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Continue reading...EMCrit Podcast 17 – Reversal of Anti-coagulant and Anti-platelet Drugs in Head Bleeds
So you have a patient with intracranial bleeding or you have a high pre-ct suspicion of intracranial bleeding and they are taking coumadin, aspirin, or clopidogrel. Should you reverse them? If so, how?
Continue reading...EMCrit Podcast 16 – Coding Asthmatic, DOPES and Finger Thoracostomy
Hi folks, Sorry about the voice–got a cold off those damn ED keyboards Thanks to my friend Reuben, this week we’ll talk about the asthmatic patient that codes while on the vent The DOPE mnemonic gives you a path to figure out why a patient is desaturating (If anyone knows who created the DOPE mnemonic, [...]
Continue reading...EMCrit Podcast 15 – the Severe Asthmatic
To PEEP or not to PEEP, that is the question…in the management of the severe asthmatic
Continue reading...EMCrit Podcast 14.5 – A bit more on EGDT
Chris Nickson is an Aussie, oops Kiwi, who is a lead author of a great blog: lifeinthefastlane.com and tweets under the moniker @precordialthump; check him out, he’s doing really good stuff. He wrote a comment about the last podcast– Hey Scott, Great to hear your views and approach to EGDT. I agree with the need [...]
Continue reading...EMCrit Podcast 14 – EGDT Tirade
In this episode I rant and rave about why for the most part Emergency Medicine has disappointed me by not doing something about our sick septic patients. If you are offering aggressive (Early Goal Directed) therapy in the ED, then good on you.
Continue reading...EMCrit Podcast 13 – Trauma Resus II: Massive Transfusion
On this podcast, I recap from last show, especially the concept of bare minimum normotension (called erroneously permissive hypotension by just about everyone else) and why we should keep the MAP higher if there is suspected elevations in intracranial pressure I then talk about massive transfusion. This is probably the best strategy for a patient [...]
Continue reading...EMCrit Podcast 12 – Trauma Resus: Part I
Thought we’d talk about some trauma stuff, specifically the resuscitation of the critically ill hemorrhagic shock patient. There is much to discuss, so this will be a multi-episode affair. Today, we’ll concentrate on the Lethal Triad and BP Goals. Lethal Triad The picture says it all. Bleeding causes acidosis, hypothermia, and coagulopathy. Then the cycle [...]
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Hi, my name is Scott Weingart. 
