Sat.Nov 13, 2021 - Fri.Nov 19, 2021

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ECG Cases 27 Pericarditis – Diagnosis of Exclusion

Emergency Medicine Cases

Jesse McLaren guides us through 9 cases and explains how pericarditis is a diagnosis of exclusion through 3 simple steps: 1. Exclude more serious causes of chest pain, eg wraparound LAD occlusion, inferior OMI 2. Exclude complications of pericarditis, eg myocarditis, large pericardial effusion 3. Exclude normal variant ST elevation presenting with benign chest pain on this month's ECG Cases blog.

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Healing Racism in EM | Dalbavancin Pro-Con | Pregnancy-Adapted Geneva Score

JournalFeed

It’s the JournalFeed Podcast for the week of November 8-12, 2021. We cover how we can address racism in EM, dalbavancin for skin and soft tissue infection and its potential cost impact, and a pregnancy-adapted Geneva score.

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Sherner – Massive Pulmonary Embolism

University of Maryland CC Project

Dr. John Sherner, board-certified pulmonary and critical care physician at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where he is currently Chairman of the Department of Medicine presents on management of massive pulmonary embolism as part of the DC5 lecture series. Dr. John Sherner, board-certified pulmonary and critical care physician at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where he is currently Chairman of the Department of Medicine presents on management of massive pulmonary embolism as part of the

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PRINCIPLE Investigators Study Inhaled Budesonide for COVID-19

PulmCCM

Jon-Emile S. Kenny MD [ @heart_lung ] “… Sartre tells us that man makes himself this lack of being in order that there might be being.” -Simone de Beauvoir Background Like many early, proposed therapies for COVID-19, inhaled corticosteroids [ICS] had suggestive, conflicting evidence. For example, in a very large observational investigation – the OpenSAFELY platform – patients with both chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma who received ICS had increased r

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Ep 162 Managing Adversity with Walter Himmel

Emergency Medicine Cases

I asked Dr. Walter Himmel to give a talk at EM Cases Summit 2021 on what he has learned in 40 years of practice. Herein lies his profoundly thoughtful answer, that is especially relevant during the COVID pandemic - a special edition EM Cases video podcast of his live presentation at The Summit. The post Ep 162 Managing Adversity with Walter Himmel appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.

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SGEM#350: How Did I Get Epi Alone? Vasopressin and Methylprednisolone for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: November 10th, 2021 Reference: Andersen, et al: Effect of Vasopressin and Methylprednisolone vs Placebo on Return of Spontaneous Circulation in Patients With In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. JAMA Sept 2021. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Neil Dasgupta is an emergency physician and ED intensivist from Long Island, NY, and currently an assistant clinical professor and Director of Emergency Critical Care […] The post SGEM#350: How Did I Get Epi Alone?

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Badulak – ECMO Indications & Complications

University of Maryland CC Project

Dr. Jenelle Badulak, an emergency physician and intensivist at the University of Washington Medical Center presents a lecture on ECMO indications and complications as part of the DC5 lecture series. Dr. Jenelle Badulak is an emergency physician and intensivist caring for patients in the Emergency Department, Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, Medical Intensive Care Unit and Trauma Intensive Care Unit at the University of Washington Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center.