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/
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 600
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Best Case Ever 41 Opiate Misuse and Physician Compassion
Approximately 15-20% of ED patients in the US are prescribed outpatient opiates upon discharge. In Ontario, about 10 people die accidentally from prescription opiates eve…
Episode 70 End of Life Care in Emergency Medicine
Most of us in North America live in cultures that almost never talk about death and dying. And medical progress has led the way to a shift in the culture of dying, in which death has been medicalized…
Episode 70 End of Life Care in Emergency Medicine
Episode 69 Obesity Emergency Management
Current estimates of the prevalence of obesity are that a quarter of adult Canadians and one third of Americans are considered obese with approximately 3% being morbidly obese. With the proportion of…
Episode 69 Obesity Emergency Management
Best Case Ever 39 – Airway Strategy & Mental Preparedness in EM Procedures with Richard Levitan
Best Case Ever 39 – Airway Strategy & Mental Preparedness in EM Procedures with Richard Levitan
I caught up with airway enthusiast, educator and innovator Dr. Richard Levitan at SMACC in Chicago this past June. In this Best Case Ever on Airway Strategy and Mental Preparedness in EM Procedures, …
Episode 68 Emergency Management of Sickle Cell Disease
A recent needs assessment completed in Toronto found that Emergency providers are undereducated when it comes to the Emergency Management of Sickle Cell Disease. This became brutally apparent to me p…
Episode 68 Emergency Management of Sickle Cell Disease
Best Case Ever 38 Sickle Cell Acute Chest Syndrome
Best Case Ever 38 Sickle Cell Acute Chest Syndrome
Sickle Cell Acute Chest Syndrome remains the leading cause of death in patients suffering from Sickle Cell Disease. In his Best Case Ever, Dr. Richard Ward, a hematologist with a special interest in …
Journal Jam 4 – Low Dose Ketamine Analgesia
Journal Jam 4 – Low Dose Ketamine Analgesia
The big question is: How effective is low dose ketamine analgesia for patients with moderate to severe pain in the ED as an adjunct to opiods? Low dose ketamine seems not only to help control pain, b…
Episode 67 Pediatric Pain Management
Pain is the most common reason for seeking health care. It accounts for 80% of ED visits. The WHO has declared that “optimal pain treatment is a human right”. As has been shown in multiple ED-based P…
Episode 67 Pediatric Pain Management
Best Case Ever 37 Neonatal Lazy Feeder
The neonatal lazy feeder is a fairly common EM presentation. On this EM Cases Best Case Ever Dr. Anthony Crocco, the Division Head of Pediatric EM at McMaster University and Medical Director of Pedia…
Best Case Ever 37 Neonatal Lazy Feeder
Episode 66 Backboard and Collar Nightmares from Emergency Medicine Update Conference
In the first of our series on Highlights from North York General's Emergency Medicine Update Conference 2015, Dr. Kylie Booth discusses Backboard and Collar Nightmares. The idea that backboards and …
Episode 66 Backboard and Collar Nightmares from Emergency Medicine Update Conference
In the first of our series on Highlights from North York General's Emergency Medicine Update Conference 2015, Dr. Kylie Booth discusses Backboard and Collar Nightmares. The idea that backboards and …
Best Case Ever 36 Tracheo-innominate Fistula
In this Best Case Ever with Dr. Scott Weingart, the brains behind EMcrit.org, we hear the devastating story of a tracheostomy gone bad. Dr. Weingart shares with us what he has learned about how to ma…