The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 310
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
SGEM Xtra Zombie Idea: ED Crowding is Due to Non-Urgent Patients
Date: April 1, 2025
This is another SGEM Xtra. I was asked to give a public lecture for the Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health. The topic was the zombie idea that emergency department crow…
00:27:15 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
SGEM Xtra: 5 Papers in 15 Minutes (Incrementum 2025)
Date: March 23, 2025
I was honoured to be invited to speak at Incrementum 2025 in Mercia, Spain. Thank you to Paco, Carmen, and the Incrementum team for putting on one of the best conferences ever. …
00:21:04 |
Sun 23 Mar 2025
SGEM Xtra: On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Citation Errors in the Biomedical Literature
Date: February 22, 2025
Guest Skeptic: Nicholas Peoples, who is a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Nick’s career has been an exciting blend of global health and emerg…
00:45:37 |
Sat 15 Mar 2025
SGEM #470: Here We Go Up Up Up or Lateral for Infant Lumbar Punctures
Reference: Pessano S, et al. Positioning for lumbar puncture in newborn infants. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. December 2023
Date: February 7, 2025
Dr. Lauren Rosenfeld
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Lauren Ros…
00:23:00 |
Sat 08 Mar 2025
SGEM#469: You Take My Breath Away – D-dimer for Ruling out PE in High-Risk Patients
Reference: Bannelier et al. Failure rate of D-dimer testing in patients with high clinical probability of pulmonary embolism: Ancillary analysis of three European studies. AEM Feb 2025
Date: Februar…
00:25:42 |
Sat 01 Mar 2025
SGEM#468: Wide Open Monocytes – Using MDW to Diagnose Sepsis
Reference: Agnello et al. Monocyte distribution width (MDW) as a screening tool for early detecting sepsis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine 2022; 60(…
00:22:14 |
Sat 22 Feb 2025
SGEM Xtra: Rock, Robot Rock – AI for Clinical Research
Date: February 11, 2025
Dr. Ross Prager
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Ross Prager is an Intensivist at the London Health Sciences Centre and an adjunct professor at Western University. His expertise in critic…
Sat 15 Feb 2025
SGEM #467: Send me on my way…without Cervical Spine Imaging
Reference: Leonard JC et al. PECARN prediction rule for cervical spine imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt trauma: a multicentre prospective observational study. Lan…
00:38:49 |
Sat 01 Feb 2025
SGEM#466: I Love ROC-n-Roll…But Not When It’s Hacked
Date: January 9, 2025
Reference: White et al. Evidence of questionable research practices in clinical prediction models. BMC Med 2023
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Jestin Carlson is the Program Director for t…
00:25:12 |
Sat 25 Jan 2025
SGEM Xtra: This is My Fight Song – FeminEM 2.0
Date: January 7, 2025
Dr. Dara Kass
Guest Skeptics: Dr. Dara Kass is an emergency medicine physician, public health leader, and advocate passionate about equity and healthcare reform. She founded F…
01:17:18 |
Sat 18 Jan 2025
SGEM#465: Not A Second Time – Single Center RCTs Fail To Replicate In Multi-Center RCTs
Date: December 2o, 2024
Reference: Kotani et al. Positive single-center randomized trials and subsequent multicenter randomized trials in critically ill patients: a systematic review. Crit Care. 202…
00:35:03 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
SGEM Xtra: Think, About It – Ten Commandments for Teachers
Date: December 6, 2024
Guest Skeptic: Akil Dasan is a multifaceted artist renowned for his talents as a rapper, singer, guitarist, and beatboxer. He gained prominence as a member of the British jazz…
Sat 04 Jan 2025
SGEM#464: I Can Do It with A Broken Heart – Compassion for Patients with OUD
Date: December 26, 2024
Reference: Steinhauser S et al. Emergency department staff compassion is associated with lower fear of enacted stigma among patients with opioid use disorder. AEM December 20…
00:43:33 |
Sat 28 Dec 2024
SGEM Xtra: The 12 Days of Christmas the SGEM Gave to Me
Date: December 15, 2024
Guest Skeptics: Dr. Chris Carpenter, Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic.
Today, we’re sleighing through the holiday season with a special episode filled with sta…
00:20:48 |
Sat 21 Dec 2024
SGEM #463: Like the Legend of the Phoenix… Criteria for Sepsis
Reference: Sanchez-Pinto, L.N., et al. Development and Validation of the Phoenix Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock. JAMA 2024.
Guest Skeptic: Prof. Damian Roland is a Consultant at th…
00:40:54 |
Sat 14 Dec 2024
SGEM Xtra: If I Had A Million Dollars
Date: November 7, 2024
Guest Skeptics: Shirley Ngo is a Digital Product Director at RBC. She has extensive experience working with top financial organizations such as General Electric, Citibank, and…
00:40:48 |
Sat 07 Dec 2024
SGEM#462: Spooky Scary Access – IV or IO for OHCA
Date: November 10, 2024
Reference: Couper et al. The Paramedic 3 Trial: A randomized clinical trial of drug route in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. October 31, 2024 NEJM
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00:25:45 |
Sat 30 Nov 2024
SGEM#461: If You’re Appy and You Know It…Do You Need a Clinical Prediction Score?
Date: November 13, 2024
Reference: Lee WH, et al. Study of Pediatric Appendicitis Scores and Management Strategies: A Prospective Observational Feasibility Study. Academic Emergency Medicine. Dec 20…
Sat 23 Nov 2024
SGEM#460: Why Do I Feel Like, Somebody’s Watching Me – CHARTWatch to Predict Clinical Deterioration
Date: October 28, 2024
Reference: Verma et al. Clinical evaluation of a machine learning–based early warning system for patient deterioration. CMAJ September 2024
Guest Skeptic: Michael Page is cu…
00:32:11 |
Sat 16 Nov 2024
SGEM#459: Domo Arigato Misuta Roboto – Using AI to Assess the Quality of the Medical Literature
Date: October 28, 2024
Reference: Woelfle T et al. Benchmarking Human–AI collaboration for common evidence appraisal tools. J Clin Epi Sept 2024.
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Laura Walker is an Associate Pro…
00:22:56 |
Sat 09 Nov 2024
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