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Piece of Cake: DKA/HHS Update Part II

Piece of Cake: DKA/HHS Update Part II

The American Diabetes Association released a consensus report in 2024 on the management of the hyperglycemic crises: DKA and HHS.  Our goal is to give you some insight into the latest...
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Piece of Cake: DKA/HHS Update Part I

Piece of Cake: DKA/HHS Update Part I

The American Diabetes Association released a consensus report in 2024 on the management of the hyperglycemic crises: DKA and HHS.  Our goal is to give you some insight into the latest...
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The Cost of Boarding

The Cost of Boarding

The Cost of Boarding - w Dr. Schreyer & Dr. Canellas Contributor: Jason Hine MD, Kraftin Schreyer MD, and Maureen Canellas MD Boarding plagues Emergency Departments the country (world?) over....
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The Rusty Scalpel’s Edge

The Rusty Scalpel’s Edge

The Rusty Scalpel's Edge- keeping your skills in rare procedures Contributor: Jason Hine, MD Are you dangerous when it comes to preforming rare procedures like cric, transvenous pacing, or Blakemore...
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It’s all about Conduction: Calcium’s Role in Hyperkalemia​

It’s all about Conduction: Calcium’s Role in Hyperkalemia​

It's all about Conduction: Calcium's Role in Hyperkalemia Contributor: Dillon Warr, MD The classic teaching is that calcium's role in hyperkalemia is that of membrane stabilization. However, what if what we...
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Stroking Out in the Community w Evie Marcolini

Stroking Out in the Community w Evie Marcolini

Stroking Out in the Communitywith Evie Marcolini Contributor: Jason Hine, MD. and Evie Marcolini MD Managing strokes in the modern era is challenging (lytics, EVT, timestamps!). Doing so in a community...
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Under Pressure

Under Pressure

Under Pressure Contributor: Dillon Warr, MD, Jason Hines, MD. Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) is a clinical condition that we occasionally encounter in the emergency department and that we should...
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Fever Time!: Biomarkers and Clinical Decision Rules performance by length of infant fever

Fever Time!: Biomarkers and Clinical Decision Rules performance by length of infant fever

Contributor: Jason Hine, MD Recognition of serious bacterial infections in young children is a challenging clinical dilemma. there have been several decision rules and algorithms for working up these potentially...
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Sip On This: GRACE 4

Sip On This: GRACE 4

Contributor: Dillon Warr, MD Pharmacist Reviewer: Elizabeth Tencza, PharmD BCCCP Raise a glass to the GRACE-4 guidelines. These are Guidelines for Reasonable and Appropriate Care in the Emergency Department (GRACE)....
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The Twin Kiss of Death- Boarding and Crowding in the ED and How to Prevent It with Dr. Kraftin Schreyer

The Twin Kiss of Death- Boarding and Crowding in the ED and How to Prevent It with Dr. Kraftin Schreyer

In this podcast we review both boarding and crowding, the twin kiss of death for an Emergency Department, with Dr. Kraftin Schreyer- an Emergency Medicine physician and ED Administrative Fellowship...
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Be The Driver (or Balancer)- Getting The Most Of Your Clinical Rotations

Be The Driver (or Balancer)- Getting The Most Of Your Clinical Rotations

July 17, 2024Contributors: Dr. Jason HineIn this podcast we discuss getting the most out of your clinical rotations in medicine. This applies to anyone in the medical education spectrum- medical...
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The Corporate Practice of Medicine- the rise and fall of Envision and what it means for practicing docs

The Corporate Practice of Medicine- the rise and fall of Envision and what it means for practicing docs

Contributors: Dr. Kenan Bouzida and Dr. Robert McNamaraIn this podcast we review the corporate practice of medicine- a touchy topic in Emergency Medicine. Over the last few decades, we have...
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Airway Alchemy: Status Epilepticus –  Intubation and Management

Airway Alchemy: Status Epilepticus –  Intubation and Management

Contributors: Dillon Warr, MD and Jason Hine, MDStatus epilepticus is a clinical condition squarely in the wheelhouse of the Emergency Medicine physician. Here, we will discuss a recent article that...
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Keep ‘Em Cool, But Not Too Cool- AHA recs on TTM in post-ROSC care with Dr. Mike Burla

Keep ‘Em Cool, But Not Too Cool- AHA recs on TTM in post-ROSC care with Dr. Mike Burla

In this podcast we review the most recent AHA recs on TTM. The current AHA recently updated their practice guidelines related to targeted temperature management (TTM) in the post-ROSC patient…....
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Fat to Fab- Ozempic, Trulicity, the Celebrity Weight Loss Craze with GLP-1 agonists and what it means to Emergency clinicians

Fat to Fab- Ozempic, Trulicity, the Celebrity Weight Loss Craze with GLP-1 agonists and what it means to Emergency clinicians

Ozempic and its counterparts, the GFP-1 agonists have been part of a huge celebrity weight loss craze. This has led to many to see these medications as a get-skinny-quick option...
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Slowww Down, Man. Myxedema Coma: A Case and Review

Slowww Down, Man. Myxedema Coma: A Case and Review

Myxedema Coma is a rare but life threatening endocrine emergency that we must be prepared to diagnose and treat in the emergency department. Buckle up for an in-depth discussion of...
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Intubating Asthmatics

Intubating Asthmatics

There are few things as scary in the Emergency Department as a crashing asthmatic. The stakes go even higher when we are talking about intubating asthmatics. In this podcast we...
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The Beans or Brain?- The ACORN trial and effects of cefepime and pip-tazo on neuro and renal outcomes

The Beans or Brain?- The ACORN trial and effects of cefepime and pip-tazo on neuro and renal outcomes

In the Emergency Department, we often have to initiate empiric antibiotic treatment for sick, undifferentiated patients. Cefepime and Piperacillin-Tazobactam (pip-tazo) are common antibiotic options for coverage of gram-negative organisms, such...
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The Awake Shoulder Reduction- the way of the future

The Awake Shoulder Reduction- the way of the future

Anterior shoulder dislocations are common in the Emergency Department and let’s face it, fun to fix. But this can be a time and resource intensive endeavor- especially if doing IV...
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Blakemore, Minnesota, and Linton Tube Tips and Tricks

Blakemore, Minnesota, and Linton Tube Tips and Tricks

There are soooo many challenges when it comes to placing a Blakemore or other gastroesophageal balloon. The first struggle is your knowledge and familiarity with your own device- is it...
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