rn-st-emlyns/

The psychological impact of emergency medicine https://www.stemlynsblog.org/how-events-in-emergency-medicine-impact-doctors-psychological-well-being-st-emlyns/

Can we use IO aspirate for analysis https://www.stemlynsblog.org/jc-can-we-really-use-io-blood-for-analysis-st-emlyns/

Don't forget the Bubbles conference and site https://dontforgetthebubbles.com/ 

Ep 158 - Understanding Fear and Anxiety around COVID19 with Liz Crowe

The world is consumed by the Coronavirus pandemic, but how do we look after ourselves? Liz and Iain discuss some strategies to stay well over the coming weeks and months. Recorded on 25th March 2020.

Ep 178 - Surviving the Second Wave with Liz Crowe (October 2020)

In this special edition of the podcast, Liz Crowe discusses with Iain how we can find contentment, despite the relentless nature of COVID19 and the impending second wave. She gives practical, realistic advice that everyone can consider and encourages us all to be kind to ourselves in these strange and difficult times. 

Ep 204 - August 2022 Round Up

This is our round up of all that happened on the St Emlyn's blog in August 2022 (yes - we know it's a bit late, but there's been a lot going on!).

Listen to Simon and Iain discuss the latest therapies in COVID, particularly Baricitinib, calcium in trauma and how we find balance in our work-life blend.

Please do like and subscribe to the podcast and tell your friends and colleagues. We've lots of exciting stuff coming your way over the next few months.

Ep 207 - Burnout with Liz Crowe

Burnout is a term that seems to be used a lot these days, but what does it really mean? In this episode Dr Liz Crowe explains all, and will almost certainly change the way you view burnout. 

Liz, who be well known to St Emyn's audiences, has just completed her PhD on "Understanding the risk and protective factors for burnout and wellbeing of staff working in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit: PICU staff wellbeing" and has an unrivalled real world and evidence based experience of what these terms really mean.

In this first in a special series Liz goes into depth describing not only what burnout is, but how it can be measured (and the limitations of this) and most importantly how this is a system issue and not a diagnosis.

In the next episode we will discuss another commonly used term 'wellbeing'.

We think this series is incredibly important and hope you will help us share it far and wide. You can read the accompanying blogpost here.

Ep 208 - What is Wellbeing with Liz Crowe

Wellbeing is very complex, as it is an individual construct that is strongly aligned and interpreted through a lens of personal values, philosophy, culture, faith, and goals for life. Most importantly, wellbeing is dynamic rather than homeostatic and a subjective state determined by the individual.

Yet we use the term wellbeing to describe a wide variety of different things (often in terms of being the opposite of burnout which it most certainly isn't). 

In this second episode of our series Liz Crowe discusses in detail what the literature says about wellbeing and how we may be able to use this going forward.

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Ep 209 - November and December 2022 Round Up

A special double edition covering the blog posts from November and December and more. We discuss evidence based medicine with the DoseVF trial, and more from RECOVERY, discussion about 'what is downtime' and how we organise follow up for patients who don't live in our area and what happened at the amazing London Trauma Conference

We also announced some of the plans for StEmlynsWILD. Look out for booking details and more in the coming weeks.