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 215: CRACKCast E215 - Abdominal Pain


Core Questions

  1. What are risk factors for serious underlying causes of abdominal pain? (Box 24.1) 
  2. Explain key symptoms and signs to look for in the evaluation of the patient with abdominal pain. 
  3. What diagnoses are associated with different patterns of abdominal pain? (Fig 24.1) 
  4. List 5 critical and 5 emergent causes of abdominal pain (Table 24.1, 24.2) 
  5. Explain an approach to ancillary testing in abdominal pain. 
  6. Outline a diagnostic algorithm for patients with abdominal pain (Fig 24.4) 
  7. Outline an empiric management algorithm for abdominal pain. (Fig 24.5) 

Wisecracks

  1. What are the structures included in the foregut, midgut, and hindgut? More importantly, why do you care? 
  2. List indications for bedside US in the ED patient with abdominal pain (Table 24.3) 
  3. Explain how referred pain works in the setting of abdominal pain (Fig 24.2)

 

 


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