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Podcast – Monthly Round Up December 2024 – Chest trauma, IO access, AI and more

St. Emlyn

We cover new evidence on chest trauma management, intraosseous access safety, pediatric imaging updates, AI in medicine, toxic alcohol poisoning, and airway management. St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed This months St Emlyns podcast wraps up Season 11 with a review of key emergency medicine topics.

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2023 AHA Update on Management Cardiac Arrest or Life-Threatening Toxicity Due to Poisoning

EMDocs

Author: Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) // Reviewed by Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK) The American Heart Association 2023 Guideline for managing cardiac arrest or life-threatening toxicity due to poisoning was recently released. Opioid overdose remains the leading cause of cardiac arrest due to poisoning in North America. COR 2a, LOE B-NR.

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REBEL Core Cast 103.0 – Caustic Ingestions

RebelEM

Clinicians are encouraged to call their local regional toxicologist and poison control center whenever a caustic ingestion poisoning is suspected. Management Always consider calling your local toxicologist or regional poison control center, as even substances with a neutral pH may have caustic potential. Pediatr Emerg Care.

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EM Quick Hits 34 Carr’s Case, Septic Arthritis vs Transient Synovitis, Managing Tracheostomies, Ethylene Glycol Poisoning, Ketamine for Agitation

Emergency Medicine Cases

Sarah Reid on differentiating septic arthritis from transient synovitis in pediatric limp, Anand Swaminathan on managing tracheostomy complications in the ED, Nour Khatib on rural medicine and ethylene glycol poisoning, Justin Morgenstern on RCTs for ketamine in patients with severe agitation.

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Ep 124 Burn and Inhalation Injuries: ED Wound Care, Resuscitation and Airway Management

Emergency Medicine Cases

Things like inaccurate estimation of burn size, unnecessary endotracheal intubation, over- and under-estimation of fluid resuscitation volumes, inadequate analgesia and inappropriate wound dressings are just some of the issues where a small change to ED practice patterns could have a huge impact on patient care.

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Grand Rounds Recap 4.5.23

Taming the SRU

Vaishnav Hyperthermia: abnormally high body temperature due to thermoregulatory failure Severe hyperthermia: temp greater than 40.5C EtOH, amphetamines, or cocaine) Prescription drugs (i.e. cuffed ETT) preloaded and intubate through the stoma if PPV needed Infection (i.e.

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Approach to Shock

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Hypovolemic Shock The most common presentation of pediatric shock; look for decreased activity, decreased urine output, absence of tears, dry mucous membranes, sunken fontanelle. Cold shock is the most common presentation in pediatric septic shock, and is treated with epinephrine. Is this in an infarction, an infection, a poisoning?

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