REBEL Cast
Summary: For those who haven’t checked out the site already R.E.B.E.L. EM stands for Rational Evidence Based Evaluation of Literature in Emergency Medicine. The blog was launched in October 2013, and continues to grow every month, and with that growth we are excited to give you REBEL Cast. This podcast will review evidence based literature and end with a clinical take home point for your clinical practice.
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In terms of airway management, cricothyrotomy is one of the most advanced airway procedures an ED physician will perform. It is a last resort procedure when a patient is not able to be ventilated/oxygenated and/or intubated. Typically, this procedure requires the identification of certain landmarks such as the cricothyroid membrane, but what if you can’t […]
Many of us have heard the saying that emergency medicine is the best 15 minutes of every other specialty. This, is in part, due to the wide breadth of disease and knowledge one must have to take care of patients. In emergency medicine we typically focus on acute disease specific problems and life sustaining treatments, […]
Background: Visits to the ED for alcohol intoxication can create quite the clinical conundrum both for acute medical and traumatic reasons. Acutely intoxicated patients, just like young kids, don’t always have the ability to communicate due to sedation, agitation, or some other critical medical/traumatic process that is ongoing. This makes getting a complete history or […]
Background: There has been lots of research published in past years on how to minimize pain and anxiety in children brought to the ED. Unfortunately, as we all know there is often a lag time from research publication to clinical application. It has been my experience that health care professionals tend to provide inconsistent and […]
Recently I was asked to speak at the Texas College of Emergency Physicians (TCEP) conference April 2018. The particulars of this session were, five, 10 minute lectures on new indications for old drugs. My topic was the use of octreotide and somatostatin for undifferentiated upper gastrointestinal bleeding. This is a particular topic I have been […]
Background: Welcome back to REBEL Cast episode 47. In this issue we are going to talk about some recent trials published in the past year that have gotten some love in the FOAMed world. We have been meaning to discuss these trials, but just simply didn’t have the time until now. What trials are we […]
In Episode 46a we discussed respiratory failure and NIV. In episode 46b we are going move on to the patient where you have tried NIV and your patient just doesn’t seem to be improving. You decide to intubate your patient and connect them to the ventilator. Now the ventilator starts beeping and your patient begins […]
Imagine you have a patient in respiratory failure sitting right in front of you. The patient has an increased work of breathing and obviously in distress. Monitors are beeping, nurses are asking you what you want to do, and if you don’t do something, the patient is going to arrest and potentially die. What is […]
What’s Wrong With Lectures/Presentations Now? Lecturing style has remained stagnant despite the fact that our understanding of how people learn has changed. Most presentations make the supportive media (i.e. slides) the focus of the presentation without thought about the story or the delivery. Lectures are too focused on the educator instead of focusing on the […]
Background: Placement of vascular access for administration of resuscitation drugs and fluids is a common procedure in the management of out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). While intravenous (IV) placement has been the standard approach for decades, intraosseous (IO) access is rapid and safe and may be the preferred approach due to fact that the bone […]
Background: In the United States we are not only seeing an opioid epidemic but also a shortage of IV opioid agents. For both reasons, it is important to find non-opioid options for common pain complaints seen in the ED. Changing prescribing practices is difficult but an important step in minimizing opioid usage. Current research suggests […]
Welcome back to Episode 42 of REBEL Cast. In this episode, we will be discussing some studies from the past year that had some interesting results and a couple of papers that are potentially going to change our practice in the near future (In the Pipeline). Again, this 3 part series will be dedicated to […]
Welcome back to Episode 41 of REBEL Cast. In this episode, we will be discussing some studies from the past year that caught our attention in the area of resuscitation. Again, this 3 part series will be dedicated to discussing current literature and how it can be applied to your clinical practice. Episode 41 – […]
Welcome back to Episode 40 of REBEL Cast. We have taken some time off but don’t worry, we are back. In this episode, we will be discussing some studies from the past year that caught our attention, dealing with pain control. With the hundreds of journals in EM/CC and the thousands of publications it is […]
Background: Sore throat is a common presentation to the emergency department as well as primary care clinics. Corticosteroids inhibit transcription of pro-inflammatory mediators in airway endothelial cells responsible for pharyngeal inflammation and symptoms of pain. They have been used in other upper respiratory tract infections such as acute sinusitis and croup. In adults, previous studies […]
