Podcast # 496: Hallucinogens
Author: David Holland, MD Educational Pearls: Hallucinogenics have been used for a variety of cultural and religious reasons for thousands of years In the 1960's a Harvard professor began experimenti...
12 Aug 20197min
Podcast # 495: Trauma in the Elderly
Author: Rachel Brady, MD Educational Pearls: Elderly patients (>65 years old) have a higher trauma mortality compared to younger patients, even though they have lower mechanisms of injury Elder trau...
6 Aug 20196min
Podcast #494: A Standard Toxicology Approach
Contributor: JP Brewer, MD Educational Pearls: Obtaining collateral is often vital to determine the potential drugs accessible to the patient - this may include After this, use ancillary sources such...
2 Aug 20197min
Podcast # 493: One Pill for the Kill
Contributor: JP Brewer, MD Educational Pearls: Because of their smaller size, there are a variety of adult-dose pills that are potentially toxic to children. The most common categories of medication...
31 Jul 20196min
Podcast # 492: Pain While on Buprenorphine
Contributor: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: Buprenorphine is a partial Mu-agonist and binds with higher affinity than most opioids Pain management with opioids therefore can be difficult in patie...
26 Jul 20194min
Podcast # 491: Buprenorphine for Withdrawal
Educational Pearls: Buprenorphine is a semi-synthetic derivative of the opium poppy FDA approved for the treatment of opiate use disorder and chronic pain Benefit in emergency department use is the c...
24 Jul 20194min
Podcast # 490: Canadian Syncope Rule
Contributor: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: Syncope is usually benign but can be caused by serious etiologies which include: PE, certain cardiac arrhythmias, AAA, intracranial bleed/stroke The Ca...
22 Jul 20194min
Podcast # 489: Bats & Rabies
Contributor: Jared Scott, MD Educational Pearls: The CDC recommends rabies prophylaxis if there was a direct encounter with a possibly rabid animal except... Bats are treated differently since their ...
18 Jul 20193min
