If you have just attended one of my two lectures at ACEP 2010, here are the promised additional resources:
EMCrit 32 – Treatment of Severe Hyperkalemia
Hey folks. As I get ready for ACEP, I just wanted to get a quick podcast put up. One of the listeners requested an episode on the treatment of hyperkalemia in the ED.
EMCrit 31 – Intra-Arrest Management
This week we talk about managing the intra-arrest period of cardiac arrest. My paradigm has changed dramatically over the past few years. In the past, I viewed the arrest as a period to teach my residents how to place a subclavian central line, how to intubate when the patient is moving, and how to cram as many drugs as possible into a patient in a short period of time. Looking at how I manage an arrest today, so much has changed.
Product Review: Optyse Ophthalmoscope
After the meningitis episode, one of the listeners, David Thomas, recommended I check out a new opthalmoscope from a UK company.
ACEP Preview – Hemostasis: Stopping the bleeding in a crashing trauma patient
I’m lecturing at ACEP in Las Vegas this year. This is one of two lectures I’m giving there. If you are going to the conference and plan on coming to my lecture, don’t listen to this lecture; I’d rather you here the real one in person.
EMCrit 30 – Hemorrhagic Shock Resuscitation
This week we discuss the resuscitation of the hemorrhagic shock patient with Dr. Richard Dutton, MD.
EMCrit 29 – Procedural Sedation, Part II
It seems the government and other specialties are trying hard to make sedation as difficult as possible in the ED. We must persevere to provide the best procedural sedation to allow maximal comfort and safety for our patients. This continues the discussion started in Part I.
EMCrit 4 – Procedural Sedation – Part I
It seems the government and other specialties are trying hard to make sedation as difficult as possible in the ED. We must persevere to provide the best procedural sedation to allow maximal comfort and safety for our patients. This brief lecture was originally posted on the defunct EMCrit Lecture Site on 8/7/2009.
EMCrit 28 – Meningitis and Severe CNS Infections
Severe CNS Infections are time dependent diagnoses! You must have a high index of suspicion, a good plan for your work-up, and rapid provision of treatment. After seeing a severely ill meningitis patient, I figured I would do a podcast on some tips and pearls on this topic.
EMCrit 27 – Calcium Channel Blocker Overdose
This week, I am joined by Leon Gussow, MD of the excellent blog: The Poison Review (TPR). TPR is my source for new toxicology articles; I highly recommend it as an incredible read. I got to meet Leon for a few beers a month ago; he is just a great guy. My Canadian pal, Ram, suggested calcium channel blocker OD as a podcast episode. Ram, here you go.
EMCrit Lecture – Top Ten Hypothermia Tips
At this stage of the game, if your hospital is not offering hypothermia to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, you are probably lagging behind optimal care. For shockable rhythms, you essentially double your patient’s chances of leaving the hospital with good neurological outcome. However hypothermia can be tough, unless you have done a bunch. Learn from my mistakes in this lecture.
Vent Handout
This post is just to place the vent handout into itunes.
EMCrit 26 – Patient Controlled Analgesia by Edward Gentile
Even when we can’t cure a patient, we can relieve suffering. On average, we kind of stink at pain control in the ED. One physician, Dr. Ed Gentile, has created a simple path to optimal acute pain control in the ED. I heard this lecture on the EM:RAP podcast and got permission from Drs. Gentile and Herbert to repost it here. This is not a critical care topic per se, but it is applicable to the critically ill, the non-critically ill–basically any patient who is in pain in the ED.
EMCrit 25 – End of Life and Palliative Care in the ED
Aggressive palliative care is just as important as aggressive critical care in the ED. Sometimes we will be the first physicians to talk to a family about end of life issues, even if their loved one is terminally ill. Now that is not how it should be, but it just means that we must be just as skilled at family palliative care discussions as we are at floating a transvenous pacer. In this podcast, I discuss my vision of how to handle palliative care issues in the ED.
Q&A: The Two Rams
Two listener questions answered in 5 minutes. One on awake intubation in trauma and the other on intubating the patient with severe RESP acidosis.