EM Basic
EM Basic is your boot camp guide to Emergency Medicine. Each episode reviews a core topic in emergency medicine at the level of a medical student or intern. Every podcast starts with a common chief complaint or topic and reviews the relevant parts of the ...
EM Basic is your boot camp guide to Emergency Medicine. Each episode reviews a core topic in emergency medicine at the level of a medical student or intern. Every podcast starts with a common chief complaint or topic and reviews the relevant parts of the history and physical, differential diagnosis, necessary labs and testing, disposition, and some clinical tips and pearls.
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Seizures
We encounter seizure disorders frequently in the ED. In this ...
We encounter seizure disorders frequently in the ED. In this episode, we'll review all the important points about seizures including the confusing and difficult topic of pseudosezures. We'll also go in depth on the ED treatment of seizures...
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EM Basic Essential Evidence- 7 SAEM Occult Bacteremia
We're back with a new episode of Essential Evidence. This ...
We're back with a new episode of Essential Evidence. This article is from Academic Emergency Medicine March 2009 and it talks about getting blood cultures in well appearing kids aged 3 to 36 months. We used to get a lot of blood cultures...
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Eye Complaints
EM Basic is back and ready for the new year. ...
EM Basic is back and ready for the new year. We see various eye complaints a lot in the ED. This episode will review common eye complaints, their treatments, and a bonus section on how to do a lateral canthotomy.
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EM Basic Essential Evidence- PECARN Head CT Rule
This episode reviews the article that most people call the ...
This episode reviews the article that most people call the PECARN head CT rule or the Kupperman head CT rule (named for the first author). This is an easy to use clinical decision rule that can help us reduce the number of head CTs that we do on...
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Psychiatric Medical Screening
In this episode, we will discuss how to perform medical ...
In this episode, we will discuss how to perform medical screening for patients with psychiatric complaints. While most of these workups are routine, we have to be able to catch the small percentage of patients who have a medical cause to their...
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EM Basic Essential Evidence- Therapeutic Hypothermia
This episode of EM Basic Essential Evidence will review the ...
This episode of EM Basic Essential Evidence will review the two articles that led to the adoption of therapeutic hypothermia as a treatment for survivors of cardiac arrest. This is a simple yet highly effective therapy that improves survival and...
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EM Basic Essential Evidence- BMJ Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
This is an article published in the last year in ...
This is an article published in the last year in the British Medical Journal that looked at the sensitivity of modern CT scanners in detecting subarachnoid hemorrhage. This article made a lot of waves because it suggested that a head CT within 6 hours...
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Non-invasive Ventilation
Non-invasive ventilation is a great technique that we can use ...
Non-invasive ventilation is a great technique that we can use for just about any patient who is short of breath. We can use it to avoid intubation in our patients who are close to respiratory failure. In this episode, we'll talk about how...
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EM Basic Essential Evidence- The NEXUS Study
This episode will discuss the NEXUS study. NEXUS was a ...
This episode will discuss the NEXUS study. NEXUS was a study that studied thousands of patients to validate a set of rules so that we can "clinically clear" patients with possible c-spine injury without getting an x-ray. This study has helped us...
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Testicular Pain
All right- let's keep the laughter to a minimum...today's episode ...
All right- let's keep the laughter to a minimum...today's episode is talking about how to approach testicular pain in the ED. You need to know how to approach this chief complaint because if you don't workup the patient correctly, they can lose...
