The St.Emlyn’s Podcast
A UK based Emergency Medicine podcast for anyone who works in emergency care. The St Emlyn ’s team are all passionate educators and clinicians who strive to bring you the best evidence based education. Our four pillars of learning are evidence-based medicine, clinical excellence, personal development and the philosophical overview of emergency care. We have a strong academic faculty and reputation for high quality education presented through multimedia platforms and articles. St Emlyn’s is a name given to a fictionalised emergency care system. This online clinical space is designed to allow clinical care to be discussed without compromising the safety or confidentiality of patients or clinicians.
Episodes
Recorded at the BASICS Pre-Hospital Care Conference at Sketchley Grange, this episode explores one of the most experimental tools in civilian trauma care — the abdominal aortic and junctional tourniquet. Dr Ed Barnard joins us to discuss why this device was developed, how it works, and where it might — just might — save lives when all other options have failed.
The conversation traces the problem of non-compressible haemorrhage, th...
In this episode of the St Emlyn's Podcast, Iain and Simon discuss the latest updates in emergency medicine during the hot UK summer. They discuss the latest research and content from the St Emlyns blog, touching on topics like serotonin syndrome, the impact of the new urgent and emergency care plan in the UK, and the use of salbutamol as an analgesic for renal colic.
They also highlight the growing issue of nitazenes, a new class o...
Iain and Simon return after a brief hiatus to discuss key blog posts from April and May on the St Emlyn's Podcast. They highlight notable conferences including IncrEMentum 2025 in Spain, The Big Sick in Zermatt, and the BASICs Conference.
Discussions cover content from recent emergency medicine research, the importance of compassion and patient-centred care, and operational strategies to avoid emergency department overcrowding. In...
In this episode of the St Emlyn's Podcast, Iain Beardsell and Simon Carley revisit January's blog posts and podcasts, covering several seminal studies relevant to emergency and pre-hospital care.
Topics include the Sub 30 Feasibility Study on pre-hospital ECMO, comparisons of pre-hospital versus in-hospital emergency anaesthesia, variations in maintenance of pre-hospital anaesthesia in trauma patients, and the effectiveness of phy...
In this special edition of the St Emlyn’s podcast, Iain Beardsell and Simon Carley review the top medical papers of 2024, originating from Simon’s talk at The Big Sick conference in Zermatt. The discussion includes a comparison of non-invasive versus arterial pressure monitoring, the association of intra-arrest arterial blood pressure with ROSC, the efficacy of serratus anterior plane blocks for rib fracture management, and the eva...
Join hosts Iain Beardsell and Natalie May at the London Trauma Conference as they welcome Peter Brindley back to the St Emlyn’s podcast. In this engaging episode, they delve into the nuances of social media, digital footprints, and the burgeoning influence of artificial intelligence in medicine. Brindley discusses the importance of maintaining an authentic digital presence and addresses the impact of misinformation and disinformati...
In this episode of the St Emlyn's podcast, Iain Beardsell and Simon Carley reflect on their experiences at recent conferences, including the IncrEMentuM 2025 and The Big Sick. They discuss the exceptional quality and innovative formats of presentations at IncrEMentuM, emphasizing the enthusiasm and positive atmosphere. The discussion also covers key emergency medicine topics from February's blog posts, including the maintenance of ...
In this episode of the St. Emlyn's podcast, hosts Iain Beardsell and Natalie May discuss hyperbaric medicine at the London Trauma Conference with Dr. Jeff Kerrie, an internal medicine physician from Canada. Dr. Kerrie provides insights into dive and hyperbaric medicine, covering the basics of hyperbaric therapy, its applications, and key practices for emergency departments when treating patients with decompression illness. The conv...
In this season-ending episode of the St Emlyn's podcast, Iain Beardsell and Simon Carley come together in Zermatt, Switzerland, to discuss recent studies and updates.
They highlight a randomized control trial on early exercise in blunt chest wall trauma, revealing its limited impact on recovery outcomes. Additionally, they explore the long-term safety of intraosseous access based on new evidence from Denmark.
The episode also provi...
In this episode of the St Emlyn's podcast, hosts Iain Beardsell and Liz Crowe talk with Nathalie Pattyn at TacTrauma24 in Sweden about the phenomenon of skills fade amongst emergency physicians.
Nathalie discusses her extensive background in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience, and shares insights from her research on how skills can deteriorate during low workload deployments, such as her 15-month clinical stint in Antarctica.
T...
Welcome to our first episode recorded at the London Trauma Conference 2024.
In this episode, hosts Iain Beardsell and Natalie May are joined by Matt Hooper from Adelaide to discuss his unique career path, from emergency medicine to pre-hospital and retrieval medicine, intensive care, and more recently, palliative and end-of-life care.
The conversation centres around the principles of end-of-life care, particularly in acute and trau...
In this episode of the St Emlyn's podcast, hosts Iain Beardsell and Liz Crowe speak with Sean Brayford Harris, a paramedic and interoperability development officer with the London Ambulance Service, about the development of the 10 second triage tool—a new, streamlined method for triaging casualties in high-stress environments like major incidents.
They discuss its creation and implementation, including collaboration with the Metrop...
During Winter's Challenges, Iain Beardsell and Simon Carley reviewed the November 2024 blog posts for St Emlyn's podcast, marking the start of 2025. They discuss the busy state of emergency departments, critical incidents, and the importance of maintaining a learning culture.
They highlight the upcoming Big Sick Conference in Zermatt and the IncrEMentuM in Spain, noting their potential benefits for networking and education.
Simon e...
In this episode of the St. Emlyn's podcast, Rick Body and Greg Yates delve into the concept of likelihood ratios, an advanced yet practical tool for diagnosing patients in the emergency department. Building on the previous episode about predictive values, they explain how likelihood ratios help compare the probability of test results between diseased and non-diseased patients. They provide examples, like evaluating chest pain and u...
In this episode of the St Emlyn's podcast, Iain Beardsell and Simon Carley provide a comprehensive update for October 2024. They discuss key blog posts covering diverse medical topics, including highlights from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine's academic science conference focusing on toxicology, high-potency opioids, novel benzodiazepines, and the use of flumazenil.
They also explore the Green ED project and the impact of c...
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