Reflections and Upcoming Discussions in Emergency Medicine

Happy New Year! This month for the January 2025 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast, we have got two new in EM segments looking at staff turnover and mortality and the assessment of febrile infants. Becky and Chris detail a guideline on acute kidney injury, before ending 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!

Buy tickets to the EMTA Conference in Bristol, February 26 & 27! (03:55) New in EM - Staff turnover and mortality

• Nurse and doctor turnover and patient outcomes in NHS acute trusts in England: retrospective longitudinal study (Moscelli et al., 2024), PDF

(20:03) Guidelines for EM - NICE Guidelines on Acute Kidney Injury

• Acute kidney injury: prevention, detection and management (NICE, 2024), PDF

(59:36) New in EM - Assessment of febrile infants

• Performance of clinical decision aids (CDA) for the care of young febrile infants: a multicentre prospective cohort study conducted in the UK and Ireland (Umana et al., 2024), PDF
• Optimizing Management of Febrile Young Infants Without Serum Procalcitonin (Burstein et al., 2025), PDF

(01:17:19) New Online – new articles on RCEMLearning for your CPD

• Vasopressors - Alasdair Munro, Simin Nikou, Charlotte Davies
• The Limping Child, by Charlotte Davies and Nikki Abela
• Testicular Pain, by Kellie Bateman