CanadiEM aims to improve emergency care in Canada by building an online community of practice for healthcare practitioners and providing them with high quality, freely available educational resources. Our podcasts are found on this channel and include: CRACKCast (Core Rosen's and Clinical Knowledge) helps residents to "Turn on their learn on" through podcasts that assist with exam prep by covering essential core content. ClerkCast: A podcast focused on clinical clerks and their time in emergency medicine. It provides an overview of key topics that help you to rock your EM rotations. First Year Diaries: A podcast focused on the first year of independent clinical practice in emergency medicine and all of its trials and tribulations. Physicians as Humans explores the struggles that physicians face and how they have overcome them. From addictions, mental health issues, and all manner of personal crises will be discussed to help let those who are currently struggling know that they are not alone.
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episode 196: CRACKCast E196 - Monitoring the Emergency Patient
This updated episode of CRACKCast covers Rosen’s Chapter 005, Monitoring the Emergency Patient (9th Ed.).
Core Questions:
- List modalities for measurement of BP and note which modalities are likely to over and underestimate blood pressure.
- What is pulse pressure and how does it relate to stroke volume?
- List 4 indications for an arterial line.
- What is the Beer-Lambert Law and how does it allow us to measure pulse oximetry?
- How do dyshemoglobinemias affect your measured SpO2?
- What are the 4 phases of the ETCO2 waveform?
- List 5 uses for ETCO2.
Wisecracks:
- List the pitfalls of pulse oximetry.
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- Tan
- Describe colorimetric ETCO2 monitoring and cite the ranges at which you would expect to see the following colours:
- How are ETCO2 values related to PaCO2?
- What are causes of elevated ETCO2?
- What does MOVIE stand for (aka - how to rock your oral exam resus questions)?