The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine

Posted by admin on Jul 27, 2014

SGEM#84: Don’t You Forget About Me

Podcast Link: SGEM84 Date: July 26th, 2014 This is the 42nd podcast of for this year and the last for Season#2. Why only 42 episodes? Keeping with the hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 42 seems like the right number. But don’t panic, the SGEM will be back in the fall with new episodes. The goal of the SGEM has always being to cut the knowledge translation window down from 10 years to 1 year. It does this...

Posted by admin on Jul 13, 2014

SGEM#83: In Your Eyes (Topical Tetracaine for Corneal Abrasions)

Podcast Link: SGEM83 Date: July 12th, 2014 Rebel Skeptics: Dr. Salim Rezaie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine at the University of Texas at San Antonio. You may better know him from his website REBEL EM or twitter handle @srrezaie. Case Scenario: 47 year old man is playing Marco Polo in the pool with his daughters. He is accidentally hit in the eye...

Posted by admin on Jul 6, 2014

SGEM#82: Melt with You (Targeted Temperature Management)

Podcast Link: SGEM82 Date: July 3rd, 2014 Guest Swedish Skeptics: Katrin Hruska @Akutdok Case Scenario: A 72 year old man has witnessed arrest at the Goderich beach. By-standard CPR is started and he shocked out of ventricular fibrillation by emergency medical services but does not regain consciousness. We know from SGEM#54 that cooling in the field does not improve survival. His temperature on arrival...

Posted by admin on Jun 29, 2014

SGEM#81: Sore Mouth (Lidocaine for Oral Ulcers)

Podcast Link: SGEM81 Date: June 24th, 2014 Guest Skeptics: Meghan Groth (@EMPharmGirl). Meghan is the emergency medicine pharmacy specialist at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vermont and an adjunct professor of pharmacy practice at the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Her professional interests include resuscitation and acute neurologic emergencies. In her free time, you can...

Posted by admin on Jun 22, 2014

SGEM#80: CRASH-2 (Classic Paper)

Podcast Link: SGEM80 Date: June 12th, 2014 Guest Skeptics: Dr. Anand Swaninathan or Swami as his is better known. He is an assistant program director at NYU/Bellevue Hospital in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Case Scenario: You’re working in a busy urban trauma center when EMS slams through the doors with a 22-year-old man who was in a major MVC. The patient has significant abdominal and pelvic...