TOTAL EM - Tools Of the Trade and Academic Learning in Emergency Medicine

To celebrate the Fourth of July, David Fifer joined us to talk about heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and the dogma around these conditions. This topic is one that is frequently misunderstood and David helps us understand the key pearls and pitfalls with heat stress emergencies.

Patrick O'Malley is an emergency medicine physician that invented the IRIG-8 device. He decided to create a device that he feels is better than what was previously on the market in regards to wound irrigation. Learn how he developed the device and how he has incorporated it into his practice.

Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is becoming more widely used in a variety of musculoskeletal applications and this includes infectious pathology such as flexor tenosynovitis. In this blog and podcast, we talk about a recent paper regarding the diagnostic utility of this condition.

Joining Patrick Bafuma again is Dr. John Perkins from Carilion Clinic in Virginia this time to discuss antibiotic stewardship in pediatric patients.

Ken Milne is back to discuss statistical significance to celebrate our 150th podcast. With the different pearls and pitfalls regarding statistical significance, Ken came back on to try and help us navigate through the process and allow us to better understand what this term actually means.

Patrick Bafuma is back with another interview this time with Dr. John Perkins from Carilion Clinic in Virginia to talk about the post-infectious period as a cardiovascular risk factor.

We just finished helping at AAPA 2019 in Denver, Colorado. It was a fun time with over 500 learners being taught by excellent faculty. In this post we talk about the benefits of workshop style courses as well as full courses such as the upcoming Critical Access 2019.

With the recent surge of measles cases, it is important to understand the facts with measles. In this post we cover a recent paper that reminds us some of the key details.

Quite often, people ask what other podcasts we would recommend. These are the top 10 podcasts that always have us coming back for more.

In the later half of 2018, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) published their guidelines with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) patients. These guidelines were beneficial to support some current practices based on current evidence. In this post, we review the guidelines and some of the supporting evidence.