Podcast Episodes

Ep 289 - Refractory VF, Double Sequential Defibrillation, and the Future of Cardiac Arrest

Season 13 Episode 1

What do we really know about treating refractory ventricular fibrillation?
And why are we still waiting to use strategies that might actually work?

I…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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Ep 288 - Training Reform, Trauma Leadership, AI on the Shop Floor and more (November/December 2025)

Season 12 Episode 28

You’re about to hear a conversation that ranges widely — from training reform and trauma leadership to ondansetron, paracetamol protocols, and artifi…

7 months ago

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Ep 287 - Damage Control Pre-hospital Care with Harriet Tucker at Trauma 2030

Season 12 Episode 27

You’re about to hear a conversation about doing less. But it isn’t really about doing less. It’s about time.

Recorded at Trauma 2030 at the Royal Col…

7 months, 1 week ago

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Ep 286 - Building HEMS in Northern Ireland: Systems, People, and the Legacy of John Hinds with Nigel Ruddell at BASICs 2025

Season 12 Episode 26

In this episode of the St Emlyn’s Podcast, we’re joined by Nigel Ruddell, Medical Director of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, recorded live a…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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Ep 285 - Resuscitative Hysterotomy with Caroline Leech at BASICs 2025

Season 12 Episode 25

In this episode of the St Emlyn’s Podcast, Iain Beardsell and Simon Carley talk with Caroline Leech at the BASICs Conference about resuscitative hyst…

8 months, 1 week ago

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Ep 284 - Trauma, Cardiac Arrest, and the Myth of the Silver Bullet (October 2025)

Season 12 Episode 24

In this (rather delayed!) October round-up, Iain Beardsell and Simon Carley catch up on recent St Emlyn’s blog posts and papers that continue to shap…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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Ep 283 - Best Bits of 2025 — Bonus: Clinical Pearls

Season 12 Episode 23

This bonus episode is a quick-fire collection of clinical pearls drawn from across the St Emlyn’s podcast in 2025.

Short, practical, and deliberately…

9 months ago

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Ep 282 - Best Bits of 2025 — The Things You’ll Be Glad You Remember

Season 12 Episode 22

Some of the hardest moments in emergency medicine aren’t hard because they’re complicated.
They’re hard because they’re rare — and when they arrive, …

9 months ago

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Ep 281 - Best Bits of 2025: Getting Better the Sustainable Way

Season 12 Episode 21

January often brings pressure to improve — to fix gaps, sharpen skills, and somehow be better than the year before. Done badly, that drive can become…

9 months, 1 week ago

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Ep 280 - Best Bits of 2025: Staying Human Under Pressure

Season 12 Episode 20

Winter pressure doesn’t just affect patient flow.
It affects people.

This second episode in the Best Bits of 2025 series focuses on the human side of…

9 months, 1 week ago

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