CanadiEM Podcasts: CRACKCast, ClerkCast, CarmsCast, First Year Diaries

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 199: CRACKCast E199 – Adult Resuscitation


Core Questions:

 

  1. Describe your history and physical exam in the patient being actively resuscitated.
  2. Discuss the process of deterioration to cardiac arrest with respiratory failure and cardiac obstruction.
  3. List 6 aspects of optimal CPR.
  4. What medications have been shown to improve outcomes in cardiac arrest?
  5. List 8 differential diagnoses for PEA arrest (See Table 8.4)
  6. What is electromechanical dissociation (EMD) and how does it differ from pseudo electromechanical dissociation (pseudo EMD)?
  7. What is echo-guided life support (EGLS) and how is it used?
    1. Carotid or femoral pulse
    2. CPP
    3. Arterial relaxation (diastolic) pressure
    4. PETCO2
    5. SCVO2
  8. What are your targets during CPR for the following metrics? (See Table 8.3)

 

Wisecracks:

 

  1. What is cough CPR and when should it be used?
  2. What is the only antidysrhythmic shown to improve rates of VF conversion to a perfusing rhythm?
  3. What is the minimum coronary perfusion pressure (CPP) is needed to achieve return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC)?
  4. What is the triad of cardiac arrest?


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 March 4, 2019  35m