Episode 71 ACLS Guidelines 2015 – Cardiac Arrest Controversies Part 1
A lot has changed over the years when it comes to managing the adult in cardiac arrest. As a result, survival rates after cardiac arrest have risen steadily over the last decade. With the release of...
View ArticleEpisode 72 ACLS Guidelines 2015 Post Arrest Care
Once we've achieved ROSC our job is not over. Good post-arrest care involves maintaining blood pressure and cerebral perfusion, adequate sedation, cooling and preventing hyperthermia, considering...
View ArticleBest Case Ever 42 Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
When was the last time you saw ventricular fibrillation in a 4 month old? Dr. Simard tells his Best Case Ever of a Pediatric Cardiac Arrest in which meticulous preparation, sticking to his guns, early...
View ArticleEpisode 73 Emergency Management of Pediatric Seizures
Pediatric seizures are common. So common that about 5% of all children will have a seizure by the time they’re 16 years old. If any of you have been parents of a child who suddenly starts seizing,...
View ArticleEpisode 74 Opioid Misuse in Emergency Medicine
Pain leads to suffering. Opioid misuse leads to suffering. We strive to avoid both for our patients. On the one hand, treating pain is one of the most important things we do in emergency medicine to...
View ArticleJournal Jam 5 One Hour Troponin to Rule Out and In MI
Traditionally we've run at least 2 troponins 6 or 8 hours apart to help rule out MI and recently in algorithms like the HEART score we've combined clinical data with a 2 or 3 hour delta troponin to...
View ArticleEpisode 75 Decision Making in EM – Cognitive Debiasing, Situational Awareness...
While knowledge acquisition is vital to developing your clinical skills as an EM provider, using that knowledge effectively for decision making in EM requires a whole other set of skills. In this EM...
View ArticleBest Case Ever 43 Ruptured AAA
I caught up with Dr. Anand Swaminathan, otherwise known as EM Swami, at The Teaching Course in NYC where he told his Best Case Ever from Janus General of his heroic and collaborative attempts at saving...
View ArticleEpisode 76 Pediatric Procedural Sedation
In this EM Cases episode on Pediatric Procedural Sedation with Dr. Amy Drendel, a world leader in pediatric pain management and procedural sedation research, we discuss how best to manage pain and...
View ArticleBest Case Ever 44 Low Risk Pulmonary Embolism
Dr. Salim Rezaie of R.E.B.E.L. EM tells his Best Case Ever of a Low Risk Pulmonary Embolism that begs us to consider a work-up and management plan that we might not otherwise consider. With new...
View ArticleEpisode 77 Fever in the Returning Traveler
In this EM Cases episode with Dr. Nazanin Meshkat, multinational ED doc and Dr. Matthew Muller, infectious disease specialist, we discuss the most common tropical disease killers that we see in...
View ArticleJournal Jam 6 – Outpatient Topical Anesthetics for Corneal Abrasions
This is EM Cases Journal Jam Podcast 6 - Outpatient Topical Anesthetics for Corneal Abrasions. I’ve been told countless times by ophthalmologists and other colleagues NEVER to prescribe topical...
View ArticleEpisode 79 – Management of Acute Pediatric Asthma Exacerbations
In this EM Cases episode on Pediatric Asthma we discuss risk stratification (including the PASS and PRAM scores), indications for CXR, the value of blood gases, MDIs with spacer vs nebulizers for...
View ArticleEpisode 80 – Presentation Skills
Whether you’re a first year resident or a veteran of EM, you’ve probably given, or will be giving at least one presentation at some point in your career. On the one hand, presentations can be...
View ArticleBest Case Ever 45 – Mike Winters on Cardiac Arrest
I had the great pleasure of meeting Dr. Mike Winters on his first ever visit to Canada at North York General's Emergency Medicine Update Conference, where he gave two fantastic presentations. His...
View ArticleEpisode 81 – A Balanced View on Recent EM Literature with Joel Yaphe
EM Cases - A Balanced View on recent EM Literature with Joel Yaphe Being an optimist, I'm constantly searching for EM literature that will change my practice in a positive way and ultimately improve...
View ArticleEpisode 82 – Emergency Radiology Controversies
EM Cases Episode 82 Emergency Radiology Controversies, pearls and pitfalls: Which patients with chest pain suspected of ACS require a CXR? What CXR findings do ED docs tend to miss? How should we...
View ArticleBest Case Ever 46 – Chris Nickson on Hickam’s Dictum
EM Cases Best Case Ever - Chris Nickson on Hickam's Dictum. Usually we use the heuristic of Occam's razor to help us arrive at one diagnosis that makes sense of all the data points that a particular...
View ArticleEpisode 83 – 5 Critical Care Controversies from SMACC Dublin
EM Cases Episode 83 - 5 Critical Care Controversies from SMACC Dublin: I had the great opportunity to gather some of the brightest minds in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care from around the world...
View ArticleBest Case Ever 48 – Cyanotic Infant
In anticipation of EM Cases' upcoming episode on Congenital Heart Disease Emergencies we have Dr. Gary Joubert a double certified Pediatric EM and Pediatric Cardiology expert telling his Best Case Ever...
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