The Podcasts of the Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care
Home of the Official Podcasts of the RNZCUC - these are intended to provide ongoing education for medical professionals and should not be used for self diagnosis. Always consult your regular doctor. Always work within your scope of practice.
Episodes
There are a few Hutchinson's signs, but this one relates to Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus.
Check out the StatPearls page on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus
Minor M, Payne E. Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus. [Updated 2023 Aug 14]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2025 Jan-.
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How do you remove an embedded fishhook?
Check out the ALIEM page by Dr Riveros, Dr Kim and Dr Dyer
Check out the AAFP article by Dr Gammons and Dr Jackson
Link to the UpToDate page (subscription required)
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We can diagnose a TFCC injury clinically. Management is much like any sprain, but ongoing issues may need a hand surgeon workup.
Check out the OrthoBullets page by Dr Abassi and Dr Vitale
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Testing for dysdiadochokinesia is simple, and something we learned way back at the start of medical training. But it is a useful and important test to still do in urgent care
Check out the Stat Pearls Page
Rocha Cabrero F, De Jesus O. Dysdiadochokinesia. [Updated 2023 Aug 23]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2025 Jan-.
Onychomycosis is not an urgent condition, but it can present through urgent care.
Check out the recent BPAC page, reviewed by Prof Amanda Oakley
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This week, we chat with Khang Gan and Erin Carn-Bennett from MedSim Solutions.
We discuss psychologically safe simulations and how they can benefit practice. We discuss the benefits of in-house resus simulations and how these can be achieved in urgent care. We also discussed a 4-hour in-house paediatric resus course that they run, which is endorsed as a resus refresher with the College.
It is important to check for hyphaema, blood in the anterior chamber of the eye, after trauma. It is also important to use a slit lamp to check for microhyphaema.
Check out Urgent Bite 162 on Seidel's test
Check out Urgent Bite 163 on Hypopyon
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ANZAC day prompts us to reflect on the past.
As clinicians, reflective practice is a necessary part of our ongoing learning and development. However, reflecting is not just for our clinical practice.
Check out details of the Te Papa exhibition - Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War.
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How can we avoid errors associated with cognitive biases? In retrospect, we can easily see these biases unfold, but how can we identify them as they happen?
Check out the paper mentioned
Croskerry P. Achieving quality in clinical decision making: cognitive strategies and detection of bias. Acad Emerg Med. 2002 Nov;9(11):1184-204. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2002.tb01574.x. PMID: 12414468.
Norman G, Pelaccia T, Wyer ...
A tip to ensure you align the vermilion border accurately.
Check out the Laceration Repair blog page
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Do you use colchicine for acute gout flares? Are you aware of the risk factors for toxicity?
Check out the Prescriber update for March 2025
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What is the knee to wall test and what does it measure?
Check out the Physiopaedia page on the Knee to Wall Test
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Do you establish the patient agenda at each consultation?
Singh Ospina N, Phillips KA, Rodriguez-Gutierrez R, Castaneda-Guarderas A, Gionfriddo MR, Branda ME, Montori VM. Eliciting the Patient's Agenda- Secondary Analysis of Recorded Clinical Encounters. J Gen Intern Med. 2019 Jan;34(1):36-40. doi: 10.1007/s11606-018-4540-5. Epub 2018 Jul 2. PMID: 29968051; PMCID: PMC6318197.
An eponym named after the patient.
Check out the Ortho Bullets Page by Dr M Steffes and Dr C Ahmad
Check out these two videos from YouTube by The Physio Channel and Sports Med review showing two ways to examine the Ulna Collateral ligament of the Elbow
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What conditions should we consider in hair professionals?
Check out the papers mentioned
Al Shenawi H, Al Saad S, Al Shenawi N, Al Rumaihi N, Salmeen Z, Al Sadeh N, Alfehaid AM, Alshelali M, Bin-Jabr MA, Alzeyadi HA, Daoud RM. Prevalence of interdigital pilonidal sinus in hair professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2025 Jan;22(1):31-36. doi: 10.1080/15459624.2024.2420984. Epub 2...
Seeing Bitot's spots is pathognomic of vitamin A deficiency.
Check out the papers mentioned
Song P, Adeloye D, Li S, Zhao D, Ye X, Pan Q, Qiu Y, Zhang R, Rudan I; Global Health Epidemiology Research Group (GHERG). The prevalence of vitamin A deficiency and its public health significance in children in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and modelling analysis. J Glob Health. 2023 Aug 11;13:04084. Link
Professor James Reason was the originator of the Swiss Cheese model which has been an important model in developing ways to improve patient safety and reduce adverse events in healthcare.
Reason J. Human error: models and management. BMJ. 2000 Mar 18;320(7237):768-70. doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7237.768. PMID: 10720363; PMCID: PMC1117770. Link to paper
What is a sentinel headache before a SAH and could they help us pick up earlier on a diagnosis in urgent care?
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The ICHD - 3 link that described the sentinel headache
Wan Z, Meng H, Xu N, Liu T, Chen Z, Sun Y, Wang H. Clinical characteristics associated with sentinel headache in patients with unruptured intracranial aneurysms. Interv Neuroradiol. 2021 Aug;27(4):497-502. doi: 10.1177/159101992097197...
How long do grommets take to fall out?
Check out the papers mentioned
Song CM, Park MH, Kim YH, Lee JH. Factors affecting the extrusion rate of ventilation tubes. Clin Exp Otorhinolaryngol. 2010 Jun;3(2):70-5. doi: 10.3342/ceo.2010.3.2.70. Epub 2010 Jun 30. PMID: 20607075; PMCID: PMC2896736.
Lin YC, Kao YL, Chen YC, Chen LC, Dang LH, Hung SH. Factors Related to Ventilation Tube Extrusion Time in Children and Adults....
You might think that neck pain after minor trauma is probably a musculoskeletal injury. But do not forget to consider vertebral artery dissection.
Check out the Stat Pearls page.
Britt TB, Agarwal S. Vertebral Artery Dissection. [Updated 2023 Mar 20]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2025 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK441827/
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