EMCrit Blog – Emergency Department Critical Care & Resuscitation

A Debate on PE Decision Rules

by emcrit 30 June 2011

This may be of interest to you EBM Wonks out there. At one of the resident conferences, I debated David Newman of SMARTEM fame on whether a low risk Wells’ score can be used as a PE rule out criteria.

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EMCrit Podcast 50 – Choose the Solution Based on the Problem

by emcrit 26 June 2011

This is Part 4 of the Acid Base saga. In this episode, I discuss the acid base effects of fluids and when and how to use sodium bicarbonate.

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Hemostatic Resuscitation by Richard Dutton, MD

by emcrit 11 June 2011

Richard Dutton is a trauma anesthesiologist who was one of the primary formulators of the concept of 1:1:1 resuscitation. Here he is speaking on hemostatic resuscitation.

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EMCrit Podcast 49 – The Mind of a Resus Doc: Logistics over Strategy

by emcrit 7 June 2011

This Part I of the Mind of a Resus Doc Series, in which we delve into the philosophies that make a good resuscitationist.

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Bleeding Patients on Dabigatran aka Pradaxa

by emcrit 27 May 2011

Reversal of Dabigatran The incredible folks from hqmeded have put up a video on how to deal with bleeding patients on the new oral anticoagulant, dabigatran… Here is the Hennepin County Reversal Protocol from the Video What I took from this excellent resource: Thrombin Time is probably the best available way to [...]

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EMCrit Podcast 48 – PhD in EKGs Part II: Left Bundle Branch Block

by emcrit 22 May 2011

A few months ago, we had Dr. Stephen Smith on the podcast to discuss a variety of EKG issues. Dr. Smith has an EKG blog that is required reading for every ED and ICU doc. This is Part II and I think it discusses an incredibly important issue: right now major medical societies including the AHA and ACEP are asking us to fibrinolyse or PCI patients with new or presumed new LBBB. However, your interventionalists will tell you that this strategy is a ridiculous waste given how few acute occlusions will actually be found. Why this discrepancy?

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EMCrit Podcast 47 – Failure to Plan for Failure: A Discussion of Airway Disasters

by emcrit 9 May 2011

Cliff Reid of Resus.Me fame put out an incredible post on NAP4, the audit done on all of the airway complications in Great Britain. It was such a phenomenal post that I got in touch with Cliff and asked if he wanted to come on the podcast to speak about it. He did me one better and got an interview with one of the authors of the Emergency and Critical Care Section.

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