Podcast # 423: Blunt Cardiac Injuries
Author: Mike Hunt, MD Educational Pearls: Blunt cardiac injuries most commonly occur in motor vehicle collisions, auto-pedestrian collisions, and from sports injuries The more anterior right ventri...
14 Jan 20194min
Podcast # 422: ED Opioid Prescription Trends
Author: Jared Scott, MD Educational Pearls: From 1996 to 2012, the total quantity of opioids prescribed increased 647% for non-cancer pain Office based prescriptions accounted for 84% of the total ...
11 Jan 20194min
Podcast # 421: Sweet DKA Pearls
Author: Gretchen Hinson, MD Educational Pearls: Diabetic ketoacidosis patients are subject to electrolyte derangements Potassium should be monitored closely: K 3.3 K > 5.3 = delay potassium repl...
9 Jan 20194min
Podcast # 420: CT Contrast and the Kidneys
Author: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: Recent meta-analysis has demonstrated that there is no significant risk for kidney injury from CT contrast Most kidney injury seen after contrast CTs wer...
7 Jan 20192min
Podcast # 419: Etripamil
Author: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: Etripamil is an intranasal calcium channel blocker in development for use in SVT A recent study showed that etripamil has an SVT conversion rate of arou...
20 Des 20183min
Podcast # 418: Vertebral Artery Dissection
Author: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: Vertebral artery dissection (VAD) contributes to just 2% of strokes overall but ~25% of strokes for patients VAD is associated with minor trauma (chiroprac...
17 Des 20183min
Podcast # 417: Water Balance
Author: Katie Sprinkle, MD Educational Pearls: Hyponatremia results when patients over hydrate and dilute their sodium with too much free water Symptoms of hyponatremia can mimic symptoms of dehydrat...
15 Des 20183min
Podcast # 416: Wide Complex Tachycardia
Author: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Defined as QRS over 120 ms and rate over 120 Two major rhythms = Vetricular tachycardia (VT) or SVT with aberrancy Safest approach is to assume it is VT S...
12 Des 20183min
