The Article PEP under Stress Breathe Conscious control of the autonomic systemTalk Positive self-talk See Mental Rehearsal/Visualization Focus Development and Use of a focus/trigger wordAdditional ResourcesBrindley's CRM for Team Performance Guide Hicks and Petrosoniak on Human Factors in Trauma Resus (Show on this Soon) Anything by Jason … [Read more...]
EMCrit Podcast 211 – Expertise with Anders Ericsson
Mike Lauria set up an interview with Dr. K. Anders Ericsson, first author of . Dr. Ericsson is a brilliant cognitive psychologist, currently at the Florida State. He has dedicated his career to studying the science of expertise and performance. He was incredibly generous with his time, to the tune of a 2-hour interview. In the podcast below, I excerpted some of the most … [Read more...]
EMCrit Podcast 210 – Arterial Lines (Part 1)
Today, we talk about arterial lines. I love arterial lines: monitoring, true MAPs, easy blood draw, easy blood gases, fluid status--what's not to love.This turned into a 2-parter. Part 1 covers radial art lines Here is Arterial Lines - Part 2 covers everything else below The (Essentials of EM)Crit Conferencego to EMCritConference.comuse the promo code "emcrit" … [Read more...]
Podcast 203 – New Reversals for New Anticoagulants with Nadia Awad
This stuff is not sexy and frankly, it hurts my head. That is all the more reason to do a show on the new landscape of NOAC reversal. We must pursue rather than avoid the subjects we are weak on. But I needed someone far smarter than myself--I needed a EM PharmD. Nobody better to speak about this topic than Nadia Awad. Nadia is associate editor of the Emergency Medicine PharmD … [Read more...]
EMCrit 202 – Blood Bank Essentials with Joe Chaffin
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 his extraordinary blog and podcast at bbguy.org. He started BBGuy.org in 1998 primarily to teach pathology residents. Today, the … [Read more...]