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...
Best Case Ever 60 What we can learn from Prehospital Trauma Management
In this EM Cases podcast Dr. Joel Lockwood tells his Best Case Ever of a prehospital trauma resuscitation, bringing to light the challenges faced by EMS with the complicated trauma patient. He discusses the importance of checklists, practice and simulation to help streamline the process, offloading some cognitive burden, prepare the team, reduce the change of errors, improve efficiency and etch actions into each team member's muscle memory.
Episode 98 Teaching on Shift
We discuss some quick, easy tips on how you can take your educating skills to the next level, from orienting the learner and establishing expectations at the start of the shift, to key questioning techniques to use in case presentations, to the lost art of active observation, to the One Minute Preceptor model, to giving effective end-of-shift feedback, medicine’s white whale. We end with a surprise appearance by another master educator who gives his top pearls on teaching on shift. This podcast is about how, on your next ED shift, you can make the most of every teachable moment...
New Sickle Cell Disease Management Rapid Reviews Video
Our EM Cases feature Rapid Reviews Videos is growing! The latest release covers the main episode on Emergency Management of Sickle Cell Disease with John Foote and Richard Ward. In this video Michelle Yee reviews the key questions on history when assessing patients with sickle cell disease, the complications of sickle cell disease, an approach to pain and symptom management, and common misconceptions/pitfalls in emergency management of sickle cell disease pain crisis....