COVID-19 — FOAM Your Eyes Only

Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine Dr Colin Gilhooley and Head Smart Fellow Dr Sharna Shan joined the podcast with appropriate social distancing to tell us about how children and young people have been affected by COVID-19. This episode was recorded on Monday 27th April 2020.

Take Aurally · COVID-19 Part Two: COVID-19 & Paediatrics

There’s a chance to discuss the Urgent Alert from the Paediatric Intensive Care Society of the UK as well as the impact on other Paediatric services such as cancer screening and safeguarding.

You can find the amazing Don’t Forget the Bubbles COVID-19 Evidence Review here

You can hear our previous podcast with Sharna discussing her work with Head Smart here

For brilliant information and resources on brain tumours in children and young people visit the Head Smart website

In the first part of our COVID-19 series Consultant in Emergency Medicine Dr Andrew Lindsay joined the podcast via Zoom. This episode was recorded on Wednesday April 29th 2020.

Take Aurally · COVID-19 Part One: Preparing an Emergency Department for a pandemic

Questions put to Andy included:

What were the priorities when facing COVID-19?
What was the process for responding to the virus and making changes to the department?
What pressures does a pandemic virus place on an Emergency Department?
What was the guidance? Was this based on influenza planning?
How has the PPE guidance changed and why?
There’s been a lot in the media about PPE supply, what have the issues been?
Has fake news been a challenge? How have you responded to it?
What is the escalation process for a patient with COVID-19?
The decision of escalation and palliation
With Andy’s pre-hospital hat on – how is intubation with COVID-19 different?
The role of NIV in COVID-19
What is an aerosol generating procedure? What is an aerosol?
How has CPR guidance changed and why?
What does COVID-19 do to lungs?
Why are patients being proned?
How useful is immunity testing?
Could this change how Emergency Departments are run in the future?
Will the hot vs cold division continue?

This podcast was recorded shortly after we received the sad news of the passing of Manjeet Riyat. As with everyone in the Emergency Medicine family our deepest sympathies are with his family, friends and colleagues.