The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine
Meet 'em, greet 'em, treat 'em and street 'em
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 310
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
SGEM Xtra: Right, You’re Bloody Well Right, You’ve got the Bloody Right to Care
Date: January 27th, 2020
Guest Skeptics: Dr. Richelle Cooper is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Maia Dorsett is an Emergency and EMS Physician at …
00:39:01 |
Sat 22 Feb 2020
SGEM#284: Might as Well Jump, but We would Recommend a Parachute
Date: February 11th, 2020
Reference: Yeh et al. Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial. BMJ 2018.
Guest Skeptic: Marcus Prescott is a…
00:20:29 |
Sat 15 Feb 2020
SGEM#283: Can You Be Absolutely Right in Diagnosing a SAH Using a Clinical Decision Instrument?
Date: January 29th, 2020
Reference: Perry et al. Prospective Implementation of the Ottawa Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Rule and 6-Hour Computed Tomography Rule. Stroke 2019
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Rory Spiege…
00:23:58 |
Sat 08 Feb 2020
SGEM#281ss: Balance of Prognostic Factors in Randomized Controlled Trials
Date: January 25th, 2020
SGEM#281: EM Docs Got an AmbuBag
Statistically Significant: Dan Lane
We want to make the SGEM even better and address some of the criticisms from the ClinEpi world abo…
00:02:43 |
Wed 29 Jan 2020
SGEM#281: EM Docs Got an AmbuBag – The PreVent Trial
Date: January 9th, 2020
Reference: Casey et al. Bag-Mask Ventilation during Tracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults. NEJM February 2019
Guest Skeptic: Andrew Merelman is a critical care paramed…
00:15:05 |
Sat 25 Jan 2020
SGEM Xtra: It’s All About the Bayes, ‘Bout the Bayes, No Fisher
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Dan Lane has a Masters in Health Services Research at the University of Calgary, a Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Toronto and is currently a m…
00:09:46 |
Wed 22 Jan 2020
SGEM#280: This Old Heart of Mine and Troponin Testing
Date: January 16th, 2020
Reference: Troponin Testing and Coronary Syndrome in Geriatric Patients With Nonspecific Complaints: Are We Overtesting? AEM January 2020
Guest Skeptics:
Dr. James Vande…
00:30:11 |
Sat 18 Jan 2020
SGEM#279: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me and Use a Placebo Control for a Migraine Trial?
Date: January 10th, 2020
Reference: Dodick DW et al. Ubrogepant for the Treatment of Migraine. NEJM 2019
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Anand Swaminathan is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at St. J…
00:32:34 |
Sat 11 Jan 2020
SGEM Xtra: Come Together, Right Now – Over Renal Colic
Date: December 16th, 2019
Reference: Moore et al. Imaging in Suspected Renal Colic: Systematic Review of the Literature and Multispecialty Consensus. Annals of EM, JU, and JACR 2019.
Dr. Chris Mo…
00:28:24 |
Sat 28 Dec 2019
SGEM Xtra: NNT – WET or DRI
Date: December 17th, 2019
Reference: Reeves and Reynolds. The NNT-WET and NNT-DRI: (Mostly) Satirical New Metrics to Emphasize the Inherent Inefficiency of Clinical Practice. AEM Dec 2019.
Guest …
00:31:51 |
Sat 21 Dec 2019
SGEM#278: Seen Your Video for Acute Otitis Media Discharge Instructions?
Date: December 13th, 2019
Reference: Belisle et al. Video discharge instructions for acute otitis media in children: a randomized controlled open-label trial. AEM December 2019
Guest Skeptic: Dr. C…
00:28:50 |
Sat 14 Dec 2019
SGEM Xtra: Strange BRUE
Date: October 2nd, 2019
Reference: Ramgopal et al. Changes in the Management of Children With Brief Resolved Unexplained Events (BRUEs). Pediatrics 2019
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Katie Noorbakhsh is a p…
00:15:04 |
Sat 07 Dec 2019
SGEM#277: In the Pregnant YEARS – Diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism
Date: November 13th, 2019
Reference: van der Pol et al. Pregnancy-Adapted YEARS Algorithm forDiagnosis of Suspected Pulmonary Embolism. NEJM 2019
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Theresa Robertson-Chenier is cur…
00:25:15 |
Sat 30 Nov 2019
SGEM#276: FOCUS on PE in Patients with Abnormal Vital Signs
Date: November 21st, 2019
Reference: Daley et al. Increased Sensitivity of Focused Cardiac Ultrasound for Pulmonary Embolism in Emergency Department Patients With Abnormal Vital Signs. AEM November …
00:39:17 |
Sat 23 Nov 2019
SGEM#275: 10th Avenue Freeze Out – Therapeutic Hypothermia after Non-Shockable Cardiac Arrest
Date: November 6th, 2019
Reference: Lascarrou et al. Targeted Temperature Management for Cardiac Arrest with Nonshockable Rhythm. NEJM Oct 2019
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Laura Melville (@lmelville535) is …
00:26:34 |
Sat 16 Nov 2019
SGEM#274: Hocus POCUS for Appendicitis?
Date: November 2nd, 2019
Reference: Lee and Yun. Diagnostic Performance of Emergency Physician-Performed Point-of-Care Ultrasonography for Acute Appendicitis: A Meta-Analysis. AJEM 2019.
Guest Skep…
00:22:49 |
Sat 09 Nov 2019
SGEM#273: My Buddy (Tape) for Boxer’s Fractures
Date: October 29th, 2019
Reference: Pellatt et al. Is Buddy Taping as Effective as Plaster Immobilization for Adults With an Uncomplicated Neck of Fifth Metacarpal Fracture? A Randomized Controlled …
00:18:01 |
Sat 02 Nov 2019
SGEM#272: Take the Money and Run without Getting a CT
Date: October 22nd, 2019
Reference: Iyengar R et al. The Effect of Financial Incentives on Patient Decisions to Undergo Low-value Head Computed Tomography Scans. AEM October 2019.
Guest Skeptic: Dr…
00:46:06 |
Sat 26 Oct 2019
SGEM#271: Bougie Wonderland for First Pass Success
Date: October 17th, 2019
Reference: Driver et al. Effect of Use of a Bougie vs Endotracheal Tube and Stylet on First-Attempt Intubation Success Among Patients With Difficult Airways Undergoing Emerg…
00:27:35 |
Sat 19 Oct 2019
SGEM#270: CRASH-3 TXA for Traumatic Head Bleeds?
Date: October 14th, 2019
Reference: CRASH-3 Trial Collaborators. Effects of tranexamic acid on death, disability, vascular occlusive events and other morbidities in patients with acute traumatic bra…
00:20:37 |
Mon 14 Oct 2019
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