Podcast # 336: Hypokalemia
Author: Dylan Luyten, MD Educational Pearls: Most important questions to answer with low potassium are 1. What are their symptoms? 2. Can they take potassium by mouth? Oral repletion is faster, c...
31 Touko 20183min
Podcast # 335: Blunt Head Trauma
Author: Peter Bakes, M.D. Educational Pearls: Epidural hematomas have a characteristic convex appearance on CT while a subdural hematoma will have a concave appearance. Indications for operative ...
29 Touko 20188min
Podcast #334 - Resuscitative Thoracotomy
Author: Dylan Luyten, MD Educational Pearls: Resuscitative thoracotomies are most commonly used for treatment of cardiac tamponade and to selectively perfuse the brain and heart in setting of hemor...
25 Touko 20187min
Podcast #333 - TBI Prognosticators
Author: Michael Hunt, MD Educational Pearls: Studies have shown that patients with decreasing GCS scores have worse outcomes, however GCS of 4 has worse outcome than GCS 3. Alternative scoring sy...
23 Touko 20183min
Podcast #332 - Door To Furosemide Time
Author: Nick Hatch, MD Educational Pearls: Recent study argues that CHF patients receiving furosemide within 60 minutes of arrival had a lower in-hospital mortality than those receiving it after (2...
21 Touko 20182min
Podcast # 331: Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT)
Author: Nick Hatch, MD Educational Pearls: The sodium-glucose cotransporter in the gut is essential for rehydration. Oral rehydration therapies require an equimolar concentration of glucose and s...
19 Touko 20184min
Podcast # 330: Behcet Disease
Author: Nick Hatch, MD Educational Pearls: Behcet Disease is an autoimmune disease that can affect any organ system. Typical symptoms include recurrent oral and genital ulcers, but more concernin...
17 Touko 20184min
Podcast # 329: Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis
Author: Dylan Luyten , MD Educational Pearls: Rare autosomal dominant condition that is often misdiagnosed as a psychiatric illness. Presents as profound muscle weakness with frank paralysis that...
15 Touko 20183min
