EMRA*Cast

Disaster medicine has long focused on how to prepare for mass casualty incidents - but there are special considerations for emergency physicians to take into account in the case of terror attacks. In this episode, host Kim Bambach, MD, and Sriram Venkatesan, FAWM, discuss the niche of counterterrorism medicine with Derrick Tin, MBBS, senior fellow in Disaster and Counterterrorism Medicine at BIDMC/Harvard Medical School.

The health care job market has been a roller coaster in recent years - especially in the nation's safety net of emergency medicine. What's a soon-to-be-graduate to do? Host Ranjita Raghavan, MD, shares some job search pearls and perils from Saadia Akhtar, MD, FACEP, and Maria Moreira, MD, FACEP.

Some baked-in practices in medicine don't hold up to closer inspection. This episode of EMRA*Cast turns attention to the use of sodium bicarbonate in cardiac arrest. Host Matt Dillon, MD, (@mdmd_8889) recently spoke with clinical ED pharmacist Mike Perza, PharmD, BCPS, (@pillpushermike) and Dustin Slagle, MD, regarding sodium bicarbonate use during cardiac arrest and why you might want to think twice.

Congratulations on graduating residency! Do yourself a big favor and listen to this advice from Dr. Christina Shenvi and Dr. Nikki Binz, brought you by EMRA*Cast host Dr. Kim Bambach. Start off on the right foot with BHAG, ikigai, and proper spycraft at a new job. You got this!

Your patient has an arterial bleed and a tenuous airway. You've got 1 unit of blood, no vent, and no hospital within hours. Welcome to the world of austere medicine. Host Kate Joyce, MD, MPH (@sceneisnotsafe) and USAF Lt Col Regan Lyon, MD, FACEP, discuss the challenges of treating patients in the most extreme scenarios.

Hemorrhagic shock can be tricky to manage – yet there's no shortage of (sometimes conflicting) guidelines regarding massive transfusion. When do you make the call to activate massive transfusion protocol? How early is too early? What happens if you wait too long? Dr. Sara Crager simplifies this crucial decision-making process with EMRA*Cast host Ranjita Raghavan.

EMRA*Cast Host Shreyans Sanghvi, DO, ventures into the abyss of life after residency to find out how to keep up your learning after training with street illusionist and veteran public speaker Salil Bhandari, MD. Completing his residency in emergency medicine at NYU Langone, Salil has trained hundreds of residents in public speaking, presentation design, and procedural competency. He is a passionate resuscitationist and educational philosopher who currently serves as the Director of Media and Communications and Assistant Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency at McGovern Medical School @ UT Health in Houston, Texas, among busiest Level 1 trauma centers in North America.

Have you ever felt like you're spinning your wheels in your emergency department? EMRA*Cast host Kim Bambach, MD, (@KimBambach) explores how to work smarter, not harder. Guests Eric Blazar, MD (@eblazar) and Guy Carmelli, MD (@GuyCarmelli) focus on how to improve efficiency so you can spend more time on the things that made you want to go into medicine in the first place.

On this week's episode of EMRA*Cast, host Matt Dillon, MD, (@mdmd_8889) talks to Jim Dahle, MD, FACEP (@wcinvestor) about physician finances. Now known as the White Coat Investor, Dr. Dahle shares how the school of hard knocks made him financially savvy - and able to offer advice via his book, website, and "White Coat Investor" blog.

This episode is directed at the resident and early attending.

EMRA*Cast is talking about a range of unusual cases and thought-provoking perspectives from the February-March edition of EM Resident magazine. Join host Ranjita Raghavan, MD, and editor-in-chief Jessica Adkins Murphy, MD, to find out how a Blakemore tube featured in an LGI bleed, whether atraumatic splenic rupture is easy to spot (spoiler alert: not always), and what medical students are advocating for this year.