Podcast 858: Whole Blood Pregnancy Test
Contributor: Meghan Hurley MD Educational Pearls: What do you do if you need a stat pregnancy test on an incapacitated patient? You can send a serum quantitative human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-H...
3 Juli 20234min
Podcast 857: Alice in Wonderland Jeopardy
Contributor: Chris Holmes MD Educational Pearls: "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards" - Transient Global Amnesia A syndrome with sudden retrograde memory loss in which patients ...
26 Juni 20233min
Podcast 856: ED Errors and Counterstudy
Contributor: Nicholas Tsipis, MD Educational Pearls: What study was Dr. Tsipis talking about? In December of 2022, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) put out a study titled "Diagn...
19 Juni 20234min
Podcast 855: QT Intervals
Contributor: Travis Barlock MD Educational Pearls The QT interval represents phases 2 and 3 of ventricular plateau and repolarization, respectively. As the QT interval lengthens, more sodium an...
12 Juni 20234min
Mental Health Monthly #16: Psychosis in the ED Part II
Contributors: Andrew White MD & Travis Barlock MD In this follow-up episode Dr. Andrew White, a practicing psychiatrist with an addiction medicine fellowship, and Dr. Travis Barlock, an emergency phys...
7 Juni 202324min
Episode 854: Tranq (xylazine) with Heroin
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: What is Tranq? Tranq is the street name for xylazine, a sedative drug typically used in veterinary medicine. Xylazine has recently emerged as a re...
5 Juni 20232min
Podcast 853: Critical Care Medications - Vasopressors
Contributor: Travis Barlock MD Educational Pearls: Three categories of pressors: inopressors, pure vasoconstrictors, and inodilators Inopressors: Epinephrine - nonselective beta- and alpha-adr...
29 Maj 20235min
Podcast 852: Angioedema After Thrombolysis
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: What is thrombolysis? Thrombolysis is performed by administration of a medication that promotes the body's natural ability to break up clots. These ...
22 Maj 20232min
