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#458: Hurt So Good –Ketamine Can Make the Hurt so Good – If used as an Adjunct to Opioids for Acute Pain in the Emergency Department
Date: October 29, 2024
Reference: Galili et al. Low dose ketamine as an adjunct to morphine: a randomized controlled trial among patients with and without current opioid use. AEM Oct 2024.
Guest Sk…
Sat 02 Nov 2024
SGEM#457: Inhale – Nebulized or IV Ketamine for Acute Pain?
Date: October 7, 2024
Reference: Nguyen et al. Comparison of Nebulized Ketamine to Intravenous Subdissociative Dose Ketamine for Treating Acute Painful Conditions in the Emergency Department: A Pros…
00:29:01 |
Sat 19 Oct 2024
SGEM #456: We are Young…but we can still Understand
Reference: Ma K et al. A national survey of children’s experiences and needs when attending Canadian pediatric emergency departments. PLoS One. June 2024
Date: Oct 1, 2024
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Andrew…
00:19:47 |
Sat 12 Oct 2024
SGEM#455: Harmony 5000 – Prehospital Detection of Large Vessel Occlusion Strokes
Date: October 2, 2024
Reference: Paxton et al. Headpulse measurement can reliably identify large-vessel occlusion stroke in prehospital suspected stroke patients: Results from the EPISODE-PS-COVID st…
00:33:38 |
Sat 05 Oct 2024
SGEM#454: I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight – Diagnostic Accuracy of D-Dimer for Acute Aortic Syndromes
Date: September 23, 2024
Reference: Essat et al. Diagnostic Accuracy of D-Dimer for Acute Aortic Syndromes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Annals of Emergency Medicine, May 2024
Guest Skeptic: …
00:27:12 |
Sat 28 Sep 2024
SGEM#453: I Can’t Go For That – No, No Narcan for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests
Date: September 18, 2024
Reference: Dillon et al. Naloxone and Patient Outcomes in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests in California. JAMA Network Open. August 20, 2024
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Chris Root is a…
00:25:30 |
Sat 21 Sep 2024
SGEM#452: I’m Still Standing – After the Allergy Challenge
Date: September 12, 2024
Reference: Anderson et al. Full dose challenge of moderate, severe and unknown beta-lactam allergies in the emergency department. AEM August 2024.
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Kirsty C…
00:34:48 |
Sat 14 Sep 2024
SGEM Xtra: I’m Just An Ordinary Average Guy – Dr. Mel Herbert
Date: August 30, 2024
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Mel Herbert is a famous Emergency Medicine Physician, award-winning educator, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Mel founded both EM:RAP which creates and dis…
Sat 31 Aug 2024
SGEM#451: I’ve Become So Numb – Serratus Anterior Plane Blocks for Rib Fractures
Date: August 19, 2024
Reference: Partyka et al. Serratus Anterior Plane Blocks for Early Rib Fracture Pain Management: The SABRE Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Surg 2024
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Sean Bald…
00:25:21 |
Sun 25 Aug 2024
SGEM Xtra: The Final Countdown – To IncrEMentuM 2025
Date: August 13, 2024
Guest Skeptics: We have two guest skeptics for this SGEM Xtra episode.
Dr. Palma
Dr. Francisco Campillo Palma is an Emergency Medicine doctor. He works in prehospital (EMS an…
00:29:57 |
Sat 17 Aug 2024
SGEM#450: Try Again – Andexanet for Factor Xa Inhibitor–Associated Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Date: July 29, 2024
Reference: Connolly SJ et al (ANNEXA-I investigators) Andexanet for Factor Xa Inhibitor–Associated Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage. NEJM May 2024
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Vasisht Srini…
00:37:45 |
Sat 10 Aug 2024
SGEM#449: Bad Boys What’cha Gonna Do – Patient Perceptions of Behavioral Flags in the ED
Date: July 31, 2024
Reference: Gonzales RE, Seeburger EF, Friedman AB, and Agarwal AK. Patient perceptions of behavioral flags in the emergency department: A qualitative analysis. AEM July 2024
Gues…
00:36:53 |
Sat 03 Aug 2024
SGEM#448: More than A Feeling – Gestalt vs CDT for Predicting Sepsis
Reference: Knack et al. Early Physician Gestalt Versus Usual Screening Tools for the Prediction of Sepsis in Critically Ill Emergency Patients. Ann Emerg Med 2024
Date: July 25, 2024
Guest Skeptic:…
00:30:20 |
Sat 27 Jul 2024
SGEM#447: Just What I Needed – Preoxygenation Prior To Intubation
Reference: Gibbs et al. Noninvasive Ventilation for Preoxygenation during Emergency Intubation (The PREOXI trial). NEJM June 2024.
Date: July 17, 2024
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Aine Yore is an Emergency P…
00:24:59 |
Sat 20 Jul 2024
SGEM#446: Finding Pneumo…nia in Febrile Infants
Reference: Florin TA, et al. Radiographic pneumonia in young febrile infants presenting to the emergency department: secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study. Emerg Med J. 2023
Date: May 29,…
00:35:52 |
Sat 13 Jul 2024
SGEM#445: Why Can’t We Be Friends – Conflict in Emergency Medicine
Reference: Tjan et al. Conflict in emergency medicine: A systematic review. AEM June 2024
Date: July 5, 2024
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Lauren Westafer an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency…
00:46:53 |
Sat 06 Jul 2024
SGEM Xtra: When I’m 64 – Old Fashioned Doctors
Date: June 29, 2024
Reference: Herbert L. Fred M.D. (1998) Old-Fashioned Doctors, Hospital Practice.
This is an SGEM Xtra episode. I was honoured to be invited by Dr. Fernada Bellolio to the Mayo …
00:22:11 |
Sun 30 Jun 2024
SGEM#444: I Need Oxygen…But How Much Oxygen for Critically Ill Children
Reference: Peters MJ, et al. Conservative versus liberal oxygenation targets in critically ill children (Oxy-picu): a UK multicentre, open, parallel-group, randomised clinical trial. Lancet. Decembe…
00:24:27 |
Sat 22 Jun 2024
SGEM#443: Don’t Stop Me Now – REBOA for Hemorrhage Control in Trauma Patients?
Reference: Jansen et al. Emergency Department Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta in Trauma Patients With Exsanguinating Hemorrhage: The UK-REBOA Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA…
00:46:25 |
Sat 15 Jun 2024
SGEM#442: I’m on the Right Track Baby I Was Born This Way
Reference: Kruse et al. Systematic Review, Quality Assessment, and Synthesis of Guidelines for Emergency Department Care of Transgender and Gender-diverse People Recommendations for Immediate Action …
Sat 08 Jun 2024
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