Emergency Medicine Cases

In-depth round table discussions with North America's brightest minds in Emergency Medicine on practical practice-changing EM topics since 2010, plus our EM Quick Hit series for a variety of short EM knowledge nuggets, and our Journal Jam series for EBM deep dives. World class Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed). For archived podcast episodes, show notes, quizzes, videos, discussions and an entire EM learning system, visit emergencymedicinecases.com. For donations, please visit https://emergencymedicinecases.com/donation/

Courses Education Medicine Health & Fitness Science

Update frequency: every 16 days
Average duration: 52 minutes
Episodes: 302
Years Active: 2014 - 2025

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Ep 163 Acute Heart Failure ED Management – PoCUS, Oxygenation Strategies, Medication Strategies, PPV HAVoC and SCAPE

In this Part 1 of our two-part series on acute heart failure, Anton is joined by Dr. Tarlan Hedayati and Dr. Bourke Tillman to answer such questions as: how does PoCUS compare with clinical assessmen…

01:05:48 | Wed 15 Dec 2021

EM Quick Hits 34 Carr’s Case, Septic Arthritis vs Transient Synovitis, Managing Tracheostomies, Ethylene Glycol Poisoning, Ketamine for Agitation

Topics in this EM Quick Hits podcast
David Carr the mighty return of Carr's Cases! (00:38)
Sarah Reid on differentiating septic arthritis from transient synovitis in pediatric limp (18:52)
Anand Swam…

00:57:30 | Tue 30 Nov 2021

Ep 162 Managing Adversity with Walter Himmel

I asked Dr. Walter Himmel to give a talk at EM Cases Summit 2021 on what he has learned in 40 years of practice. Herein lies his profoundly thoughtful answer, that is especially relevant during the C…

00:30:20 | Tue 16 Nov 2021

Ep 161 Red Flag Headaches: General Approach and Cervical Artery Dissections

In this Part 1 or our two part podcast series on Red Flag Headaches we discuss a general approach, tips and tricks to assessing patients who present with headache followed by a deep dive into cervic…

01:10:41 | Tue 02 Nov 2021

EM Quick Hits 33 Polytrauma Tips & Tricks, Toxic Megacolon, ECG in PE, Patch Calls, CT Before LP, Nebulized Ketamine

Topics in this EM Quick Hits podcast
Anand Swaminathan on tips and tricks in polytrauma (0:38)
Rohit Mohindra on diagnosis and management of toxic megacolon (7:31)
Jesse McLaren on ECG in pulmonary e…

00:41:34 | Tue 19 Oct 2021

Journal Jam 19 Therapeutic Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest – Mixed Evidence

Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest is not new. It was a thing 5000 years ago in Egypt. Fast forward to the 20th century and the first clinical trial of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac…

01:10:25 | Tue 05 Oct 2021

EM Quick Hits 32 Checkpoint Inhibitors, Adult Epiglotitits, HSP, Heat Stroke, Bell’s Palsy and Leukemia

Topics in this EM Quick Hits podcast
Walter Himmel on new diseases associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (00:54)
Leeor Sommer on the evolution of epiglottitis - adult epiglottitis clinical pea…

00:43:59 | Tue 21 Sep 2021

Ep 160 Geriatric Trauma 2 Rib Fractures, Pelvic Fractures, Prognostication, Elder Abuse, Discharge Planning

In part 1 of this 2-part podcast series on Geriatric Trauma Barbara Haas, Bourke Tillmann, Camilla Wong and Anton discussed the problem of under-triaging geriatric trauma patients, resuscitation and…

00:44:42 | Tue 07 Sep 2021

Ep 159 Geriatric Trauma Part 1: The Under-Triaging Problem, Resuscitation, Airway, Head and C-spine Imaging, Clearing the C-spine

Just as pediatric patients are not small adults, geriatric patients are not just old adults. Here are a few facts: the oldest old are the fastest growing population in North America. Older adults wit…

01:15:27 | Tue 24 Aug 2021

EM Quick Hits 31 NG Tubes in SBO, Hyperacute T-Waves, Malignant Otitis Externa, CCTA in NSTEMI and Low-risk Chest Pain, Canadian Syncope Score

Topics in this EM Quick Hits podcast
Justin Morgenstern on the evidence for nasogastric tubes in small bowel obstruction (0:52)
Jesse MacLaren on hyperacute T-waves and occlusion myocardial infarctio…

00:40:11 | Tue 10 Aug 2021

Ep 158 Management of Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax

There is perhaps no single diagnosis where we see such a huge practice variation than in the management of spontaneous pneumothorax. Even the definition of what a large, tube-in-the-chest-worthy pneu…

00:59:47 | Tue 27 Jul 2021

EM Quick Hits 30 Scaphoid Fracture, Therapeutic Hypothermia, HEADS-ED, Pelvic Trauma, Kratom, Femoral Lines

Topics in this EM Quick Hits podcast
Arun Sayal on nuances for assessment of scaphoid fractures (0:52)
Justin Morgenstern on the TTM2 trial and temperature management after cardiac arrest (7:42)
Sara…

00:37:16 | Tue 13 Jul 2021

Journal Jam 18 The Evidence for TXA – Should Tranexamic Acid Be Routine Therapy in the Bleeding Patient?

TXA has been widely adopted as an effective drug for improving outcomes of patients who are bleeding from a variety of sources, even though many of the trials' conclusions are contentious. One of the…

01:25:23 | Tue 29 Jun 2021

EM Quick Hits 29 Vasopressor Failure, Asplenic Considerations, Bronchiolitis Update, ICD Electrical Storm, Night Shift Tips

Topics in this EM Quick Hits podcast
Anand Swaminathan on occult causes of non-response to vasopressors (0:54)
Brit Long & Michael Gottlieb on overwhelming post-splenectomy infection (OPSI) (7:45)
Sa…

00:36:45 | Tue 15 Jun 2021

Ep157 Neuromuscular Disease for Emergency Medicine

There is a long list of rare neuromuscular diseases. Nonetheless, there are a few that you are likely to see in the ED, that are relevant to Emergency Medicine because they require timely diagnosis a…

00:44:12 | Tue 01 Jun 2021

Ep156 ED Approach to Acute Motor Weakness

Whenever I pick up a patient in the ED, I’m always delighted to see the chief complaint of weakness. It’s almost as exciting as the chief complaint of dizziness; but not quite as exhilarating as the …

01:03:56 | Tue 18 May 2021

EM Quick Hits 28 Cardiogenic Shock, Radiation Dose in Pregnancy, PoCUS in Airway Management, VIPIT, Angiotensin II, Short-Term Steroid Safety

Topics in this EM Quick Hits podcast
Anand Swaminathan on an approach to cardiogenic shock (0:53)
Hania Bielawska on myths of radiation dose in pregnant patients (8:55)
Hans Rosenberg & Michael Gottl…

00:48:17 | Tue 04 May 2021

Ep 155 Treatment of Bradycardia and Bradydysrhythmias

In Part 1 of our 2-part series on bradycardia and bradydysrhythmias we discussed a practical approach with electrophysiologist Paul Dorian and EM doc Tarlan Hedayati. In this, part 2, we discuss deta…

00:47:32 | Tue 20 Apr 2021

Ep 154: 4-Step Approach to Bradycardia and Bradydysrhythmias

Not all bradycardias were created equal. How do we figure out when bradycardia is due to a medical illness and when it is a primary cardiac problem? What are the 4 immediate life threatening diagnosi…

01:06:06 | Tue 06 Apr 2021

EM Quick Hits 27 Colchicine for COVID, Bicarb in Cardiac Arrest, Troponin in CKD, GHB Withdrawal, Iloprost for Frostbite, Patient Complaints

Topics in this EM Quick Hits podcast
Justin Morgenstern on colchicine for COVID pneumonia (0:52)
Victoria Myers on sodium bicarbonate in cardiac arrest (6:25)
Brit Long on troponin in chronic kidney …

00:44:03 | Tue 23 Mar 2021

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