Episode 72 ACLS Guidelines 2015 Post Arrest Care
Once we've achieved ROSC our job is not over. Good post-arrest care involves maintaining blood pressure and cerebral perfusion, adequate sedation, cooling and preventing hyperthermia, considering anti...
3 Nov 20151h 4min
Episode 71 ACLS Guidelines 2015 – Cardiac Arrest Controversies Part 1
A lot has changed over the years when it comes to managing the adult in cardiac arrest. As a result, survival rates after cardiac arrest have risen steadily over the last decade. With the release of t...
21 Okt 20151h 7min
Best Case Ever 41 Opiate Misuse and Physician Compassion
Opiate misuse is everywhere. Approximately 15-20% of ED patients in the US are prescribed outpatient opiates upon discharge. In Ontario, about 10 people die accidentally from prescription opiates ev...
13 Okt 20157min
Episode 70 End of Life Care in Emergency Medicine
Most of us in North America live in cultures that almost never talk about death and dying. And medical progress has led the way to a shift in the culture of dying, in which death has been medicalized....
29 Sep 20151h 7min
Episode 69 Obesity Emergency Management
Current estimates of the prevalence of obesity are that a quarter of adult Canadians and one third of Americans are considered obese with approximately 3% being morbidly obese. With the proportion of ...
8 Sep 20151h 5min
Best Case Ever 39 – Airway Strategy & Mental Preparedness in EM Procedures with Richard Levitan
I caught up with airway educator, innovator and self-described enthusiast Dr. Richard Levitan at SMACC in Chicago this past June. In this Best Case Ever on Airway Strategy and Mental Preparedness in E...
1 Sep 201514min
Episode 68 Emergency Management of Sickle Cell Disease
A recent needs assessment completed in Toronto found that Emergency providers are undereducated when it comes to the Emergency Management of Sickle Cell Disease. This became brutally apparent to me pe...
18 Aug 20151h 1min
Best Case Ever 38 Sickle Cell Acute Chest Syndrome
Sickle Cell Acute Chest Syndrome remains the leading cause of death in patients suffering from Sickle Cell Disease. In his Best Case Ever, Dr. Richard Ward, a hematologist with a special interest in S...
11 Aug 20156min
