In terms of airway management, cricothyrotomy is one of the most advanced airway procedures an ED physician will perform.  It is a last resort procedure...

Many of us have heard the saying that emergency medicine is the best 15 minutes of every other specialty. This, is in part, due to...

Background: Visits to the ED for alcohol intoxication can create quite the clinical conundrum both for acute medical and traumatic reasons.  Acutely intoxicated patients, just...

Background: There has been lots of research published in past years on how to minimize pain and anxiety in children brought to the ED.  Unfortunately,...

Recently I was asked to speak at the Texas College of Emergency Physicians (TCEP) conference April 2018.  The particulars of this session were, five, 10...

Background: Welcome back to REBEL Cast episode 47.  In this issue we are going to talk about some recent trials published in the past year...

In Episode 46a we discussed respiratory failure and NIV.  In episode 46b we are going move on to the patient where you have tried NIV...

Imagine you have a patient in respiratory failure sitting right in front of you. The patient has an increased work of breathing and obviously in...

What’s Wrong With Lectures/Presentations Now? Lecturing style has remained stagnant despite the fact that our understanding of how people learn has changed. Most presentations make...

Background: Placement of vascular access for administration of resuscitation drugs and fluids is a common procedure in the management of out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA)....