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Date: July 13th, 2017

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Ian Stiell is Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa. He is internationally recognized for his research in emergency medicine with a focus on the development of clinical decision rules. Ian is best known for the development of the Ottawa Ankle Rules and Canadian C-Spine Rule,…

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Date:  June 21st, 2017

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Joseph Lex is considered by many to be the Godfather of the FOAM (Free Open Access to Medication) movement. Joe is a retired Professor of Emergency Medicine from Temple University. He created a site called Free Emergency Medicine Talks that has thousands of recorded of lectures. It…

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Date:  May 12th, 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 Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Diane will be a keynote speaker at FeminEM conference in New York City this October called …

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Date: July 11th, 2017

Reference: Bookman K et al. Embedded Clinical Decision Support in Electronic Health Record Decreases Use of High-cost Imaging in the Emergency Department: EmbED study. AEM July 2017.

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Justin Morgenstern is an emergency physician and the Director of Simulation Education at Markham Stouffville Hospital in Ontario. He is…

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Date: May 30th, 2017

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Andrew Worster. Andrew is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at McMaster University, home of evidence based medicine (EBM), Associate Member of Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, creator of the Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine (BEEM) and my EBM mentor.

Legends of Emergency Medicine: This…

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Date: June 21st, 2017

Reference: Konstantinides et al. Impact of Thrombolytic Therapy
 on the Long-Term Outcome of Intermediate-Risk Pulmonary Embolism. JACC March 2017

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Kirsty Challen (@KirstyChallen) is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust (North West England). She did her Medical School at Manchester, with a History of…

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Date: June 20th, 2017

Reference: Bernard et al. Induction of Therapeutic Hypothermia During Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Using a Rapid Infusion of Cold Saline
The RINSE Trial (Rapid Infusion of Cold Normal Saline). Circulation 2016.

Guest Skeptic: Jay Loosley is a Registered Nurse, and an Advanced Care Paramedic in London.  His background includes working as…

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Date: June 20th, 2017

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Dara Kass is an Emergency Physician, mother of three, wife of one and champion for the evolution of women in medicine. She is also the Editor in Chief of FeminEM (Females in Emergency Medicine).

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Date: June 14th, 2017

I had the pleasure of presenting at the Intra America Emergency Medicine Conference (#IAEMC17) held in Costa Rica last month. Thank you to Dr. Manrique Umana for inviting me and the conference organizers for putting on such an amazing  and educational event. I had a fantastic time meeting so many wonderful…

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Date: June 5th, 2017

Reference: Baharoglu et al. Platelet transfusion versus standard care after acute stroke due to spontaneous cerebral haemorrhage associated with antiplatelet therapy (PATCH): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial. Lancet 2016.

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Robert Edmonds is an Emergency Medicine staff physician in Newport News, VA and a recent graduate of…