Podcast 673: Leaving the ED with Naloxone
Contributor: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: Patients are more likely to survive an opioid overdose if they have naloxone 10% risk of death in the year following an opioid overdose of patients see...
24 Touko 20216min
Podcast 672: Oxygen Things
Contributor: Aaron Lessen , MD Educational Pearls: Patients on 10L or more of oxygen per minute in the ICU were randomized to oxygen goals of 90% or 96% to compare 90-day mortality rates Mortality ra...
18 Touko 20212min
Podcast 671: Scapula Fractures
Contributor: Adam Barkin, MD Educational Pearls: Represents less than 1% of all fractures that occur, although it has a significant mortality rate of 2-5% Typically occurs in high-energy trauma and ...
17 Touko 20213min
Podcast 670: Operation Tat-Type
Contributor: Dave Rosenberg, MD Educational Pearls: In 1951, Operation Tat-Type began tattooing adults with their blood type in an effort to prepare for rapid transfusions in the time of the Cold Wa...
12 Touko 20214min
Podcast 669: VTach Storm
Contributor: Gretchen Hinson, MD Educational Pearls: Three episodes of ventricular tachycardia within 24 hours or two episodes back-to-back Treat with IV amiodarone and IV beta-blockers initially as...
11 Touko 20215min
Podcast 668: Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia
Contributor: Donald Stader, MD Educational Pearls: Opioids target kappa and NMDA receptors that can lead to central nervous system sensitization and therefore increased pain For patients with opioid-...
10 Touko 20214min
Podcast 667: Lactated Ringers for DKA
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Recent study looked at whether lactated ringers might be a better choice for fluid resuscitation in patients with DKA compared to normal saline Norm...
4 Touko 20213min
Podcast 666: Pain Management & Patient Perspective
Contributor: Jared Scott, MD Educational Pearls: About ½ of the patients in the ED present with some form of pain One study looked at patients presenting in pain and followed up two days after disch...
3 Touko 20215min
