Emergency Medicine Cases

Experts like Sarah Reid, Brit Long, Justin Morgenstern, and others discuss Infant Vomiting, Orbital Cellulitis essentials, Prehospital TXA in Trauma, Prevention and Treatment of Delirium, Procedural Skills Decay, and Altitude Sickness in this informative podcast.

Dr. Ben McKenzie, EM physician and a PhD candidate, discusses the AMAX4 algorithm for anaphylaxis and asthma resuscitation. Topics include predicting severity, securing the airway, simulations, paralytics and bronchodilators, and taking action against anaphylaxis and severe asthma.

Topics discussed on this podcast include the role of methylene blue in septic shock, techniques for reducing TMJ dislocations, a phenotypic approach to Crohn's disease emergencies, evidence-based analgesics in renal colic, the importance of inhaled steroids for asthma treatment, and the current state of hypocalcemia in bleeding trauma patients.

Drs. Nash and Ngo discuss traumatic dental emergencies, including reimplantation of avulsed teeth, time-sensitive dental trauma emergencies, imaging techniques, preferred solution for avulsed tooth transport, dental splinting methods, handling avulsed teeth, indications for antibiotics, chlorhexidine rinses, treatment for persistent dental hemorrhage, anatomy of teeth and fractures, signs of trauma and dental pain management, types of dental blocks for pain relief, and use of antibiotics in dental trauma.

This podcast covers atraumatic dental emergencies such as infections, cellulitis, acute necrotizing gingivitis, pericoronitis, and dry socket. It discusses the causes and management of dental pain, treatment options for dental infections, and atramatic dental pain and its management. The hosts also explore various dental emergencies and their management, including signs of deep facial pain infection and abscesses.

On this month's EM Quick Hits podcast David Carr on differential diagnosis of normal unenhanced CT renal colic, Leeor Sommer on recognition and management of perichondritis and auricular abscess, Suzanne Schuh on IV magnesium sulphate for pediatric asthma, Jess McLaren on Occlusion MI ECG interpretation requiring cath lab activation and Justin Morgenstern on update on steroids for pneumonia... Please support EM Cases with a donation: https://emergencymedicinecases.com/donation/

We miss potentially dangerous and even lethal drug interactions in EM more often than we realize. In this main episode EM Cases podcast with Dr. David Juurlink and Dr. Walter Himmel we review the common categories of drugs, the high risk patients and the key drug interactions that we need to know about in Emergency Medicine... Please support EM Cases by giving a donation: https://emergencymedicinecases.com/donation/

On this month's EM Quick HIts podcast: Anand Swaminathan on EVT for large vessel occlusion strokes, Sarah Reid on picking up intussusception, Andrew Petrosoniak on 5 Penetrating Trauma Tips, Peter Toth on using a slit lamp to manage skin foreign body hack, Nour Khatib and Jonathan Wallace on CT Radiation Risk and Matt Poyner on setting up an emergency fund...

In this part 2 of our 2-part series on STIs with Dr. Catherine Varner and Dr. Robyn Shafer we answer such questions as: Why should we care about making the diagnosis of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in the ED? What combination of clinical features and lab tests should trigger a presumptive diagnosis and empiric treatment of PID? Which patients with PID require admission to hospital? What are the test characteristics of ultrasound for the diagnosis of PID and for Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome? When and how should we work up  patients for syphilis in the ED? When should we suspect and empirically treat for lymphogranuloma venereum and granuloma inguinale? does an IUD need to be removed in patients with PID? and many more...

In this Part 1 or our two-part podcast series on STIs we discuss a general approach to cervicitis, vulvovaginitis and urethritis, elucidate some key historical features, debate who needs a pelvic exam in the ED, understand who needs what testing, debate self swabs vs physician taken swabs, dig into some specific under-recognized organisms like Mycoplasma Genitalium, figure out who needs what kind of empiric treatment, sexual partner treatment and which discharge instructions are key...