Online Medical Education on Emergency Department (ED) Critical Care, Trauma, and Resuscitation
As a medical student I rotated through an elite hospital where it was believed that every patient admitted to the medicine service needed a rectal exam. The rationale was to avoid ever missing a case of rectal or prostate cancer. Eventually, the … Read more
This lecture reviews the fundamental concepts regarding fluid administration and hemodynamic monitoring in the critically illThe viewer may also be interested in the lecture on the utility of the CVP … Read more
Whether you are aware of it our not, three major assumptions are present when employing any diagnostic strategy in the Emergency Department. First, that the diagnostic test in question will identify a group of patients at risk of a poor outcome due … Read more
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak –Hans Hofmann We live in complex times. Resuscitation has gone endovascular, microvascular, mitochondrial. EPR, ED-ECMO, REBOA--it’s a fascinating … Read more
I wanted to do a show on the basics of the blood bank and there was no better guest than Joe Chaffin, MD. He is the CMO of the Lifestream Blood Center and a pathologist with expertise in transfusion medicine. I first came across Dr. Chaffin due to … Read more
Hi, my name is Scott Weingart.
I am an ED
Intensivist from New York. Along with my friends, we are attempting to provide and teach Maximally Aggressive Care, Everywhere! From the field to the ICU, EMCrit is about optimal critical care and resuscitation.