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Podcast 526: Desmopressin for Intracranial Hemorrhage
Contributor: Charleen Melton, PharmD Educational Pearls: Desmopressin (DDAVP) is an analogue of anti-diuretic hormone (ADH) that has been used for the treatment of intracranial hemorrhage. It works by increasing...
Podcast 525: Enjoyable Epistaxis?
Contributor: Jared Scott, MD Educational Pearls: The ED is full of painful procedures. One of the most commonly dreaded procedures is nasal packing for epistaxis, as it is quite...
Podcast 523: A Dizzying Diagnosis
Contributor: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: It can be difficult to distinguish between central and peripheral causes of vertigo. Cerebellar stroke should be considered with any dizzy patient. Signs...
UnfilterED #3: Dr. Katie Bakes & Dr. Pete Bakes
Husband and wife Pete and Katie Bakes, both emergency physicians in the Denver-Metro area, reflect on their upbringings, the many lessons learned over their twenty year careers, and how...
Podcast 522: e-Cigarette and Vaping Related Lung Injury
Contributor: John Winkler, MD Educational Pearls: Vaping-related lung injury initially presents with flu-like symptoms and can progress to respiratory failure requiring aggressive resuscitation including ECMO It is thought to...
Podcast 521: Traumatic Hyphema
Author: Jared Scott, MD Educational Pearls: A hyphema is blood in the anterior chamber of the eye, typically caused by trauma While there is a spectrum of disease, blurred...
Podcast 520: Approach to the arresting patient
Contributor: Peter Bakes, MD Educational Pearls: Peri-arrest patients present a particular challenge to ED providers, as the differential is broad and time is critical The differential for near cardiac...
Podcast 519: Malaria Drug Resistance
Contributor: John Winkler Educational Pearls: There is increasing resistance to antimalarial drugs, especially in P. falciparum. This trend started with chloroquine, but is now spreading to the other first-line...
Podcast 518: Professional Complications
Contributor: Jared Scott, MD Educational Pearls In a 4 yr period at 2 hospital systems, unprofessional behavior of surgeons was monitored via a complaint system. Number of complaints was...
Podcast 517: It’s all about the PEEP
Contributor: Dylan Luyten, MD Educational Pearls: Bag-valve masks (BVM) typically have a port to connect O2 to. Unfortunately room air becomes entrained in the mask, reducing the FiO2 delivered...
UnfilterED #2: Lisa Raville & Dr. Josh Blum
Lisa Raville and Dr. Josh Blum, two pioneers of harm reduction in Denver, discuss the addiction crisis, the current state of harm reduction and how it will evolve in...
Podcast 516: Narcan and Pulmonary Edema
Contributor: Erik Verzemnieks, MD Educational Pearls: Important to realize complications can occur in the post-opioid overdose patient regardless of cause Narcan administration has been associated with non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema,...
Podcast 515: Non-Accidental Trauma
Contributor: Jared Scott, MD Educational Pearls: Non-accidental trauma (NAT) to children is commonly missed by medical providers Try to remember TEN-4-FACES as a useful aide for concerning patterns that...
Podcast 514: Pain Control While on Naltrexone
Author: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: Suboxone, methadone, and naltrexone are commonly used as treatments for opiate use disorder. Naltrexone is a full mu-opiate receptor antagonist, making acute pain...
Podcast 513: Plague
Author: John Winkler, MD Educational Pearls: The plague (black death) is caused by the Yersinia Pestis bacteria. This bacteria is spread by fleas and carried by rats. It is...
Podcast 512: Abstinence is Bad, mmmkay?
Author: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: Abstinence from substances such as tobacco or alcohol are effective strategies to achieve long term sobriety However, abstinence is not an effective strategy...
Podcast 511: Ebola Treatment
Author: Rachel Beham, PharmD Educational Pearls: There are currently many Ebola vaccines that are being studied, and one (recombinant VZV-Ebola vaccine) is currently being used in Africa. This vaccine...
Podcast # 510: Ebola
Author: John Winkler, MD Educational Pearls: There is a new outbreak of Ebola in The Congo. This is likely due to civil war and rebel attacks on healthcare workers...
Podcast 509: Circadian Rhythm and Shift Work, From Z to Z
Contributor: Jared Scott, MD Educational Pearls: Sleep deprivation and disturbed sleep cycles increases the risk of many acute and chronic medical issues such as motor vehicle accidents, diabetes, cardiovascular...
Podcast 508: Are you with child?
Contributor: Chris Holmes, MD Educational Pearls: In ancient Egypt, pregnant women would urinate over barley and wheat seeds to help determine the sex of thier fetus, as well as...
Podcast 507: Who gonna crump?
Contributor: Nick Tsipis, MD Educational Pearls: Communication proves time and time again to be most helpful in preventing surprises after patient admission Frequent re-evaluations and repeat vital signs can...
UnfilterED #1: Dr. Michael Hunt
On the first installment of this new series, Dr. Michael Hunt shares stories, lessons and advice as he reflects on his 35 year career as an emergency physician. ...
Podcast 506: Seymour Fracture
Contributor: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: Seymour fracture is an eponym for a Salter-Harris I/II fracture of the distal phalanx of the finger or toe in children, associated with...
Podcast 505: Sleep on Strep Throat
Contributor: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: Only 10% of patients receiving antibiotics for strep throat actually have the diesease Treatment of strep with antibiotics only slightly reduces the duration...
Podcast 504: Ocular Compartment Syndrome
Contributor: Don Stader, MD Educational Pearls: The eye is surrounded by relatively inflexible tissues such as the bone of the orbit and the fibrous tissue of the eye. This...
Podcast 502: EMS Psych Clearance
Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Patients with psychiatric complaints are often complicated to disposition from the main ED, and many will require inpatient psychiatric stays Some health systems...
Podcast # 501: Take Down Potions
Author: Jared Scott, MD Educational Pearls: Study from Hennepin County EM studied the efficacy of different drugs for agitation, which included 737 patients Most patients in this study were...
Colorado MAT Part 4: Buprenorphine in the Emergency Department
Treatment with buprenorphine is easier, less time consuming and far more effective for management of opioid withdrawal and OUD than standard care with clonidine, IVF, haldol and other symptomatic...
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Colorado MAT Part 3: Medications for MAT in the ED
There are three MAT drugs available to treat addiction: naltrexone (brand name Vivitrol), methadone (brand names Dolophine or Methadose) & buprenorphine (brand name Suboxone, Subutex, and Sublicade). The only...
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