Podcast 882: Thrombolytics for Minor Strokes
Contributor: Aaron Lessen MD Educational Pearls: How is the severity of a stroke assessed? Strokes are assessed by the NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS), this scale has different tasks, such as asking the pe...
20 Dec 20232min
Podcast 881: Pediatric Readmissions
Contributor: Nick Tsipis MD Educational Pearls: The review article assessed 16.3 million patients across six states to identify those at high-risk for critical revisit Criteria for critical revis...
12 Dec 20233min
Podcast 880: OB Delivery in the ED
Contributor: Meghan Hurley MD Educational Pearls: Pearls about labor: Labor is split into 3 stages. Stage 1 starts when the first persistent contractions are felt and goes up until the cervix is ...
4 Dec 20238min
Podcast 879: A Case of Pediatric Anaphylactic Shock
Contributor: Dr. Taylor Lynch Educational Pearls: Time of arrival until intubation was 26 minutes but nobody tried anterior neck access like a cricothyrotomy until his dad arrived Traditional ACLS...
27 Nov 20235min
Podcast 878: Opioids for Low Back and Neck Pain
Contributor: Jared Scott MD Educational Pearls: Should we use opioids to treat low back and neck pain? The OPAL Trial, published in The Lancet, in June 2023, attempted to answer this very question. ...
20 Nov 20233min
Podcast 877: Viral Respiratory Infections in Children
Contributor: Jared Scott MD Educational Pearls A recently published study assessed the burden of respiratory viruses in a longitudinal cohort of children from 0 to 2 years of age The children in t...
13 Nov 20233min
Podcast 876: Sedation Pearls
Contributor: Travis Barlock MD Educational Pearls: Common sedatives used in the Emergency Department and a few pearls for each. Propofol Type: Non-barbiturate sedative hypnotic agonizing GABA rec...
6 Nov 20235min
Podcast 875: A Pediatric Case of Myopericarditis
Contributor: Meghan Hurley MD Educational Pearls: Pericarditis is inflammation of the pericardial sac, which can arise from infectious or non-infectious etiologies Myocarditis is inflammation of t...
30 Okt 20236min
