EMCrit Podcast - Emergency Critical Care
Summary: Help me fill in the blanks of the practice of ED Critical Care. In this podcast, we discuss all things related to the crashing, critically ill patient in the Emergency Department. Find the show notes at emcrit.org.
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- Artist: Scott D. Weingart, MD
- Copyright: 2009-2012
Podcasts:
Can we monitor ETCO2 with extraglottic airways? The answer is definitively: I don't know.
Today, I got to interview Kenji Inaba; an incredibly prolific trauma surgeon from LA County, California.
Should we stop using Epi in the field for cardiac arrest
Rich Levitan is one of the best teachers on the skills of airway management and laryngoscopy--or as he would probably put it, epiglottoscopy. Here is an hour long lecture he delivered last month at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
On the editorial policy of EMCrit
Drs. Keith Lurie and Demetris Yannopoulos elaborate on the future of CPR
Prehospital Doc Cliff Reid's tips for intubation
The first ever live EMCrit Podcast
One of the most exciting and underutilized therapies for trauma is tranexamic acid (txa).
A response to a question on c-spine imaging
The Lewis Lead (S5) allows you detect atrial activity that cannot be discerned on the standard 12-lead
It is winter and that means cardiac arrests coming in with extremely low body temperatures after environmental exposure. How do you treat these patients? How do you rewarm if you don't have bypass?
Today I want to talk about proper ventilation with a Bag-Valve-Mask, aka the BVM. I am joined by my friend Reuben Strayer, MD of EM Updates. You'll see Reub's talk from this year's EMCrit ED Critical Care Conference and hear some of my thoughts as well.
Today I had the pleasure to interview Dr. Paul Marik, Professor and Division Chief of Pulmonary Critical Care at Eastern Virginia Medical Center. We got to speak on the topic of fluid responsiveness--one of the toughest questions in critical care.
Podcast 63 set off some expected controversy given my take that plain films are a dead imaging modality for c-spine injuries. I wanted to briefly outline my impression of the existing evidence:
