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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EM Basic Essential Evidence- Admission for patients with minor head injury on coumadin- Annals of EM
In this episode, we'll talk about a recent article in ...
In this episode, we'll talk about a recent article in Annals of Emergency Medicine that has a lot of people talking. This is a study that looked at patients on coumadin (warfarin) who had minor head injuries. The patients were admitted for 24 hours of...
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Hyperkalemia
Hyperkalemia (high serum potassium) can be one of the most ...
Hyperkalemia (high serum potassium) can be one of the most serious electrolyte disorders that we treat in the ED. We'll review how to interpret hyperkalemia in light of the patient's clinical condition, how to rapidly evaluate a patient with...
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Introducing the EM Basic Apple and Android Apps
This is just a short announcement for the launch of ...
This is just a short announcement for the launch of the EM Basic App in the Apple App Store and the Android Amazon Marketplace. Go to the blog post at embasic.org to see all the information about how to get this new app on your phone or mobile...
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EM Basic Essential Evidence- Rivers Sepsis NEJM
Introducing EM Basic Essential Evidence- your boot camp guide to ...
Introducing EM Basic Essential Evidence- your boot camp guide to emergency medicine literature. Each episode will review an important emergency medicine article from the ground up. We'll review the study's design, basic statistics, results, and wrap...
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Hyponatremia
Hyponatremia (low serum sodium) is one of the most common ...
Hyponatremia (low serum sodium) is one of the most common electrolyte disorders encountered in the ED. Most of the time this electrolyte disorder requires us to do less- not more. However, if the patient is critically ill from their hyponatremia then...
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Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)
In this episode, we will discuss the diagnosis and treatment ...
In this episode, we will discuss the diagnosis and treatment of stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA). The ED is the front line in stroke care so we need to know how to work up this chief complaint. We'll go over how to recognize the signs and...
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Procedural Sedation Part 2- Medications
This episode is part 2 of the procedural sedation podcast. ...
This episode is part 2 of the procedural sedation podcast. This episode focuses on the medications that we commonly use for procedural sedation. First, we'll review the use of oxygen during procedural sedation and then talk about basic airway...
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Procedural Sedation Part 1- Preparation
This is the first of two episodes on procedural sedation. ...
This is the first of two episodes on procedural sedation. In the ED we need to provide safe and effective procedural sedation and analgesia whenever we do painful procedures. It is our job to relieve anxiety and pain in our patients and we need to...
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Neuro exam supplement
Since I refer to the neuro exam from the headache ...
Since I refer to the neuro exam from the headache episode, I decided to take that part of the episode and make a supplement so you can easily review the "5 minute ED neuro exam." Let me know if there are any other topics that you would like me to make...
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Dizziness
We're back with a podcast on...dizziness! While weak and dizzy ...
We're back with a podcast on...dizziness! While weak and dizzy is almost never the most exciting chart in the rack, we see it a lot in the ED. This is a chief complaint where we have to be on the lookout for the serious causes of dizziness among...
