The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine

Posted by admin on Dec 8, 2013

SGEM#56: BEEM Me Up (Impact Factor in the Age of Social Media)

Podcast Link: SGEM56 Date: December 4th, 2013 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Chris Carpenter and Dr. Brent Thoma Case Scenario: An newly graduated EM resident gets her research paper published in an emergency medicine journal. Question: How can she know what kind of impact her paper will have on the profession? Background: Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine (BEEM) is a knowledge translation and dissemination...

Posted by admin on Dec 4, 2013

Ron Burgundy at McMaster Univesity?

Rumours were that Ron Burgundy had brought all his classiness to McMaster University last week to give Regional Emergency Medicine rounds. These rumours were not true, it was Ken Milne sporting a Movember and talking about The Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine. Check out the YouTube video of the presentation. It was live streamed using Google Hangout thanks to the tech wizardry of Teresa Chan....

Posted by admin on Dec 1, 2013

SGEM#55: Drugs in My Pocket (Opioids in the Emergency Department)

Podcast Link: SGEM55 Date: November 28, 2013 Title: Drugs in My Pocket (Opioids in the Emergency Department) Guest Skeptic: Dr. Damon Atrie and Dr. Amy McCulloch Case Scenario: 33 year-old man presents to the emergency department at 2AM complaining of a infected tooth. At triage he requests that “oxy” stuff that worked really well last time. Question: Can a departmental guideline on...

Posted by admin on Nov 19, 2013

SGEM#54: Baby It’s Cold Outside (Pre-Hospital Therapeutic Hypothermia in Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest)

Podcast Link: SGEM54 Date: 19 November 2013 Title: Baby It’s Cold Outside (Pre-Hospital Therapeutic Hypothermia in Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest) Case Scenario: A 72yo man has witnessed arrest while watching his grandson’s hockey game. By-standard CPR is started and he shocked out of ventricular fibrillation using the automatic external defibrillator (AED). EMS arrives and finds an patient...

Posted by admin on Nov 17, 2013

SGEM#53: Sunday, Bloody Sunday – Epistaxis and Tranexamic Acid

Podcast Link: SGEM53 Date: November 17, 2013 Title: Sunday, Bloody Sunday – Epistaxis and Tranexamic Acid Guest Skeptic: Dr. Erich Hanel, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at McMaster University and the newest member of the BEEM Dream Team Case Scenario: 72 year old man presents with epistaxis. He has no history of coagulopathy but does have a history of hypertension, coronary artery...