The Resus Room is a UK-based podcast dedicated to evidence-based emergency medicine and prehospital care. Created and hosted by Simon Laing, an emergency physician and prehospital consultant, the podcast has become a respected voice in acute care education since its launch in 2015. The podcast is designed for doctors, paramedics, nurses, and advanced practitioners working across the emergency care system.
The action point is immediate: no single chest sign safely excludes a blunt traumatic pneumothorax, and the same episode also sharpens how to read whole-blood trial results and when selected older patients with head injury may avoid conveyance after senior review.
Refractory VF demands technical precision, not just repetition. Check pad position, keep the lateral pad truly mid-axillary, and change to an anterior-posterior vector with fresh pads after three failed shocks; during ventilated CPR, raise the pressure alarm so set tidal volumes are actually delivered.
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