Exploring Clonidine as an Analgesic for Opioid-Dependent Patients

Happy Mayday! Apologies for the delay... this month for the May 2024 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast Rob and Liz have two new in EM sections on the use of clonidine for pain and the use of coca cola in food boluses. We have a new Guidelines for EM section on The NEXUS Guidelines for Chest Imaging and then Rob speaks with Matt Reed about submitting your work for the RCEM Annual Scientific Conference. We then end with New Online. If you'd like to email us, please feel free to do so here.

(01:56) New in EM - Clonidine for pain

• Effect of oral clonidine on pain reduction in patients with opioid use disorder in the emergency department: A randomized clinical trial (Rostamipoor et al., 2024)

(17:44) Guidelines for EM - The NEXUS Guidelines for Chest Imaging

• A Pilot Study to Derive Clinical Variables for Selective Chest Radiography in Blunt Trauma Patients (Rodriguez et al., 2006)
• Derivation of a decision instrument for selective chest radiography in blunt trauma (Rodriguez et al., 2011)
• Derivation and validation of two decision instruments for selective chest CT in blunt trauma: a multicenter prospective observational study (NEXUS Chest CT) (Rodriguez et al., 2015)
• Evaluation of the Nexus X-ray rules in blunt thorax trauma (Acar et al., 2020)
• CT scanning in blunt chest trauma: validation of decision instruments (Reichardt et al., 2020)

(49:28) Interview with Matt Reed (RCEM Research Committee Chair)

• RCEM Annual Scientific Conference 2024
• Submitting your abstract to the RCEM Annual Scientific Conference 2024

(57:19) New in EM - Coca-cola for food bolus

• Efficacy of cola ingestion for oesophageal food bolus impaction: open label, multicentre, randomised controlled trial (Tievie et al., 2024)

(01:13:24) New Online – new articles on RCEMLearning for your CPD

• Curriculum Cup (Neurology) - RCEMLearning
• Behaviours that Challenge - Liz Herrieven
• Sickle Cell Disease - Lisa Sabir, Roshan Cherian