EM Basic- your boot camp guide to emergency medicine. Made for medical students and emergency medicine interns to review common chief complaints in emergency medicine from the ground up
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Febrile Seizures
In this episode we are going to talk about febrile seizures. We see this chief complaint a lot in the ED so it's important that we know this topic really well. Today's script was written by Dr. Andrea Sarchi and will review how to do a...
Ebola Update
Ebola has been in the news for the past few months and it has taken on more urgency in the US as cases have arrived from outside the country Within the past week, transmission to two healthcare workers outside of Africa has been reported....
Psychiatric Emergencies Part 2
Today's episode is the second and final part of Dr. Sheyna Gifford's interview with Dr. Les Zun on psychiatric emergencies. This episode will talk more about treating depressed patients, what you can do for patients who board in your ED for...
Psychiatric Emergencies Part 1
Today's episode is another installment in the EM Basic Project. Dr. Sheyna Gifford took on the task of interviewing Dr. Les Zun, a nationally known speaker on the topic of psychiatric emergencies. While we did an episode on psychiatric...
Hepatic Emergencies from FOAMcast
Today I am handing over the podcast to FOAMcast by Drs. Lauren Westafer and Jeremy Faust. A little more than a month ago, Dr. Nick Genes challenged twitter to create core content FOAM for hepatic emergencies. Lauren and Jeremy did an...
Airway Update Screencast
Today is the third anniversary of the EM Basic podcast. To celebrate this milestone, this is a screencast titled "Airway Update". I first prepared this lecture about two years ago for a conference but the topics are still...
Salicylate Overdose
Today's episode is another installment for the EM Basic Project by Dr. Andrea Sarchi. Salicylate overdose is a toxidrome that we have to be on the lookout for in the ED. While some cases are obvious because the patient or EMS can tell us...
Acetaminophen overdose
Today's episode talks about the diagnosis and management of Acetaminophen overdose. This is another addition to the EM Basic Project written by Andrea Sarchi. We encounter acetaminophen overdose frequently in the ED and we need to be on the look...
Documentation
In today's episode we are going to talk about documentation in the ED. It is very important that we are complete but concise in our documentation in order to provide an accurate record for the patient's ED patient to protect them and ourselves...
Asymptomatic Hypertension
The patient's blood pressure is 190/80 but they feel fine...how do we treat these patients in the ED? Labs? EKG? BP meds? Admission???...but they are here for an ankle sprain! Asymptomatic hypertension is a challenging...