Date:  December 4th, 2013 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Chris Carpenter and Dr. Brent Thoma Case Scenario: An newly graduated EM resident gets her research paper published in an emergency medicine journal. Question: How can she know what kind of impact her paper will have on the profession? Background: Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine (BEEM) is a knowledge translation and dissemination […]

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Date:  November 28, 2013

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Damon Atrie and Dr. Amy McCulloch

Case Scenario: 33 year-old man presents to the emergency department at 2AM complaining of a infected tooth. At triage he requests that “oxy” stuff that worked really well last time.

Question: Can a departmental guideline on controlled substance prescriptions reduce opioid…

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Date:  19 November 2013

Case Scenario:  A 72yo man has witnessed arrest while watching his grandson’s hockey game. By-standard CPR is started and he shocked out of ventricular fibrillation using the automatic external defibrillator (AED). EMS arrives and finds an patient with vital signs stable but unconscious. Paramedic calls base hospital and asks if…

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Date:  November 17, 2013

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Erich Hanel, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at McMaster University and the newest member of the BEEM Dream Team

Case Scenario: A 72-year-old man presents with epistaxis. He has no history of coagulopathy but does have a history of hypertension, coronary artery disease and osteoarthritis. His vital…

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Date:  November 7, 2013

Title: Breakfast at Glenfield – Asthma, Social Media and Knowledge Translation

Guest skeptic – Dr. Tapas Mukherjee

As many of you know the SGEM was started as a social media project aimed at decreasing the knowledge translation window down from an average of 10 years to 1 year. It is…

The video I’m Bat Doc was inspired by Christian Bale’s performance in the Batman movies and the YouTube video called Bat Dad by Blake Wilson.

Last year we did a podcast called Hit Me with Your Best Shot. It discussed the evidence why health care workers (HCW) should all get the flu shot. We also…

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Date:  October 30, 2013

Title: Home – Discharging patients with Pulmonary Embolisms Home from the Emergency Department

Guest Skeptics. Dr. Chris Carpenter, Associate Professor (Emergency Medicine), Washington University, Author Diagnostic Testing and Clinical Decision Rules. Dr. Lazo-Langner, Assistant Professor, Western University, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Department of Medicine (Division of Hematology).

Case…

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Date:  October 22, 2013

Title: Under Pressure Journal Club (Vasopressin, Steroids and Epinephrine in Cardiac Arrest)

I promised at the start of Season 2 of the SGEM to try and always make it better. This episode is an attempt to honour that promise.

The idea is to do a Journal Club episode on a…

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Date: October 18, 2013

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Jeremy Faust (EM resident Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City)

Every few episodes I like to take a 10,000 foot view of evidence based medicine (EBM). It is fun to switch gears from the typical critical reviews of random clinical trials or systematic reviews normally covered on…

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Date:  October 18, 2013

Title: Journal of Rural Emergency Medicine – Let’s Get it Started!

We have a BONUS edition of the Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine. It is an announcement about launching a new journal. This new journal combines emergency medicine, evidence based medicine and rural medicine.

At this week’s American College of…