TheCase.Report - An Irish Emergency Medicine Podcast

Welcome back to Season 6 of TheCase.Report!To kick off the new season, Mohammed sat down with Paula Cuddihy and Michael Dover to look back at and chat through season 1 of the emergency medicine TV hit show "The Pitt".What do you all think of the show and what the team discussed? Let us know your thoughts by leaving a comment.

Welcome back to another episode of The Case.Report! This month we’re shaking things up a little as NCHDs Callum and Johnny work hard stabilising not just one patient, but an entire planetary ecosystem. Planet Earth has come to TCR resus in a critical condition and there’s no time to waste. With toxic levels of air pollution, rising global temperatures, escalating extreme weather events, threats to global food and water security, and a rapidly closing window to act - this is a health emergency beyond any doubt. Our adult in the room this month is the outstanding Professor Hugh Montgomery - Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London, Consultant in Cardiology and General Internal Medicine, Co-chair of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change. Listen now on ⁠Spotify⁠, ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ or wherever you get your podcasts, and as always check out our Bluesky⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠Facebook⁠ and ⁠X⁠ to keep updated with all things TCR.

Welcome to our first main episode of TCR for 2025 and we have got the ball rolling this February with three paediatric urological presentations to keep you refreshed on your PEM knowledge! We are thrilled to reintroduce Dr Emma Fauteux - CUH PEM lead, (see S2E9) to be our AITR this week who gives us some hot tips for each of the cases! Listen now on ⁠Spotify⁠, ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ or wherever you get your podcasts, and as always, be sure to follow along with the show notes at ⁠thecase.report⁠ and on socials Bluesky⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠Facebook⁠ and ⁠X⁠ to keep updated with all things TCR. Right then, let's get to it!

Join us today for our first Sports Medicine Episode of season 5, where we’re bring our case to the streets of Dublin. Liam Loughrey and Carl Byrne join our very own Leah Flanagan who finds herself running a marathon (she doesn’t believe she could do one, but we believe in her here at TCR)! This month our adult in the room is Dr Stephen Gilmartin. He is an Emergency Medicine Consultant at Sligo University Hospital with a special interest in Sports & Exercise Medicine and minor injuries. With experience acting as the team doctor for professional rugby and inter-county GAA teams, who better to correct our homework?Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, and as always, be sure to follow along on Bluesky, Instagram, Facebook and X to keep updated with all things TCR.

Welcome to November's main episode of TheCase.Report! In this episode we dive into all things Parkinson’s disease (PD). Our team keep their differentials broad as they work up and diligently manage a 78-year-old man presenting with an acute behavioural change on a background of Parkinson's Disease. We’re delighted to have Dr Barry Keane, Consultant in Emergency Medicine at St James’s Hospital join us this month as our Adult in the Room to review our work. This episode is bursting with clinical pearls as we discuss what to consider and what not to miss in Parkinson's Disease patients. As always, don’t forget to follow us on socials on ⁠⁠⁠instagram⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠x⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠facebook ⁠⁠⁠to keep updated with all things TCR. Coffee in hand? Right then, let’s get to it!

Season 5 is just around the corner! We'll be kicking off the new season October 7th. Mark your calendars! In the meantime, Mohammed is off to Pakistan this week to PakTraumaCon 2024. Being the insufferable nerd that he is, he's not satisfied annoying his colleagues and new acquaintances only at the conference, but has also been after them for chats before even getting on the plane... Someone needs to stop him! Joining him on this bonus is Prof Junaid Abdul Razzak, also a speaker at PakTraumaCon this year. Prof Abdul Razzak is Vice Chair of Research at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, and is also the Director of the Centre of Excellence for Trauma and Emergencies at the Aga Khan University in Karachi. Right! Let's get to it.

This time is always busy for our trainees with interview preparation so Leah took the opportunity to sit down with Dr Andrew Neill, consultant in Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine in the Mater Hospital to discuss the controversial topic of REBOA. They discuss the UK-REBOA trial and the evidence behind the technique and why we should be cautious about it's used in the Irish trauma system in particular. As always, don’t forget to follow us on socials on ⁠⁠⁠instagram⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠twitter ⁠⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠facebook ⁠⁠⁠to keep updated with all things TCR. Coffee in hand? Right then, let’s get to it!

With over 3900 neck of femur fractures (NOFs) reported in Ireland in 2021, these fractures represent a significant burden of morbidity and mortality, particularly for our older patients. Early recognition coupled with meticulous management, both in the ED and beyond, is instrumental in ensuring optimal outcomes. Orla Kelly puts TCR newcomers Conor O’Gara and Jane Cassidy through their paces with today’s case before we sit down with our Adult in the Room - Dr Mustafa Mehmood, Consultant in Emergency Medicine in St James’s Hospital, and architect of the department’s ‘Code Hip 240’ protocol. As always, don’t forget to follow us on socials on ⁠instagram⁠, ⁠twitter ⁠and ⁠facebook ⁠to keep updated with all things TCR. Coffee in hand? Right then, let’s get to it!

We're in the Paediatric section of the TCR Emergency Department where Mo, Stephen and Rachel are concerned about a five day old baby. GBS sepsis is no joke, and our team bring us through the management of one of the most daunting cohorts of all: the septic neonate. Our Adult in the Room Dr Rasha Sawaya reviews our work, and also talks about feeding issues, what to do when your initial management doesn't work, and gives some tips and tricks for ED NCHDs who are graduating to more senior roles. Join the conversation on X, Instagram, and Facebook. We've got some great infographics and notes to compliment your learning that you can find at thecase.report. This will be our last episode of 2023, but we've got an incredible PEM bonus episode coming early in the new year. And as always: "May your coffee be strong, and your rounds grand."

From the seatbelt sign and it’s association with intra-abdominal pathology to the “Hateful Eight” to the electrolyte breakdown in red cells, Callum, Eoghan and our AITR Dr Sean Croughan are doing a deep dive of managing the unstable trauma patient in this month's episode of thecase.report. Oh, and don't forget about distracting injuries! Following on from our second South African Special Episode last month, we’re back in Ireland in a rural ED. Eoghan, the only Reg working in ED this evening gets a pre-alert about a female involved in a single vehicle road traffic collision. Follow the case from zero-point survey to a detailed debrief with the show notes online. As always, don’t forget to follow us on socials on instagram, twitter and facebook to keep updated with all things TCR. Right then, let’s get to it!

Welcome back to a brand new season of TheCase.Report! As we continue to grow into our fourth season, so too does our team - a big welcome to our many new members who are taking TCR to new heights. The team have been working all throughout our summer hiatus to deliver what promises to be an incredibly exciting season 4! Many thanks as always to IAEM who make this podcast possible - at our heart, we are a community of learning and it is humbling to see how the podcast has evolved over time. But enough of the soppiness, we’re starting the season as we mean to go on - with a bang. Literally. We’re kick starting this new Case.Report marathon with the golden triad - Leah, Liam and Carl.... oh and also swimming, cycling and running. It’s triathlon time! Treating you to a trio of interesting cases, increasingly relevant to EM, we’re delving into some presentations to watch out for, how to manage them and tips to keep your patients off the bench. Coaching us through it we have our Adult in the Room, Patrick Martin. Paddy is one of our amazing Emergency Advanced Nurse Practitioners and we are very lucky to have us join us this month. Don’t forget to download the incredible infographics that accompany the show notes made by our fantastic new junior producers!

We’re back with some more spinal trauma for you. Orla re-joins us this month along with Liam and Marike to discuss an unusual case of spinal injury in the ED today. It’s one not to miss. We then catch up with Dr. Deirdre Glynn, Consultant in Emergency Medicine at St. James’s Hospital and trauma and POCUS enthusiast to discuss spinal cord syndromes and their management in the Emergency Department settings including the all important secondary prevention.