Managing Acute Behavioral Disturbances

Happy June! This month for the June 2025 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast Rob covers for Andy and discussed two HALO-heavy papers with Dave - looking at the London HEMS pre-hospital thoracotomy paper and a systematic review looking at resuscitative hysterotomy. Becky and Chris go on the first of a two part deep dive through a guideline looking at the management of acute behavioural disturbance and we then end with New Online! If you'd like to email us, please feel free to do so here. After listening, complete a short quiz to have your time accredited for CPD at the RCEMLearning website!

(02:35) New in EM - London HEMS Thoracotomy Outcomes

• Prehospital Resuscitative Thoracotomy for Traumatic Cardiac Arrest (Perkins et al., 2025)
• RCEMLearning July 2023 - HALO Procedures with Joseph Mathew and Dave McCreary

(15:41) Guidelines for EM - Acute Behavioural Disturbance in Emergency Departments

• RCEM - Acute Behavioural Disturbance in Emergency Departments (RCEM, 2025) [PDF]

(46:00) New in EM - Systematic review of resuscitative hysterotomies

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• Maternal and neonatal outcomes following resuscitative hysterotomy for out of hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review (Leech et al., 2025)

(59:48) New Online – new articles on RCEMLearning for your CPD

• Medics and the Media: The Anti-social Network - Fin McNicol
• Tracheostomy emergencies in adults - Jonathan Cooper
• Pelvic Fractures – A guide to treatment within a Trauma Unit - Peter Bates, Paul Harnett, Matt Gee