TOTAL EM - Tools Of the Trade and Academic Learning in Emergency Medicine

​It is so tempting to want to share stories of the things we see, especially in emergency medicine.  Maybe we just want to tell the world about something strange, or maybe we are being more innocent a...

24 Huhti 201812min

​It is so tempting to want to share stories of the things we see, especially in emergency medicine. Maybe we just want to tell the world about something strange, or maybe we are being more innocent a...

24 Huhti 201812min

Our guest, Eric Steffel, is a paramedic that reached out wanting to discuss active exhalation.  It goes by many other names including "external chest compressions" or "lateral chest compressions" as s...

17 Huhti 201825min

​There is also some source of news out there that is contributing to misinformation.  As we have talked about before, misinformation is a daily presence but usually we can quickly fact check a source....

10 Huhti 201822min

We have Tyler Christifulli from FOAMfrat back on to discuss two acronyms (we each developed one) for post-intubation agitation and sedation.  We also talk about the utility of acronyms in general.  As...

3 Huhti 201817min

Building off of our last post with Harrison Reed talking about communication, we are moving to a very similar and related topic this time talking about cognitive stop points with paramedic Tyler Chris...

27 Maalis 201828min

Critical care PA Harrison Reed joins us to discuss communication in critical care resuscitation by breaking it down into phases along with talking about the pearls and pitfalls when it comes to these ...

20 Maalis 201851min

​Fever can be scary.  It brings in many parents and even adults no matter the time of day.  However, there is a lot of misinformation regarding fevers which brings about this important discussion.  Us...

13 Maalis 201837min