Podcast 582: Gadolinium - The Contrast of MRI
Contributor: Michael Hunt, MD Educational Pearls: Contrast agents are commonly used for X-rays and CT's to better characterize disease, but contrast doesn't work with MRI. That's where the element Ga...
28 Jul 20204min
Podcast 581: Alcohol Complications
\Contributor: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: Altered mental status/confusion are major symptoms associated with both alcohol use and withdrawal. Wernicke's encephalopathy is a triad of symptoms o...
27 Jul 20206min
Podcast 580: Origin of PPE
Contributor: Michael Hunt, MD Educational Pearls: PPE, or personal protective equipment, has become a major talking point since the emergence of the novel coronavirus (COVID 19). While ubiquitous now...
21 Jul 20204min
Podcast 579: Yersinia Pestis
Contributor: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: Yersinia Pestis is the bacteria that caused the black plague. It was first discovered to be the cause of the bubonic plague in 1800s in China during th...
20 Jul 20203min
Podcast 578: Brown-Sequard Syndrome
Author: Eric Miller, MD Educational Pearls: Brown-Sequard Syndrome is a neurological deficit that results from hemisection of the spinal cord This is usually from traumatic injury (blunt or penetrat...
14 Jul 20202min
Podcast 577: Immunotherapies
Contributor: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: Checkpoint inhibition normally helps our body detect abnormal cells and terminate it but cancerous cells often are able to avoid this countermeasure Mo...
13 Jul 20206min
UnfilterED #9: Dr. Steven Bradley
Dr. Steven Bradley is an active duty U.S. Naval officer practicing as a Staff Anesthesiologist in Virginia where also resides on the Medical Ethics Committee for his hospital. He serves as the Anesthe...
8 Jul 202039min
