BCE 76 Opioid Withdrawal
In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 116 on Opioid Misuse, Overdose and Withdrawal, Dr. Michelle Klaiman, Addictions and Emergency Medicine specialist, tells her Best Case Ever exemplifying how we can positively impact the lives of ED patients for years to come - even when they present with simple, run-of-the-mill diagnoses - by thinking outside the box and doing brief screening and interventions for patients with opioid use disorder. She discusses alternative pain control options as well as the use of suboxone to treat opioid withdrawal and opioid addiction.Best Case Ever exemplifying how we can positively impact the lives of ED patients for years to come, even when they present with simple, run-of-the-mill diagnoses, by thinking outside the box and doing brief screening and interventions for patients with opioid use disorder.
CritCases 11 LVAD Management in the GI Bleed Patient
In this CritCases blog Mike Misch presents a case of a patient with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) with a postoperative acute lower GI bleed and answers practical questions such as: How do you measure blood pressure in a patient with an LVAD? What are the common complications of LVADs that we must be aware of? What information can the LVAD controller provide? Why are LVAD patients at high risk for bleeding? and many more...
EMU 365 Pediatric Elbow Nightmares with Arun Sayal
This is the 2nd instalment of The Emergency Medicine Update Conference's recently launched EMU 365 video series. In this EMU 65 video, Dr. Arun Sayal, an emergency physician who runs a weekly minor fracture clinic at NYGH discusses his approach to pediatric elbow injuries, the importance of good lateral images, common and uncommon missed elbow injuries and clinically important epicondylar fractures that can mimic normal ossification centers and more...
Ep 115 Emergency Management of the Agitated Patient
Managing acutely agitated patients can cause anxiety in even the most seasoned emergency doctor. These are high risk patients and they are high risk to you and your ED staff. It’s important to understand that agitation or agitated delirium is a cardinal presentation – not a diagnosis. There is pathology lurking beneath - psychiatric, medical, traumatic and toxicological diagnoses driving these patients and we just won’t know which until we can safely calm them down...
EMU 365 New Video Series Launched!
North York General's Emergency Medicine Update Conference has just launched EMU 365 video series! Videos of some of their premier plenary speakers will be released periodically to bring you Emergency Medicine Update year round! These are edited talks from some of North America's greatest speakers in Emergency Medicine. In this EMU 65 video, Dr. Justin Morgenstern reviews high yield, practice changing EM articles including: alternative options to treat nausea or vomiting in the ED including isopropyl alcohol and haloperidol, the best method of preoxygenation, controversies around post-contrast acute kidney injury, best method of immobilization for pediatric forearm buckle injuries and more...
EM Cases Course 2019 Speakers Line Up!
After getting feedback from our sold out courses in 2016, 2017 and 2018, we have a superlative line up in store for you, with more live podcasts, small group workshops, prizes, fun learning and ready for it......we've added a second day to the course dedicated entirely to simulation...