Episode 100 Disaster Medicine
As ED docs we’re particularly well suited to take a lead in disaster medicine. We own this. In this EM Cases podcast, with the help of Laurie Mazurik, Daniel Kollek and Joshua Bezanson we will help you become familiar with a general approach to mass casualties, how to handle critical infrastructure disruption in your ED, management of biohazards including airway management, chemical hazards including decontamination and finally evacuation principles in the case of a natural disaster...
EM Cases Course 2018 Speakers Announced!
Announcing the speaker line-up for the 3rd annual EM Cases Course, February 3rd, 2018 in Toronto. After getting feedback from our sold out courses in 2016 and 2017 we have a superlative line up in store for you, with live podcasts, small group workshops, prizes and fun learning...
Best Case Ever 61 Biohazard Preparedness: The Protected Code Blue
In anticipation of EM Cases Main Episode 100 on Disaster Medicine with Laurie Mazurik, David Kollek and Joshua Bezanson, Dr. Mazurik tells of her experience as a disaster medicine leader with keeping health care workers safe during the SARS era. If you were faced with a patient with suspected Ebola or drug resistant TB or any other biohazard patient who required intubation, would you know how to handle the situation so that you and your colleagues were safe...
Episode 99 Highlights from EMU 2017
North York General Hospital's 30th Annual Emergency Medicine Update (EMU) Conference 2017 featured some of the best talks I've ever heard from the likes of Sara Gray, Amal Mattu, David Carr and many more. I had a hard time choosing which talks to feature on this EM Cases podcast. I settled on a potpourri of clinical topics and practice tips: Leeor Sommer on Lyme disease, Chris Hicks on signover, Matt Poyner on patient complaints and Walter Himmel on acute vestibular syndrome...
New Rapid Reviews Videos on TIA
The EM Cases Rapid Reviews Videos library is growing! You might have had trouble remembering all the details of Episode 6 on TIA from a few years back with Walter Himmel and Daniel Selchen. But don't fret! In these short videos Eileen Cheung reviews the differential diagnosis of a TIA and its key features, the 4 types of TIA, the 4 key ED investigations for a TIA, the acute ED management of a TIA, risk-stratification and disposition decision in TIA and lastly as a special bonus, an approach to vertigo...
CritCases 8 Management of Elevated ICP
In this CritCases blog - a collaboration between STARS Air Ambulance Service, Mike Betzner and EM Cases, we take you through a not uncommon stroke presentation which then develops into a challenge with regard to management of elevated ICP, hypertension and the airway...