TamingtheSRU

This is part 3 of 3 recapping our most recent journal club where we looked at the evidence for the safety and efficacy of droperidol for treating acute agitation in the ED. In this final episode, Dr. Christa Pulvino will share her summary of the DORM trial done by Isbister et al which looked at IM droperidol vs midazolam for violence and acute behavioral disturbance in the ED.

This is our second in a 3 part series looking at the evidence for the safety and efficacy of droperidol for acute agitation in the ED. In this episode, Dr. Shawn Hassani leads us in a discussion of an article by Taylor et al which was a randomized trial of droperidol vs droperidol + midazolam vs olanzapine.

This is part 1 of our 3 part series recapping our most recent journal club. In this podcast, Dr Jeff Hill leads a discussion of a paper by Calver et al which was a multicenter prospective trial looking at the safety and efficacy of droperidol for acutely agitated patients in the ED

This is the final of 3 podcasts recapping our most recent journal club. In this podcast Dr. Olivia Urbanowicz walks us through a meta-analysis by Wu et al published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine in 2020. We tackle the question as to whether or not there is evidence that supports the routine use of sodium bicarbonate in patients with cardiac arrest.

In this, our second podcast recapping our most recent journal club, Dr. Colleen Laurence summarizes a recent pilot study by Cheskes et al looking at standard defibrillation vs vector change defibrillation vs dual sequence defibrillation. Could we be on the verge of a significant practice change in how we deliver defibrillation to patients with refractory V Fib/Tac?

This is our first of 3 podcasts recapping our most recent journal club. In this podcast, Dr. Sarah Wolochatiuk summarizes the meta-analysis by Gottlieb et al entitled "Beta-blockade for the treatment of cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia: A systematic review and meta-analysis" published in Resuscitation in 2019.

We cover a trio of papers related to the care of the trauma patient - should we be adding some vasopressin in patients needing >6 units of blood? Is VL really superior to DL in trauma patients? Should we stop wasting time of IVs and just grab the IO drill?

A dive into 3 articles looking at the use of ketamine in the Emergency Department.

01:23 - Slow vs rapid infusion of ketamine for pain control in the ED

13:42 - Hemodynamic effects of ketamine vs etomidate for RSI

21:59 - Effect of versed or haldol vs placebo for emergence agitation in ketamine procedural sedation

We recap 3 recently published articles that look at various aspects of caring for pediatric cardiac arrest patients. Is Epi helpful? Therapeutic hypothermia or normothermia - which is better? Is old school lidocaine better than amiodarone?

In this podcast, we recap our most recent journal club which look at 3 papers on the topic on influenza. One recently published in the BMJ looking at usual care vs oseltamivir for community treatment of influenza-like illness, one looking at baloxavir for treatment of influenza, and a 3rd paper looking at the association of cardiovascular events and influenza infections.