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EMCrit Podcast 9 – Can you take sick patients to ct?
Does the EM ban on letting sick patients go to CT scan make sense? Listen to the podcast and then register your opinion.
EMCrit Podcast 7 – Sedation Tirade
Hi folks, this podcast is really brief–I gave a lecture at Jacobi last week (thanks for having me Jacobites!), and in response to a question I gave this rant on my vision of sedation after intubation.
EMCrit Podcast 6 – Push-Dose Pressors
Note: Please listen to the PDP update episode either before or immediately after listening to this one Finally a non-intubation topic! Bolus dose pressors and inotropes have been used by the anesthesiologists for decades, but they have not penetrated into standard emergency medicine practice. I don’t know why. They are the perfect solution to short-lived hypotension, e.g. post-intubation or […]
EMCrit Podcast 5 – Intubating the Critical GI Bleeder
We’ve had a few gruesome airways in patients with GI bleeds and bellies full of coffee ground emesis. This is a top 10 list encompassing my approach to this difficult situation: 1. Empty the Stomach Place a salem sump and suck out all of the stomach contents. Varices are not a contraindication (see: Digest Dis 1973;18(12):1032, Gastrointest Endosc. 2004 […]