EAST Trauma Guidelines on Blunt Cardiac Injury

SMACC Conference and SIMWars

In this Mind of the Resuscitationist Episode, I discuss stop points: one for when you are using multiple vasopressors and especially about a cognitive stop point whenever things are going south.

Can the Inferior Vena Cava Ultrasound guide our fluid administration in the ED? Of course it can!

ACEP 2012 Opioid Prescription Policy

In this Hurricane Sandy episode of the EMCrit podcast, I talk about the confirmation of two of my clinical prejudices.

There is a ton of stuff to do post-intubation besides confirming the tube and giving the team high-fives. What we do in the ED has ramifications on the patient's course in the hospital.

Crack to cure; in the right circumstances you may save a life. ER thoracotomy--do it improperly and you put you and your team at risk.

The difference between screening, rule-out, and risk prediction criteria.