Total Em - Tools Of The Trade And Academic Learning In Emergency Medicine

We have started partnering with EB Medicine to provide you with some great content.  For our first post, we will cover the use of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) for the pediatric trauma patient.

This is not a podcast covering clinical content.  Instead, the focus will be about being a podcast guest and recording your own podcasts.  For that reason, it may not apply for you right now but if you are ever thinking about doing either, come back here.  Speaking of, we are always looking for guests and if you are interested please contact us.

This is a special sort of "bonus" podcast where we discuss with David Fifer a topic that was brought up entirely for fun: the nocebo effect.  Take a listen as we provide some real life examples of this phenomenon in action.

To celebrate the Fourth of July, David Fifer joined us to talk about heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and the dogma around these conditions.  This topic is one that is frequently misunderstood and David helps us understand the key pearls and pitfalls with heat stress emergencies.

Patrick O'Malley is an emergency medicine physician that invented the IRIG-8 device.  He decided to create a device that he feels is better than what was previously on the market in regards to wound irrigation.  Learn how he developed the device and how he has incorporated it into his practice.

Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is becoming more widely used in a variety of musculoskeletal applications and this includes infectious pathology such as flexor tenosynovitis.  In this blog and podcast, we talk about a recent paper regarding the diagnostic utility of this condition.

Joining Patrick Bafuma again is Dr. John Perkins from Carilion Clinic in Virginia this time to discuss antibiotic stewardship in pediatric patients.

Ken Milne is back to discuss statistical significance to celebrate our 150th podcast.  With the different pearls and pitfalls regarding statistical significance, Ken came back on to try and help us navigate through the process and allow us to better understand what this term actually means.

Patrick Bafuma is back with another interview this time with Dr. John Perkins from Carilion Clinic in Virginia to talk about the post-infectious period as a cardiovascular risk factor.

We just finished helping at AAPA 2019 in Denver, Colorado.  It was a fun time with over 500 learners being taught by excellent faculty.  In this post we talk about the benefits of workshop style courses as well as full courses such as the upcoming Critical Access 2019.

With the recent surge of measles cases, it is important to understand the facts with measles.  In this post we cover a recent paper that reminds us some of the key details.

Quite often, people ask what other podcasts we would recommend.  These are the top 10 podcasts that always have us coming back for more.

In the later half of 2018, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) published their guidelines with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) patients.  These guidelines were beneficial to support some current practices based on current evidence.  In this post, we review the guidelines and some of the supporting evidence.

A relatively recent article, the SHoC-ED trial, can sound like the need for ultrasonography in hypotension is not necessarily beneficial.  In this podcast the trial, along with its strengths and limitations, will be reviewed.

Patrick Bafuma is back to interview Janelle Bludorn for this installment of the EM ID podcast series.  This time they talk about testing for two of the most common sexually transmitted infections (STIs), Gonorrhea and Chlamydia (GC/C).   

Andrew Fisher is not your typical medical student.  In addition to his EMS background, he was a PA in the military.  Now, he is in his third year of medical school and has a passion for education.  This is especially true when it comes to blood products.

Furosemide (frusemide) is a commonly used loop diuretic.  Also known by the commercial name, Lasix, it is well established drug but is prone to some common myths.  To help kill the dogma, we review a recently published paper discussing 10 myths regarding this frequently used medication.

Sometimes, especially during a long shift, we want to ask our patients why they thought they needed to come see us suddenly for a complaint that does not seem emergent.  It can be challenging to remember that our patients seek our help for a variety of reasons.

Recently, our own Chip Lange was on The Skeptic's Guide to Emergency Medicine (The SGEM) for Podcast #249 covering ultrasound to confirm endotracheal tube placement.  This had previously been discussed in detail on our own Podcast #118 along with the technique.  However, after some discussions on social media it was decided to expand on this discussion further regarding the ways to confirm beyond ultrasound.

Thanks to the talents of Patrick Bafuma (who also has the EM in Focus blog), we have a new series on the podcast called Emergency Medicine Infectious Disease (EM ID).  The first podcast is with Lauren Westafer who also is part of the FOAMcast podcast and a FemInEM Speaker.  These two brilliant minds got together to record a podcast on spinal epidural abscess (SEA).