The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine

[display_podcast] Date: September 10th, 2018 Reference: Gurley et al. Comparison of Emergency Medicine Malpractice Cases Involving Residents to Non-Resident Cases. AEM September 2018 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Justin Morgenstern is an emergency physician and the Director of Simulation Education at Markham Stouffville Hospital in Ontario. He is the creator of the excellent #FOAMed project called First10EM.com…

[display_podcast] Date: September 5th, 2018 Reference:  Franklin et al. A Randomized Trial of High-Flow Oxygen Therapy in Infants with Bronchiolitis. NEJM March 2018. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Ben Lawton is a paediatric emergency physician in Brisbane Australia. He divides his time between a tertiary children’s hospital and a community hospital that is busy enough to have…

[display_podcast] Date: August 22nd, 2018 Reference: Riskin A, Erez A, Foulk TA, et al. Rudeness and Medical Team Performance. Pediatrics. February 2017 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Simon McCormick is an Emergency Medicine Consultant from Northern Ireland who works in Rotherham Hospital in Yorkshire, England. He is currently redeployed in Medical Education on “Burnout Sabbatical” but is…

[display_podcast] Date: August 25th, 2018 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Neil Parry is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Critical Care at Western University. He is the Medical Director of the Trauma Program for London Health Sciences Centre and the Site Chief of Surgery at Victoria Hospital. Dr. Parry is also a national member of the Committee…

[display_podcast] Date: August 16th, 2018 Reference: Hohl C et al. Prospective Validation of Clinical Criteria to Identify Emergency Department Patients at High Risk for Adverse Drug Events. AEM Aug 2018. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Chris Bond is an emergency physician and clinical lecturer at the University of Calgary. He is currently the host of CAEP Casts,…

Date: July 16th, 2018 Reference: Gupta M et al. Validation of the Pediatric NEXUS II Head Computed Tomography Decision Instrument for Selective Imaging of Pediatric Patients with Blunt Head Trauma. AEM July 2018 Guest Skeptics: Dr. Corey Heitz is an emergency physician in Roanoke, Virginia. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine Case: You’re working […]

[display_podcast] Date: July 13th, 2018 It’s summer time here in Canada and Season#6 of the SGEM is coming to an end. I hope SGEMers in the northern hemisphere are getting some time off for holidays with family and friend. There will still be new content uploaded over the summer. We have the monthly SGEM Hot…

[display_podcast] Date: June 20th, 2018 Reference: Fox LM et al. Battlefield acupuncture to treat low back pain in the emergency department. Am J  EM 2018 Guest Skeptics: Dr. Robert Edmonds is an emergency physician in the US Air Force in Virginia. This is Bob’s seventh visit to the SGEM, and his first since returning from…

[display_podcast] Date: June 15th, 2018 Reference: Silva et al. Safety and Efficacy of Intravenous Lidocaine for Pain Management in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review. Ann Emerg Med. 2018 Guest Skeptics: Dr. Sergey Motov is an Emergency Physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center in New York City. Lucas Silva is a…

[display_podcast] Date: June 12th, 2018 Reference: DeMeester S et al. Implementation of a Novel Algorithm to Decrease Unnecessary Hospitalizations in Patients Presenting to a Community Emergency Department With Atrial Fibrillation. AEM June 2018 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Morgenstern is an emergency physician and the Director of Simulation Education at Markham Stouffville Hospital in Ontario. He is…

[display_podcast] Date: June 8th, 2018 Reference: April MD, et al. Aromatherapy Versus Oral Ondansetron for Antiemetic Therapy Among Adult Emergency Department Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Ann Emerg Med 2018 Guest Skeptic: Meghan Groth is a pharmacist who has been practicing in emergency medicine for the past six years. She’s recently transitioned into industry, taking…

[display_podcast] Date: May 26th, 2018 This is a SGEM Xtra book review. I had the honour of meeting and interviewing Dr. Brian Goldman at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physician (CAEP) annual scientific assembly in Calgary. Dr. Goldman is an Emergency Medicine physician who works at Mount Sinai hospital in Toronto. He is the host…

[display_podcast] Date: May 16th, 2018 Reference: Beltaief K et al. Acupuncture versus titrated morphine in acute renal colic: a randomized controlled trial. J Pain Res. 2018 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Tony Seupaul  is the Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arkansas. Dr. Cordell Cunningham is a PGY 2 in Emergency Medicine at University…

[display_podcast] Date: May 16, 2018 Reference: Freund et al. Effect of the Pulmonary Embolism Rule-Out Criteria on Subsequent Thromboembolic Events
 Among Low-Risk Emergency Department Patients: The PROPER Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA February 2018. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Jeffrey Kline (@klinelab) is the Vice Chair of Research in Emergency Medicine and a professor of physiology, Indiana University…

[display_podcast] Date: May 12th, 2018 Reference: Gonin P et al. Excited Delirium: A Systematic Review. AEM May 2018. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Chris Bond is an emergency physician and clinical lecturer at the University of Calgary. He is currently the host of CAEP Casts, which highlights educational innovations from emergency medicine residency programs across Canada. Chris…