Happy August! For the August 2026 episode of the RCEMLearning Podcast Rob speaks with Matt Reed about the ASPIRED Study. 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!

• Immediate Ambulatory Electrocardiographic Monitoring in Syncope (Reed et al., 2026)

This month for the July 2026 episode of the RCEMLearning Podcast Becky and Chris talk through the second in a two parter on the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines update. Rob then speaks with Arya Rao about LLMs and clinical reasoning. 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!

• Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2026

• Large Language Model Performance and Clinical Reasoning Tasks (Rao et al., 2026)

This month for the June 2026 episode of the RCEMLearning Podcast Becky and Chris talk through the first in a two parter on the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines update. Rob then speaks with Alison Tavare about the NCEPOD learning disability report. 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!

• Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock 2026

• NCEPOD - Acute illness in people with a learning disability

This month for the May 2026 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast I speak with another seven amazing speakers from the RCEM Annual Conference. This is a similarly bumper episode as last month. 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) Steve Goodacre - Should we follow the science?
• (12:32) Victoria Currie - That's a wrap! 3 interesting papers in PEM: Bubblewrap x RCEM Conference
• (35:33) Tom Bannister - (De)constructing culture in the ED
• (51:27) Jocelyn Brittliff - Working in EM as an older clinician
• (58:12) Chris Humphries - Rebuilding EM data for health equity
• (01:07:25) Rebecca McKnight and Ijeoma Chibuzo - Understanding Ketamine Use Disorder: A guide for frontline services
• (01:21:19) Alex Novak - Evidence generation for diagnostic AI in the ED
• (01:32:42) Stephen Fowler - Asthma updates from new BTS/NICE/SIGN guideline and beyond

This month for the April 2026 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast I speak with eight amazing speakers from the RCEM Annual Conference. This will be an absolutely bumper episode, and next month I will be speaking to seven speakers who are just as interesting. 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!

• (02:53) Andrew Lockey - Defibrillation strategies: To dual or not to dual?
• (15:01) Chelcie Jewitt - Not just a surgical problem: Sexual misconduct in EM
• (23:49) Michael Barrett - The MAGPIE Trial
• (42:30) Rebecca Whiticar - Top 5 common claims in EM
• (51:02) Ben McKenzie - AMAX4
• (01:03:58) Annette Rickard and Ali Griffiths - Making dying better in the ED
• (01:17:36) Dan Horner - Diagnosis and management of pulmonary embolism in the ED
• (01:28:45) Dan Perry - Getting CRAFFTy about SCIENCE: Results from international RCTs in paediatric orthopaedic trauma

• Cheskes et al. - Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation
• Surviving in Scrubs
• Hartshorn et al. - Treatment of acute trauma-related pain in children and adolescents with methoxyflurane (Penthrox®) compared to placebo (MAGPIE): A randomised clinical trial
• MPS & Rebecca Whiticar - Law at the front door
• AMAX4
• Plymouth Hospital End of Life Pathway
• High Five for High PEITHO? Intermediate-high risk PE (St. Emlyn's)
• The CRAFFT Study

This month for the March 2026 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast Andy and Dave discuss ibuprofen and additional opiates in paediatric injury. Becky and Chris talk through an RCEM Best Practice Guideline on the management of sexual assault in the ED and Rob then talks with one of the authors, Maddy Dodds, about this guideline. As a TRIGGER WARNING, this does involve discussion around the topic of sexual assault. 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!

• Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) or Opioid Analgesia Added to Ibuprofen for Children's Musculoskeletal Injury: Two Randomized Clinical Trials (Ali et al., 2026)

• RCEM Best Practice Guideline for the Management of Sexual Assault in the ED (2026) [PDF]

• RCEM Best Practice Guideline for the Management of Sexual Assault in the ED (2026) [PDF]

• RCEM Quality Fellow Job Description [Word]

Happy New Year! This month for the February 2026 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast Andy and Dave discuss blood pressure targets in spinal cord injury. Becky and Chris talk through a New Zealand Chest Injury Guideline and Rob then talks with Charlotte Underwood and the role of gender in the assessment of abdominal pain. 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!

• Early Blood Pressure Targets in Acute Spinal Cord Injury: A Randomized Clinical Trial (Sajdeya et al., 2025)

• Health New Zealand - National Chest Injury Guidance (2025) [PDF]

• Expression of interest to join this study
• Gender disparity in analgesic treatment of emergency department patients with acute abdominal pain (Chen et al., 2008)
• Race and Sex Are Associated With Variations in Pain Management in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Undifferentiated Abdominal Pain (Drogell et al., 2022)
• Women's experiences of seeking healthcare for abdominal pain in Ireland: a qualitative study (Windrim et al., 2024)
• Ending the neglect of women's health in research (Galea et al., 2023)

Happy New Year! This month for the January 2026 episode of the RCEM Learning Podcast Andy and Dave discuss two papers with Dave - looking at the role of CT scanning in undifferentiated sepsis and the use of bicarbonate in acidaemia. Rob talks to Ben Clarke and Ryan McHenry about the latest TERN Study, the UnCORKED Study, 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!

• Suspected infection of unclear origin at the emergency department: diagnostic yield of thoraco-abdominal-pelvic CT in non-severe patients (Dumon et al., 2025)

• Understanding corridor and escalation area care in 165 UK emergency departments: a multicentre cross-sectional snapshot study (TERN, 2025)
• TERN Research

• Sodium Bicarbonate for Severe Metabolic Acidemia and Acute Kidney Injury: The BICARICU-2 Randomized Clinical Trial (Jung et al., 2025)

• Frances Copp - The Droopy Dribbler
• Frances Balmer - Methaemoglobinaemia
• Sarah Edwards - Genitourinary Foreign Bodies