Gas Exchange
A UK Paediatric Respiratory Podcast
About
Gas Exchange is a non-profit podcast run by paediatric registrars in the UK. We aim to broaden the knowledge of medical health professionals with an interest in the paediatric respiratory sub-specialty. We invite experienced members in the field to discuss interesting topics, both academic and clinical.
Meet the Team
Dr Kirstin Dykes
Based in Bristol, Kirstin is currently completing a Clinical Teaching Fellow year between ST4 and ST5 Paediatrics in the Severn Deanery. After discovering a love for Paediatric Respiratory Medicine she was disappointed to find that there were no accessible UK-based podcasts on the subject. Deciding to change that, she recruited a few colleagues via Twitter, and Gas Exchange was born. Her interests include lungs, words, the outdoors, and what makes people tick. Perenially aspiring triathlete, if only she could learn to swim competently...Friends say she owns too many books, but they're clearly wrong.
Dr Adam Lawton
Adam is a paediatric registrar in the London Deanery, with an interest in general and respiratory paediatrics, medical ethics, and medical education. Adam has been interested in respiratory medicine since his first year of medical school, when he had to write an essay on how birds breathe (look it up, it's really interesting!). The respiratory SHO job at GOSH cemented his desire to work in a place adjacent to so many excellent coffee shops.
Dr Saskia Burchett
Originally from Hong Kong, Saskia is a senior general paediatrics registrar who is completing a SPIN in respiratory medicine. She is currently based at Royal Brompton Hospital for a year. Outside of medicine, she enjoys forcing her baking experiments on loved ones, amateur embroidery and history podcasts. She is also a crazy cat mum to Milo.
Episodes
Episode 2
Sustainable Respiratory Health with Dr Rosie Spooner
Kirstin discusses the implications of climate change on child respiratory health with Dr Rosie Spooner, including the simple measures that respiratory health care professionals can do to help the environment.
Dr Rosie Spooner is a Paediatric Registrar in the Severn Deanery. She is a QI Education Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare and is passionate about the environment.
Release date: June 2nd 2021
Host: Dr Kirstin Dykes
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Resources:
1. Every breath we take: the lifelong impact of air pollution (RCP & RCPCH Feb 2016):
https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/every-breath-we-take-lifelong-impact-air-pollution
2. The Inside story: health effects of indoor air quality on children and young people (RCPCH Jan 2020):
https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2020-01/the-inside-story-report_january-2020.pdf
3. Learn more about the Kidzmed project helping children switch from liquid medicines to tablets:
https://qicentral.rcpch.ac.uk/medsiq/patient-support/creating-a-pill-school-the-kidzmed-project/
Full publication here: https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/11/1105
4. Inhaler resources:
www.greeninhaler.org
www.greenerpractice.co.uk
5. Sustainable QI resources from the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare:
www.susqi.org
6. Further information on air pollution and health, including patient information leaflets:
www.cleanairhub.org.uk/mobilisinghealthprofessionals
Episode 1
CFTR Modulators with Dr John King
Saskia talks with Dr King about why it's important to know about CFTR modulators and how they work, and why it may change how we treat cystic fibrosis in the future.
Dr John King is an ST7 GRID trainee in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital. He is currently undertaking an MD(Res) with Professor Jane Davies, looking at novel methods of Pseudomonas detection in the era of highly effective CF modulator therapies.
Release date: May 11th 2021
Host: Dr Saskia Burchett
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