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

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

(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

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