The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine

Posted by admin on Apr 19, 2014

SGEM#71: Like a Rolling Kidney Stone (A Systematic Review of Renal Colic)

Podcast Link: SGEM71 Date: April 11, 2014 Classic Guest Skeptics: Dr. Anthony (Tony) Seupaul Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Dr. Joshua Hughes one of his star residents. Case Scenario: A 36 yr old previously healthy white male that comes into the emergency department mid morning one Sunday after about 10 hours of right flank pain he...

Posted by admin on Apr 16, 2014

Best of BEEM (BoB) Talk SRPC 2014

Dr. Anthony Crocco and I were invited to present at the 22nd Annual Rural and Remote Medicine Course hosted by the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada (SRPC) last month. The meeting took place in beautiful Banff, Alberta at the Fairmont Banff Springs. We presented a Best of BEEM (BoB) Talk. The BoB Talk was very well attended and we covered 6 of the practice changing papers published in the emergency...

Posted by admin on Apr 13, 2014

SGEM#70: The Secret of NINDS (Thrombolysis for Acute Stroke)

Podcast Link: SGEM70 Date: April 8, 2014 Classic Guest Skeptic: Dr. Anand Swaninathan or Swami to his friends. He is an assistant program director at NYU/Bellevue Hospital in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Swami is an emergency medicine myth buster and a strong supporter of Free Open Access to Meducation (FOAMed). Case Scenario: An 85-year-old woman presents to your ED with left leg and arm...

Posted by admin on Apr 9, 2014

Thrombolysis for Acute Stroke

As you know, the BEEM Team of Drs. Crocco, Milne and Upadhye was in Sweden last month for SweetBEEM. This was one of the best BEEM trips ever for a variety of reasons. Members of BEEM were asked to speak at their National Emergency Medicine conference while in Stockholm. I was invited to debate the evidence for thrombolysis in acute CVA with Dr. Kjell Asplund. Being Canadian, it was more of a discussion...

Posted by admin on Apr 6, 2014

SGEM#69: Cry Me A River (Early Goal Directed Therapy) ProCESS Trial

Podcast Link: SGEM69 Date: April 2, 2014 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Suneel Upahdye Suneel is a founding member of the BEEM Team. Case Scenario: You are working in a rural community emergency department. The next patient you see is a 71 year old man who has been sick for three days with fever, chills and a productive cough. On arrival, the vital signs were as follows: Temp 38.7C, HR 110, RR 24, BP 95/60 (after a...