John Bielinski’s Talk EM - Enhancing Clinical Excellence in EM
Summary: We get it! You practice EM or care for acutely ill patients. You want information that you can immediately apply. We combine evidence based medicine and the art of medicine to help increase your confidence and competence. Talk EM is no fluff, cut to the chase information.
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Podcasts:
The CBC is essential to understand acute patient presentations. We are starting a series to make this understandable and clinically useful.
Asthma is a disease that takes a methodical approach and understanding of history and presentation. In this installment of TalkEM one of our emergency medicine experts explores the diagnosis, clinical indicators, and treatment interventions.
If you work EM, you have to know airway. It's taught in every resuscitation curriculum, yet incompletely. In this installment of TalkEM one of our emergency medicine experts defines and shares pearls of success.
Lactic acid? Central line vs. peripheral? What’s the ideal antibiotic? Listen as emergency medicine experts, Dr. Joshua Lynch and John Bielinski PA-C, discuss diagnostic procedures and effective courses of treatment for sepsis.
If you think congestive heart failure is about fluid overload, you are mistaken. In this episode of TalkEM leading experts in emergency medicine discuss the best clinical practices for diagnosing and treating congestive heart failure. Listen as emergency medicine experts, Dr. Joshua Lynch and John Bielinski PA-C, share their knowledge and insights on diagnostic and treatment procedures for congestive heart failure.
Of the five lethal causes of chest pain, acute coronary syndrome, is more common and viable. Know the risk factors and standards of care. Listen as emergency medicine experts, Dr. Joshua Lynch and John Bielinski PA-C, discuss risk factors and effective courses of treatment.
Is rate control all about diltiazem? What if they are stable and hypotensive? How do we get burned? In this episode of TalkEM leading experts in emergency medicine discuss the best clinical practices for treating rapid atrial fibrillation.
Communication between medical professionals on a multidisciplinary team is a balance of humility and trust. In this episode of TalkEM leading experts in emergency medicine discuss communication as an essential component of patient care. Listen as Dr. Joshua Lynch and John Bielsinki PA-C reflect on their experiences working on multidisciplinary teams in emergency room settings. Discussion highlights effective and ineffective strategies of communication as well as the effects on patient care.
How do you best evaluate an upper GIB, monitor for subtle signs of shock, and predict how brittle a COPDer is? In this installment of TalkEM one of our emergency medicine experts shares THREE tricks to help you triage and manage these risky situations.
Congestive heart failure is a condition emergency medicine professionals frequently encounter. Unfortunately, as a result of misconceptions about this disorder clinicians are ill prepared to face the challenges of diagnosis, intervention, and treatment planning for congestive heart failure. In this installment of TalkEM our emergency medicine expert dispels clinical myths as to pathophysiology and clinical approach of congestive heart failure.
There are five main causes of shortness of breath or pulmonary symptoms. In this installment of TalkEM one of our emergency medicine experts explores the differential diagnosis of pulmonary conditions. Listeners are introduced to a clear and concise approach to assessing chest pain.
Knowledge is the key to surviving emergency medicine landmines. In this episode of TalkEM one of our emergency medicine experts confronts several difficult disorders that plague clinicians, such as a subarachnoid hemorrhage, appendectomy or pulmonary embolism. To avoid these medical landmines clinicians must have a clear understanding of risk factors, clinical indicators, and critical interventions.
It's the ultimate vascular catastrophe. Clinicians must be aware of the clinical presentation and diagnostic/therapeutic dilemma. In this episode of TalkEM one of our emergency medicine experts explores thoracic dissections by reflecting on his experiences working in the field, sharing insights on risk factors, clinical indicators, and treatment interventions.
In an earlier episode of TalkEM we introduced the mnemonic “Who’s Your PAPPA” to utilize when assessing and diagnosing chest pain. In this episode we dive deeper into one of the five components of the PAPPA mnemonic by exploring complexities of assessing and diagnosing a pneumothorax. A pneumothorax can be tricky. Even experienced clinicians can miss a small, simple pneumothorax which can be catastrophic.
In this episode of TalkEM leading experts in emergency medicine introduce and discuss an innovative cardiac risk assessment tool, The HEART Score. Listen as Dr. Joshua Lynch, Dr. John McNamara, and John Bielinski PA-C describe the tool and discuss clinical applications.
