FLUIDS & ELECTROLYTES: HYPOK+ (HYPOKALAEMIA)

In this episode, Ben takes Maddy and Alex through the topic of paracetamol overdose - an extremely common presentation in the ED. We cover management - including how to use the nomogram, when to use NAC, and how to factor in the timing of the presentation. This episode is an episode not to miss for any medical students preparing or revising their emergency rotations!

In the next instalment of our “Approaching a MET call” series we continue our discussion of emergency ward calls you might face as a junior doctor. In this episode, Maddy, Ben and Alex talk all things BRADYCARDIA and is an episode not to be missed, especially for all our final year students!

In the next instalment of our “Fluids and Electrolytes” series, Maddy and Alex discuss HYPERkalaemia! They cover what the most common causes are, what symptoms you might spot in these patients and what to do when you see it on lab results - including an in-depth discussion on how to identify the severity & urgency of the hyperkalaemia and the associated management steps. This episode provides a succinct outline of the classification and treatment of HyperK+ - an excellent resource for any medical students looking to brush up their knowledge in fluids and electrolytes!

The latest episode kicks off our new series, “Fluids and Electrolytes” In this episode, Maddy and Alex discuss hypokalaemia, its causes and treatment!

The latest episode kicks off our new series, “Approaching A MET Call” where we go through an approach to some of the emergency ward calls you might face as a junior doctor. In this episode, Maddy & Alex talk all things TACHYCARDIA and is an episode not to be missed, especially for all our final year students!

In this Episode, Maddy, Alex & Ben help you get your head around diabetic ketoacidosis. Talking through the basics of diagnosis, investigation and management of DKA this is an episode not to be missed!

Unfortunately listeners, today's episode brings us to the end of Get MESSy for 2021. Thank you for making our first year so successful! We hope to be back next year to continue to bring you educational content on critical care for medical students. Fiona and Liam would love to thank the entire MESS Education team, and in particular our wonderful tech support guru Maddy, who has painstakingly edited all of our episodes behind the scenes. We'd also like to thank Lydia for all her wonderful work on promotions and advertising for the podcast. What better way to wrap up the year than by wrapping our series on ventilation and airways with an episode on invasive ventilation. This episode builds upon a lot of principles from last episode, so it's worth listening to that first. And remember, this is just the very basics of ventilator settings - it gets a lot more complicated from here! Thanks team, it's been a pleasure. If you have any ideas for topics you'd like to hear about next year, please let us know! For show notes, check out the resources tab at www.messunimelb.org

In Part 2 of our series on airways and ventilation, Liam and Fiona take us through the principles of NIV. If you've ever been baffled by PEEP, CPAP and BiPAP, this is the episode for you! This episode is also crucial to listen to before our next episode, where we cover a lot of similar principles in the context of invasive ventilation. As always, a summary of this podcast is available on the MESS website - www.messunimelb.org/COVID19

This episode is the first in a 3 part series on airways and ventilation strategies. The goal of this series is to allow you to appreciate some of the complexities surrounding ventilation, but also to teach you the basics so that you can understand what's going on the next time you're reviewing a ventilated patient on your ward round, or when you're attending a Code Blue. For the show notes that accompany this series, check out the resources tab at www.messunimelb.org Resources on airways and ventilation can be found underneath the COVID19 resources heading.

Today’s chaotic energy is brought to you by Fiona and Trav as they discuss the bane of every ED doctors’ existence: the 4 hour rule. This episode takes a departure from our usual clinical content to delve into the wild world of healthcare policy. References for this episode can be accessed via the MESS website, at www.messunimelb.org If you feel like continuing the conversation, you can find Trav on Twitter (@travislines)