Making A Medical Murderer with Dr. Brent Furbee Join Dan (@drusyniak) &Howard (@heshiegreshie) as they speak with Dr. Brent Furbee about Orville Lynn Majors, Jr. a nurse serial killer who was convicted of the murder of 7 patients, but was likely involved in countless others. Find out why nurses know, doctors deny, and administrators push […]
EM Nerd-The Case of the Costly Compound
Epinephrine has been a fundamental therapeutic agent in the management of cardiac arrest since the inception of advanced life support. Despite its ubiquitous use, this practice has never been supported by high quality evidence. With the publication of the PARAMEDIC-2 trial by Perkins et al1, we are now far closer to understanding the true value […]
EMCrit Podcast 34 – 2010 ACLS Guidelines
The brand new ACLS & BCLS guidelines were published last week. Not huge changes, but some good stuff! The free full text is available at the Circulation website. It takes hours to make your way through all of it. I boiled it down to just the facts and posted a summary on the EMCrit site. In this EMCrit Podcast I discuss some of the highlights that I think are particularly important.
EMCrit Podcast 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.