Podcast 787: TAVR and Stroke
Contributor: Nick Hatch, MD Educational Pearls: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is an increasingly common endovascular procedure to treat aortic stenosis TAVR is an alternative to the o...
6 Jun 20224min
Podcast 786: Smiling Death
Contributor: Nick Hatch, MD Educational Pearls: "Smiling Death" describes the prehospital phenomenon of a person who is happy to be extricated from an extended period of crush injury, but dies sudden...
31 Mai 20226min
Podcast 785: Pepper Spray
Contributor: Jared Scott, MD Educational Pearls: Pepper spray is a chemical irritant derived from oleoresin capsicum (OC), an extract from pepper plants. It can be used by police for riot or crowd co...
30 Mai 20226min
Podcast 784: Wastewater Surveillance for COVID
Contributor: Jared Scott, MD Educational Pearls: About 50% of those infected with SARS-CoV-2 will shed the virus in their feces Wastewater surveillance can be used to track COVID burden, which may ...
24 Mai 20225min
Podcast 783: LAD Occlusion & Troponin
Contributor: Jared Scott, MD Educational Pearls: A study randomized 34 healthy patient to have their left anterior descending artery (LAD) occluded by balloon for 0, 15, 30, or 90 seconds Subsequen...
23 Mai 20225min
Podcast 782: Ventilator Management
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Tidal volume is the amount of breath a patient receives in a single ventilation Traditional tidal volume (TV) setting was 10 ml/kg but studies showe...
17 Mai 20223min
Podcast 781: Foxglove, Dropsy, and Salvador Dali
Contributor: Chris Holmes, MD Educational Pearls: Foxglove plant contains the cardiac glycoside digoxin Foxglove leaf potions were once used to treat Dropsy; a historic term for symptoms of heart f...
16 Mai 20224min
Podcast 780: Pediatric Sedation Post-Intubation
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Recent study looking at a pediatric emergency department to determine what percentage of patients after intubation received sedation within 10 minute...
10 Mai 20223min
