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: Float Away, Float Away, Float Away – from Misinformation
Date: March 26th, 2022
Guest Skeptic: Professor Melanie Trecek-King Associate professor of biology at Massasoit Community College in Massachusetts. Founder and creator of Thinking Is Power.
Referen…
01:28:22 |
Sat 26 Mar 2022
SGEM#362: Screen Time – Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You – But Should I Post-Concussion?
Date: March 3rd, 2022
Reference: Macnow et al. Effect of Screen Time on Recovery From Concussion: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatrics 2021
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Catherine Varner is an Assista…
00:21:34 |
Sat 12 Mar 2022
SGEM#361: Under My Umbrella, Ella, Ella – Review of Meta-Analyses in Emergency Medicine
Date: February 24th, 2022
Reference: Parish et al. An umbrella review of effect size, bias, and power across meta-analyses in emergency medicine. AEM 2021
Guest Skeptic: Professor Daniel Fatovich i…
00:53:21 |
Sat 05 Mar 2022
SGEM#360: We Care a Lot – The EmPATH Study
Date: February 21st 2022
Reference: Kim et al. Emergency psychiatric assessment, treatment, and healing (EmPATH) unit decreases hospital admission for patients presenting with suicidal ideation in ru…
00:29:49 |
Sat 26 Feb 2022
SGEM Xtra: Everybody Hurts, Sometime
Date: February 15th, 2022
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Tim Graham is a Clinical Professor of emergency medicine at the University of Alberta, and Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Edmonton Zone, of…
00:51:00 |
Sat 19 Feb 2022
SGEM#359: Meet Me Halfway on the Duration of Antibiotics for Non-Severe Pediatric Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Date: February 7th, 2022
Reference: Williams et al. Short- vs standard-course outpatient antibiotic therapy for community-acquired pneumonia in children: the scout-cap randomized clinical trial. J…
00:23:10 |
Sat 05 Feb 2022
SGEM#358: I Would Do Anything for Septic Olecranon Bursitis But I Won’t Tap That
Date: January 25th, 2022
Reference: Beyde et al. Efficacy of empiric antibiotic management of septic olecranon bursitis without bursal aspiration in emergency department patients. AEM January 2022
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00:25:02 |
Sat 29 Jan 2022
SGEM#357: COVID it’s Getting Harder and Harder to Breathe but will Budesonide Help?
Date: January 22nd, 2022
Reference: Yu et al. Inhaled budesonide for COVID-19 in people at high risk of complications in the community in the UK (PRINCIPLE): a randomised, controlled, open-label, ad…
00:23:35 |
Sat 22 Jan 2022
SGEM#356: Drugs are Gonna Knock You Out – Etomidate vs. Ketamine for Emergency Endotracheal Intubation
Date: January 16th, 2022
Reference: Matchett, G. et al. Etomidate versus ketamine for emergency endotracheal intubation: a randomized clinical trial. Intensive Care Med 2021
Guest Skeptic: Missy Ca…
00:19:01 |
Sat 15 Jan 2022
SGEM#355: Bigger Isn’t Better When It Comes to Chest Tubes
Date: December 28th, 2021
Reference: Kulvatunyou et al. The small (14 Fr) percutaneous catheter (P-CAT) versus large (28–32 Fr) open chest tube for traumatic hemothorax: A multicenter randomized cli…
00:22:35 |
Sat 08 Jan 2022
SGEM#354: Everybody Walk the Dinosaur and Not Take the MSU
Date: December 21st, 2021
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Howard “Howie” Mell began his career as a firefighter / paramedic in Chicago. He became double board certified in Emergency Medicine (EM) and Emergency M…
00:48:40 |
Sat 01 Jan 2022
SGEM#353: At the COCA, COCA for OCHA
Date: December 21st, 2021
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Spencer Greaves is an Emergency Medicine resident at Florida Atlantic University. He received his Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering from Marquette Univ…
00:26:13 |
Sat 25 Dec 2021
SGEM#352: Amendment – Addressing Gender Inequities in Academic Emergency Medicine
Date: December 13th, 2021
Reference: Lee et al. Addressing gender inequities: Creation of a multi-institutional consortium of women physicians in academic emergency medicine. AEM December 2021
Gues…
00:34:12 |
Sat 18 Dec 2021
SGEM Xtra: Change the World – Honoring Dr. Rakesh Engineer
Date: December 10th, 2021
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Carly Eastin is an Associate Professor, Division of Research and Evidence Based Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arkansas for Me…
00:22:45 |
Sun 12 Dec 2021
SGEM#351: How to Stop Geriatrics from Free Fallin’
Date: November 16th, 2021
Reference: Hammouda et al. Moving the Needle on Fall Prevention: A Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) Network Scoping Review and Consensus Statement. AEM Nov…
00:30:15 |
Sat 20 Nov 2021
SGEM#350: How Did I Get Epi Alone? Vasopressin and Methylprednisolone for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests
Date: November 10th, 2021
Reference: Andersen, et al: Effect of Vasopressin and Methylprednisolone vs Placebo on Return of Spontaneous Circulation in Patients With In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. JAMA S…
00:26:40 |
Sat 13 Nov 2021
SGEM#349: Can tPA Be A Bridge Over Trouble Waters to Mechanical Thrombectomy?
Date: November 1st, 2021
Reference: Katsanos et al. Utility of Intravenous Alteplase Prior to Endovascular Stroke Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of RCTs. Neurology 2021
Guest Skep…
00:36:38 |
Sat 06 Nov 2021
SGEM#348: Take the Long Med Home – for Cellulitis
Date: October 20th, 2021
Reference: Talan et al. Pathway with single-dose long-acting intravenous antibiotic reduces emergency department hospitalizations of patients with skin infections. AEM Octob…
00:38:45 |
Sat 23 Oct 2021
SGEM Xtra: From EBM to FBM – Gender Equity in the House of Medicine
Date: October 7th, 2021
This is an SGEM Xtra episode. I had the honour of co-presenting at the Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Department of Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds. …
00:54:00 |
Sun 10 Oct 2021
SGEM#347: It Don’t Matter to Me – Balanced Solution or Saline
Date: September 28th, 2021
Reference: Zampieri et al. Effect of Intravenous Fluid Treatment With a Balanced Solution vs 0.9% Saline Solution on Mortality in Critically Ill Patients: The BaSICS Rando…
00:25:16 |
Sun 03 Oct 2021
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