Podcast 819: Indiscriminate Lactate Testing
Contributor: Jared Scott, MD Educational Pearls: Elevated lactate levels can be a useful indicator of critical illness in patients who meet SIRS criteria Lactate can also be elevated due to ot...
10 Okt 20225min
Podcast 818: Local Anesthetics and LAST
Contributor: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: There are two major groups of local anesthetics: Amide and Esther To recall what group an anesthetic belongs to, use this memory trick: Amide has...
4 Okt 20226min
Podcast 817: MI Risk during Elections
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: 2020 retrospective study with dat from two California hospitals compared rates of cardiovascular admissions in a five day period two weeks before and...
3 Okt 20222min
Podcast 816: Ventilator Management in Asthmatics
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: The management of severe asthma or COPD exacerbation is complex, especially when the patient requires intubation/ventilation Asthma is an obstructive...
27 Sep 20224min
Podcast 815: Fluid Resuscitation in Pancreatitis
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Historically, pancreatitis has been treated with aggressive IV fluid rehydration. Recently published data shows this may not be appropriate. A random...
26 Sep 20223min
Podcast 814: Post-concussion Treatment
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Recent study looked at the impact of screen time on duration of post-concussive symptoms 125 patients aged 12-25 diagnosed with a concussion were ran...
19 Sep 20222min
Podcast 813: Pulse Oximetry
Contributor: Travis Barlock, MD Educational Pearls: Most oxygen in the body is bound to hemoglobin, forming oxyhemoglobin. Less than 1% of the oxygen in the body is dissolved in plasma. Pulse Oximet...
13 Sep 20224min
Podcast 812: PO Medications
Contributor: Nick Tsipis, MD Educational Pearls: PO medications are less frequently used in the ED due to their longer onset of action The position the patient is in when given PO medications ...
12 Sep 20223min
