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Date:  March 14, 2014

Case Scenario: A thirty-two year-old woman presents with her usual migraine headache.

Background: More than 10% of people (6% men and 18% women) suffer from migraines. This condition represents a significant source of both medical costs and lost productivity. Direct costs are estimated at ~17 billion dollars a year. There…

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Date:  March 6, 2014

Each week I usually put my skeptical eye on a recent publication. This is an attempt to cut the knowledge translation window down from an average of 10 years to 1 year. I use the Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine (BEEM) Appraisal Tools to do a structured critical review.

However,…

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Date:  February 28, 2014

Reference: Stiell IG et al. Advanced Cardiac Life Support in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. NEJM 2004

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Anand Swaninathan is an assistant program director at NYU/Bellevue Hospital in the department of EM. His interests are in resident education, critical care and EBM. Swami loves debunking urban legends in EM…

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Date:  February 22, 2014

Guest Skeptic: Eve Purdy, Queens’ University

Case Scenario: An otherwise health 24-year-old man was out at the bar and got into a bit of a tussle at around 11pm. When he woke up the next morning he was surprised to see a 3cm laceration on the back of his right…

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Date:  February 5, 2014

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Katrin Hruska (Sweden)

Case Scenario: 73yo man presents to the emergency department with an exacerbation of his COPD. He quit smoking two days ago when his breathing got worse. He has a history of hypertension but no history of congestive heart failure. He has been taking all…

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Date:  January 28, 2014

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Philippe Rola who graduated from McGill University in Internal Medicine. He is chief of ICU at Santa Cabrini Hospital in Montreal and an attending ICU specialist at Scarborough General Hospital in Toronto. Co-founder and president, critical care and ultrasound institute (www.ccusinstitute.org). A social media newbie (www.thinkingcriticalcare.com @ThinkingCC).…

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Date:  January 22, 2014

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Josh Williams

Case Scenario: You are working at “The Hut” (Ski Patrol Hut) and a 46yo snowboarder comes in after falling. He has an obvious deformity of his right wrist. He is neurovascularly intact but in a moderate pain. It is 45 minutes transfer from the ski…

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Date:  January 12, 2014

Guest Skeptic: Darin Abbey is a clinical nurse educator for the emergency department in Nanaimo, British Columbia.

Case Scenario: You are working in a busy ED when a young new paramedic crew brings in a post cardiac arrest that they are resuscitating. They tell you that the patient collapsed at…

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Date:  December 19, 2013

Guest Skeptic: Alia Dharamsi

This will not be a traditional episode of the SGEM. We usually present a case, ask a specific question, review background material on the topic and then do a critical review of a recent publication. All of this to try and cut the knowledge translation window…

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Date:  December 13, 2013

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Anand Swaminathan or Swami. He is an assistant program director at NYU/Bellevue Hospital in the department of EM. Swani’s interests are in resident education, critical care and EBM. Swami loves debunking urban legends in EM and is a strong supporter of FOAMed.

Case Scenario: A 25-year-old medical…