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Date: May 24th, 2017

Reference: Georgiou et al. Efficacy and Safety of Nonoperative Treatment for Acute Appendicitis: A Meta-analysis. Pediatrics 2017.

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Ross Fisher is a Paediatric Surgeon in Sheffield, England. When he is not waxing lyrical about presentation skills (P Cubed) over at ffolliet.com, giving the Greatest Presentation in the World…

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Date: May 19th, 2017

Reference: Willman et al. Do heroin overdose patients require observation after receiving naloxone? Clinical Toxicology 2017.

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Richard Hamilton (@RJHamiltonMD) is Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. He is also the host of EMToxCast and gave a talk at the Association…

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Date: May 12th, 2017

Reference: Ireland et al. A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness to reduce stress and burnout among intern medical practitioners. Medical Teacher 2017.

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Diane Birnbaumer is a Senior Clinical Faculty at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA. She is also an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the David…

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Date: May 1st, 2017

Reference: Poonai et al. Point-of-care ultrasound for non-angulated distal forearm fractures in children: test performance characteristics and patient-centered outcomes. Acad Emerg Med May 2017.

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Corey Heitz is an emergency physician in Roanoke, Virginia. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine and the associate editor…

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Date: April 26th, 2017

Reference: Syed et al. Prospective validation of a clinical decision rule to identify patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain who can safely be removed from cardiac monitoring. CMAJ Jan 2017

Guest Skeptics: Drs. Ryan Tam and Antony Robert are chief residents from the Royal College Emergency Medicine…

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Date: April 20th, 2017

Reference: Motov et al. Comparison of Intravenous Ketorolac at Three Single-Dose Regimens for Treating Acute Pain in the Emergency Department: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Ann Emerg Med Dec 2016

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Ken Milne is a front line community emergency medicine physician passionate about skepticism, evidence based medicine and knowledge…

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Date: April 6th, 2017

Reference: Marik et al. Hydrocortisone, Vitamin C and Thiamine for the Treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: A Retrospective Before-After Study. Chest Dec 2016

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Jeremy Faust is an attending emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston Massachusetts and an instructor at Harvard Medical School.…

Date: April 7th, 2017

Superstar Nurse Brenda Palsa and I had a wonderful time presenting at Talk Trauma 2017 this week in London, Ontario. It is a one day conference for nurses, allied health & EMS professionals involved in providing care for adult and paediatric trauma patients. Talk Trauma is put on by the London…

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Date: March 21st, 2017

Reference: Friedman BW et al. Diazepam is no better than placebo when added to naproxen for acute low back pain. Ann Emerg Med 2017.

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Anand Swaninathan is an Assistant Professor of EM at NYU/Bellevue Hospital in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He is also part of REBEL…

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Date: March 23rd, 2017

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Manrique Umaña: Specialist in Emergency Medicine (ME), working as an assistant at San Juan de Dios Hospital and Hospital Cima, in San José, Costa Rica. He is the current National Coordinator and Professor of the Postgraduate Emergency Medicine (University of Costa Rica). He is also Professor of…