The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine

[display_podcast] Date: October 19th, 2017 Reference: Hofmann et al. Oxygen Therapy in Suspected Acute Myocardial Infarction. NEJM Sept 2017. Guest Skeptic: Marcus Prescott is a nurse in Norway. He is also now a first-year medical student. Case: A 68-year-old man with a history of hypertension and dyslipidemia develops chest pain while grocery shopping. Emergency medical…

[display_podcast] Date: October 5th, 2017 Reference: Brison et al. Effect of early supervised physiotherapy on recovery from acute ankle sprain: randomised controlled trial. BMJ Nov 2016. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Steve Joseph. Steve completed his Sport Medicine fellowship training with the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic in 2017. He served with the Canadian Forces as a…

[display_podcast] Date: September 26th, 2017 Reference: Kaufman, et al. Faster clean catch urine collection (Quick-Wee method) from infants: randomised controlled trial. BMJ April 17. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Natalie May trained as an emergency physician with subspecialty paediatric emergency medicine in the UK and worked in Manchester and Oxford before moving to Australia in 2015 to…

[display_podcast] Date: September 19th, 2017 Reference: Cournoyer et al. Prehospital advanced cardiac life support for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a cohort study. Academic Emergency Medicine. September 2017. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Corey Heitz is an emergency physician in Roanoke, Virginia. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine and the associate editor for emergency medicine…

[display_podcast] Date: September 12th, 2017 Reference: Sinert et al. Randomized Trial of Icatibant for Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor-Induced Upper Airway Angioedema. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract 2017. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Anand Swaninathan is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at NYU/Bellevue Hospital in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He is also part of REBEL EM, The…

[display_podcast] Date: September 11th, 2017 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Esther Choo is an emergency physician and researcher who studies health disparities, substance use disorders, and gender bias. She obtained her MD from Yale University, did her clinical training at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Boston Medical Center, and completed a health services research fellowship at Oregon Health…

[display_podcast] Date: September 7th, 2017 Reference: Cohen et al. Acupuncture for analgesia in the emergency department: a multicentre, randomised, equivalence and non-inferiority trial. MJA 2017 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Alfred Sacchetti is a full time practicing Emergency Physician, who is also the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, New…

[display_podcast] Date: September 2nd, 2017 Reference: Caputo et al. EmergeNcy Department use of Apneic Oxygenation versus usual care during rapid sequence intubation: A randomized controlled trial (The ENDAO Trial). AEM 2017. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Rory Spiegel is a clinical instructor at University of Maryland and a recent graduate of Stony Brook’s Resuscitation Fellowship. He writes…

[display_podcast] Date: August 26th, 2017  Guest Skeptic: Dr. Richard Bukata is the Medical Director, The Center for Medical Education, Inc. Started Emergency Medical Abstracts in 1977. A Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles County / USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.   Legends of Emergency Medicine: This is the final episode of the summer…

[display_podcast] Date: June 5th, 2017  Guest Skeptic: Dr. Jerome Hoffman. Associate Program Director, Emergency Medicine & Acute Care, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Emergency Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.     Legends of Emergency Medicine: This is the sixth episode in the summer series of SGEM Xtras called Legends of Emergency Medicine (#LegendofEM). These…

[display_podcast] Date: July 24th, 2017 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Judith Tintinalli is an emergency physician in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which is affiliated with University of North Carolina. She received her medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine and wrote the book on emergency medicine (Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine).   Legends of Emergency Medicine: This…

[display_podcast] Date: July 13th, 2017 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Ian Stiell is Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa. He is internationally recognized for his research in emergency medicine with a focus on the development of clinical decision rules. Ian is best known for the development of the Ottawa Ankle Rules and Canadian C-Spine Rule,…

[display_podcast] Date:  June 21st, 2017 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Joseph Lex is considered by many to be the Godfather of the FOAM (Free Open Access to Medication) movement. Joe is a retired Professor of Emergency Medicine from Temple University. He created a site called Free Emergency Medicine Talks that has thousands of recorded of lectures. It…

[display_podcast] Date:  May 12th, 2017 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Diane Birnbaumer is a Senior Clinical Faculty at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA. She is also an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Diane will be a keynote speaker at FeminEM conference in New York City this October called …

[display_podcast] Date: July 11th, 2017 Reference: Bookman K et al. Embedded Clinical Decision Support in Electronic Health Record Decreases Use of High-cost Imaging in the Emergency Department: EmbED study. AEM July 2017. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Justin Morgenstern is an emergency physician and the Director of Simulation Education at Markham Stouffville Hospital in Ontario. He is…