ANNALS AUDIO AND PODCASTING
The podcasts are created by David H. Newman, MD, and Teri Reynolds, MD, PhD. Dr. Newman teaches at Columbia University and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. He is an Evidence-Based Medicine editor at Annals of Emergency Medicine, authored the critically acclaimed Hippocrates' Shadow, and is widely published in both scientific and popular media journals. Dr. Reynolds is a Department Editor at Annals and currently teaches in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Global Health Sciences at UCSF. She completed her residency at Highland Hospital and her ultrasound fellowship and Masters in Global Health Sciences at UCSF. She is a Department Editor at Annals of Emergency Medicine.
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Audio and Podcasting Archives
May 2012 Issue
May (Vol. 59, Issue 5)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
May Highlights:
Introduction Podcast
-The UK 4-hour length of stay rule – what can we learn?
Podcast
-Episodes of care: how will EM payment structures work in a new world?
Podcast
-ED closures: who does it hurt most?
Podcast
-Banana bags – bringing change to a department
Podcast
-Does viral testing in the ED reduce antibiotic prescribing?
Podcast
-Pharmacists in the ED: saving the day, invisibly
Podcast
-Nontechnical emergency physician skills: how to find them
Podcast
-Increasing Computed Tomography Use for Patients With Appendicitis and Discrepancies in Pain Management Between Adults and Children: An Analysis of the NHAMCS
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Conclusion Podcast
April 2012 Issue
April (Vol. 59, Issue 4)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
April Highlights:
Introduction Podcast
-Controversial data: no mortality benefit of regional STEMI centers
Podcast
-A safe chest pain protocol with early discharge and selective stress
Podcast
-Nurse-administered procedural sedations in Uganda
Podcast
-Sublingual opiates - an option
Podcast
-Does Buffered Lidocaine Decrease the Pain of Local Infiltration? Should Topical Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs Be Used to Treat Acute Musculoskeletal Conditions?
Podcast
-Standards for Rh testing
Podcast
-Intravenous access by EMS – too much?
Podcast
-Preventing acute mountain sickness - what works
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-Can Asymptomatic Patients With a Supratherapeutic International Normalized Ratio Be Safely Treated as Outpatients?
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Conclusion Podcast
March 2012 Issue
March (Vol. 59, Issue 3)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
March Highlights:
Introduction Podcast
-Glidescope versus fiberoptic nasopharyngoscopy for airway view: a trial
Podcast
-Preoxygenation for airway management: a definitive review and how-to
Podcast
-Disaster medicine: concepts, paradigms, standards
Podcast
-Medical Relief After Earthquakes: It's Time for a New Paradigm
Podcast
-Altering the Standard of Care in Disasters—Unnecessary and Dangerous
Podcast
-A biomarker for head injury, S100-B
Podcast
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Conclusion Podcast
February 2012 Issue
February (Vol. 59, Issue 2)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
February highlights:
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Introduction Podcast
-ACEP policy on gifts from industry, and the ethics of gifts and ‘education’ from industry
Podcast
-Gifts to Physicians From Industry: The Debate Evolves
Podcast
-Limiting Gifts, Harming Patients
Podcast
-Coffers Brimming, Ethically Bankrupt
Podcast
-AED failures and adverse events – what happened and what do we do about it?
Podcast
-A clinical prediction rule for low risk chest pain
Podcast
-High sensitivity troponins and risk stratification
Podcast
-Short term outcomes after ED back pain visits
Podcast
-Pain scores at triage improves pain management
Podcast
-Bed rest after LP to prevent headache: worthless!
Podcast
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Conclusion Podcast
January 2012 Issue
January (Vol. 59, Issue 1)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
January highlights:
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Introduction Podcast
-How cumbersome are the time-related CMS measures?
Podcast
-STEMIs can get to the cath lab quickly even during crowding
Podcast
-Disagreement between EPs and neurologists in diagnosing TIA
Podcast
-Stroke mimics: very common, or rare? And how often do they bleed with lytics?
Podcast
-Variability in admission rates for pneumonia among EPs
Podcast
-Snapshot Review: Steroids for Bells Palsy
Podcast
-Dengue fever – one of the biggest prospective studies you’ll EVER see…
Podcast
-Poison Centers, an increasingly important public health tool, and a half century of evolution
Podcast
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Conclusion Podcast
December 2011 Issue
December (Vol. 58, Issue 6)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
December highlights:
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Introduction Podcast
-Pain severity and ACS: when it hurts more is it also more likely to be ACS?
Podcast
-Intraosseus versus Intravenous access during cardiac arrest, a randomized trial
Podcast
-Is discharge after cardioversion of atrial fibrillation safe? A quick lit review
Podcast
-Lumbar artery hemorrhage in trauma
Podcast
-What is the yield of MRI for c-spine tenderness AFTER a negative CT scan?
Podcast
-The ‘Captain Morgan’ technique for hip dislocation
Podcast
-Progesterone for acute TBI – does it work?
Podcast
-Computerized order entry: how many are using it?
Podcast
-Short term death after ED discharge: who’s dying?
Podcast
-A field kit for diagnosing organophosphate poisoning
Podcast
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Conclusion Podcast
November 2011 Issue
November (Vol. 58, Issue 5)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
November highlights:
Introduction Podcast
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Whole body CT imaging in blunt trauma - can we be safely selective?
Podcast
-Validation of the Simplified Motor Score - Goodbye to the GCS???
Podcast
-Predictors of revisit after ED trauma care
Podcast
-Diabetes as a mortality predictor in sepsis - not so much
Podcast
-Probiotics for diarrhea
Podcast
-CT use nationally over the past decade
Podcast
-Preventing pressure ulcers in the elderly
Podcast
-Effective lecture strategies
Podcast
-Who should take the ARDMS certification exams for ultrasound?
Podcast
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Conclusion Podcast
October 2011 Issue
October (Vol. 58, Issue 4)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
October highlights:
Introduction Podcast
-Do children with minor head injury and a normal head CT need further observation or imaging?
Podcast
-Oral vs nasal vs buccal midazolam for procedural sedation in kids, a randomized trial
Podcast
-Financial consequences of reducing boarding
Podcast
-Geographic determinants of cardiac arrest in Singapore
Podcast
-Structured vs unstructured pain control protocols, a randomized trial
Podcast
-High flow 02 during propofol sedation, a randomized trial
Podcast
-Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine
Podcast
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Conclusion Podcast
September 2011 Issue
September (Vol. 58, Issue 3)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
September highlights:
Introduction Podcast
-ED utilization after Massachusetts health reform
Podcast
-What does the public know about AEDs?
Podcast
-How well does a 30-day outcome prediction tool for syncope work… at one year?
Podcast
-Transfers to regional centers for coronary catheterization: is road time a major barrier?
Podcast
-Outcomes of Emergency Department Patients Presenting With Adverse Drug Events
Podcast
-Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine
Podcast
-CDC Update: Antiviral Agents for the Treatment and Chemoprophylaxis of Influenza
Podcast
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Conclusion Podcast
August 2011 Issue
August (Vol. 58, Issue 2)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
August highlights:
Introduction Podcast
-Physician task analysis: how do you spend your time in the ED?
Podcast
-Psychiatry consultations: variations in time
Podcast
-ED Triage: is the process the problem?
Podcast
-Pediatric c-spine fractures: a case-control study
Podcast
-Stroke in kids: what does it look like?
Podcast
-Decision aids for trauma: when do we need the surgeon?
Podcast
-Emergency Department Management of Patients on Warfarin Therapy
Podcast
-Is 2 days of dexamethasone good enough for asthma? A randomized trial
Podcast
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Conclusion Podcast
July 2011 Issue
July (Vol. 58, Issue 1)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
July highlights:
Introduction Podcast
-What patients understand about radiation exposure from CTs
Podcast
-The true ‘discriminatory zone’ for beta-HCG when an IUP is not visible
Podcast
-Hospital characteristics associated with higher ‘Left Without Being Seen’ rates
Podcast
-Interventions that impact frequent ED users
Podcast
-Bacterial cleanliness of ultrasound probes in the ED
Podcast
-Randomized trial of an oral chelating agent for iron ingestion
Podcast
-Emergency Department Operational Metrics, Measures and Definitions: Results of the Second Performance Measures and Benchmarking Summit
Podcast
-Accuracy of Noninvasive Multiwave Pulse Oximetry Compared With Carboxyhemoglobin From Blood Gas Analysis in Unselected Emergency Department Patients
Podcast
-Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Effect of Warming Local Anesthetics on Injection Pain
Podcast
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Conclusion Podcast
June 2011 Issue
June (Vol. 57, Issue 6)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
June highlights:
Introduction Podcast
-Sex Bias in Cardiovascular Testing: The Contribution of Patient Preference
Podcast
-Increased A1C Among Adult Emergency Department Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
Podcast
-Erythromycin Infusion or Gastric Lavage for Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial
Podcast
-Advanced Management of Acute Iliofemoral Deep Venous Thrombosis: Emergency Department and Beyond
-Is Outpatient Oral Antibiotic Therapy Safe and Effective for the Treatment of Acute Uncomplicated Diverticulitis?
Podcast
-A Randomized Controlled Trial of Self-Management Education for Asthma Patients in the Emergency Department
Podcast
-Effectiveness and Acceptability of a Computerized Decision Support System Using Modified Wells Criteria for Evaluation of Suspected Pulmonary Embolism
Podcast
-Rethinking Testing for Pulmonary Embolism: Less Is More
Podcast
-The Six-Item Screener and AD8 for the Detection of Cognitive Impairment in Geriatric Emergency Department Patients
Podcast
-The Effect of Cognitive Impairment on the Accuracy of the Presenting Complaint and Discharge Instruction Comprehension in Older Emergency Department Patients
Podcast
-A Systematic Review and Qualitative Analysis to Inform the Development of a New Emergency Department-Based Geriatric Case Management Model
Podcast
-Implications of Conducting Trend Analyses of Emergency Department Visits Using Publicly Released Masked Design Variables
Podcast
-Emergency Department Management and 1-Year Outcomes of Patients With Atrial Flutter
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Conclusion Podcast
May 2011 Issue
May (Vol. 57, Issue 5)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
April 2011 Issue
April (Vol. 57, Issue 4)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
April highlights:
Introduction Podcast
-Audiotaped discharge interactions: how good are we?
Podcast
-Outcome bias: does a different outcome change our judgments about ‘good’ vs ‘poor’ care? YES!
Podcast
-Noninvasive Hb device: accurate?
Podcast
-Health literacy in the ED and associations: a Systematic Review
Podcast
-Community views on neurologic emergency treatment research: time for more crosstalk
Podcast
-Prewired ECG electrodes: faster
Podcast
-End-of-life-care – how does it go in the ED?
Podcast
-Injuries from personal transporters
Podcast
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Conclusion Podcast
March 2011 Issue
March (Vol. 57, Issue 3)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
March highlights:
Introduction Podcast
-Crowding effects on the quality of care delivered to children with asthma
Podcast
-Delayed versus timely inpatient anticoagulation for NSTEMI - did it matter?
Podcast
-Aeromedical transport to achieve timely reperfusion for STEMI - it didn't work
Podcast
-Multicenter randomized trial of laryngoscope blades in the prehospital environment
Podcast
-Does paralysis change papillary response after RSI?
Podcast
-Airway management with new visualization devices: a new emphasis
Podcast
-Randomized trial using medical language interpreters for optimal care: better?
Podcast
-Translating triage tools into other languages: still successful?
Podcast
-LEAN process tools in the ED
Podcast
-Lactate and CRP, better together?
Podcast
-Does Succinylcholine Maximize Intubating Conditions Better Than Rocuronium for Rapid Sequence Intubation?
Podcast
-The Clinical Diagnosis of Arrhythmias in Patients Presenting With Palpitations
Podcast
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Conclusion Podcast
February 2011 Issue
February (Vol. 57, Issue 2)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
February highlights:
Introduction Podcast
-Podcast Summary
Podcast
-Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine:
-Emptying the Corridors of Shame: Organizational Lessons From England's 4-Hour Emergency Throughput Target
Podcast
-The Effect of Triage Diagnostic Standing Orders on Emergency Department Treatment Time
Podcast
-National Survey of Preventive Health Services in US Emergency Departments
Podcast
-Pain Management:
-Ketamine With and Without Midazolam for Emergency Department Sedation in Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Podcast
-Alfentanil for Procedural Sedation in the Emergency Department
Podcast
-Toxicology:
-Inaccuracy of ECG Interpretations Reported to the Poison Center
Podcast
-Short-Term Outcomes After Fab Antivenom Therapy for Severe Crotaline Snakebite
Podcast
-How Scientific Journals Work:
-Longitudinal Trends in the Performance of Scientific Peer Reviewers
Implementation of a Journal Peer Reviewer Stratification System Based on Quality and Reliability
Use of the Internet by Print Medical Journals in 2003 to 2009: A Longitudinal Observational Study
A Survey of Past Participants in the Annals of Emergency Medicine Editorial Board Fellowship Program
Citations to Web Pages in Scientific Articles: The Permanence of Archived References
How Scientific Journals Work Section Podcast
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Conclusion Podcast
January 2011 Issue
January (Vol. 57, Issue 1)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
Highlights include:
-Estimating future risk after A Fib events in the ED, a derivation
-Wide variations in the management of A Fib across Canadian EDs
-New CHF guidelines: time to improve the mix, increase cross-talk, and move forward
-Fight!: Managing A fib, clinical controversies head-to-head — convert vs control
-Vascular events in dizzy patients discharged home: not common
-When the NIHSS says ’0', it still may be a stroke
-Value of ABCD2 when added to a TIA unit: not so much
December 2010 Issue
December (Vol. 56, Issue 6)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
December highlights:
Intro Podcast
-CT utilization in an academic ED: on the rise
Podcast
-Emergency physician ultrasound for DVT: nearly perfect?
Podcast
-Safety articles:
-Getting the staff together to solve communication problems
Podcast
-A randomized trial of computer support for renal dosing
Podcast
-Labeling and bar codes to reduce errors
Podcast
-Standardizing sign-out
Podcast
-The 2009 H1N1 outbreak in a pediatric ED: just another flu?
Podcast
-Pediatric suicide visits: are there interventions that work?
Podcast
-Web vs classroom ultrasound training, a randomized trial
Podcast
-Motivations and barriers to recruiting new EP’s to rural areas: a survey
Podcast
-EP ultrasound for ruling out ectopic, how good are we? A systematic review
Podcast
Close Out Podcast
November 2010 Issue
November (Vol. 56, Issue 5)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
November highlights:
Intro Podcast
-Waiting room management of chest pain (and 2 editorials to go with it)
Podcast
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Can BNP predict outcomes in patients with ‘indeterminate’ troponins?
Podcast
-Etomidate versus midazolam for sepsis, a randomized trial (+ editorial)
Podcast
-Infection rates in ED-placed central lines
Podcast
-Patient-controlled sedation for procedures, a randomized trial
Podcast
-Sufentanyl for prehospital pain control, a randomized trial
Podcast
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Pain scores in the elderly--what’s the minimum clinically important change?
Podcast
-Beta-blockers for acute MI - is there benefit? (+Author interview)
Podcast
Close Out Podcast
October 2010 Issue
October (Vol. 56, Issue 4)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
October highlights:
Intro Podcast
-Translating ACEP clinical policies into computer decision support
Podcast
-PE diagnosis strategies, a cost-effectiveness analysis
Podcast
-Dynamic research, static literature
Podcast
-Ambulance diversion affects at-risk populations most
Podcast
-Implementing 2005 AHA guidelines and improvements in survival of cardiac arrest
Podcast
-A review and meta-analysis of syncope decision aids
Podcast
-Co-oximetry for carboxyhemoglobin measurement: how accurate?
Podcast
-Droperidol vs midazolam for sedation in aggressive ED patients
Podcast
-Domestic Violence screening in the ED: a randomized trial
Podcast
Close Out Podcast
September 2010 Issue
September (Vol. 56, Issue 3)
Full Podcast - Audio (MP3)
September highlights:
Intro Podcast
-A Randomized trial of stress MRI for chest pain management
Podcast
-Coronary Artery Calcium Scores for chest pain patients: what does it add?
Podcast
-Load bearing devices to do your CPR: how do they perform?
Podcast
-Very high mortality rates among patients with delirium in the ED
Podcast
-Follow-up outcomes are surprising among observation unit short stay patients
Podcast
-Auto injector epi in digits and their outcomes: further proof of safety
Podcast
-Bradykinin receptor antagonist (icatibant) for angioedema: a case series
Podcast
-RCT: Antibiotics vs placebo for abscesses — a surgical disease?
Podcast
-Facilitated web-based self-triage for influenza-like illness – the SORT system
Podcast
Close Out Podcast
August 2010 Issue
August (Vol. 56, Issue 2)
Audio (MP3)
August highlights:
-Video laryngoscopy for ED airways – how often does it help?
-ET cuff pressures at altitude in flight – bloated
-ED management of airways in obese patients – a review
-Etomidate and clinical outcomes – a systematic review of a blazing controversy
-A trial of biliary ultrasound by emergency physicians – as good as radiologists?
-CTs limited to region of tenderness: a trial – how much would we miss?
-Removing fecal occult blood tests from the ED – does it change behaviors?
-Large-scale databases for research – what can each tell us?
-Attrition from EM practice – who leaves, and how many?
-Emergency medicine in Iraq – building from (nearly) scratch
July 2010 Issue
July (Vol. 56, Issue 1)
Audio (MP3)
Highlights include:
-ED migraines - 2 RCTs agree (again): triptans down, NSAIDs, antiemetics still on top
-A statewide prescription registry changes prescription habits: Is knowing your patient's prescription history good or bad?
-Physician orders in triage and impact on length of stay
-Myths and realities of frequent ED users
-Defining the "emergency care sensitive condition," a research agenda and proposal
-A novel marker for kidney injury in sepsis, how accurate?
-Changes in the rabies vaccine schedule, 5 goes to 4
June 2010 Issue
June (Vol. 55, Issue 6)
Audio (MP3)
May 2010 Issue
May (Vol. 55, Issue 5)
Audio (MP3)
Highlights include:
-Randomized trial of antibiotics or placebo for abscesses in peds who won?
-Is ondansetron masking important diagnoses? a chart review of 34000 children
-Are emergency physicians activating the cath team appropriately in one major medical center?
-The SF syncope rule, another assessment and another finding
-Interview: past, present, and future of cardiac research in EM, Judd Hollander
-EBEM: Can you give penicillin to penicillin allergic patients? Should we be using antivirals for Bells Palsy?
March/April 2010 Issues
March/April (Vol. 55, Issue 3/4)
March Audio (MP3)
April Audio (MP3)
Highlights include:
-Pulmonary Embolism - Three MAJOR articles on PE, including testing for and diagnosing the disease
-Safety risks in the ED - Emergency physician perceptions, compared to national safety goals
-Inadvertent epinephrine overdoses: how to avoid this common problem
-Cyanide poisoning: two randomized animal trials and an interview with toxicologist Richard Dart
February 2010 Issue
February (Vol. 55, Issue 2)
Audio (MP3)
Highlights:
-Validation of the ABCD2 score for predicting stroke within 7 days in admitted TIA patients
-Average wait times and lengths of stay for EDs in the U.S.
-Handoffs: Emergency physician-hospitalist and Emergency physician-Emergency physician signouts the good, the bad, and how to start assessing
-A bedside visual test to quantify methemoglobinemia
-Methamphetamine body stuffers and their outcomes
January 2010 Issue
January (Vol. 55, Issue 1)
Audio (MP3)
Highlights include:
-How accurate is noncontrast CT for the diagnosis of appendicitis? A meta-analysis
-International experiences the ethical challenge of short-term medical excursions
-Impact of a mobile pediatric emergency response team for an influenza epidemic
-How often are emergency physicians testing and treating for influenza?
-Informed consent are media messages accurate for community consent in high risk trials? And in low risk, observational studies how often do subjects read the consent document?
And from the EBM section
-How accurate are clinical factors in the diagnosis of IBS?
-Is nebulized saline effective for ED management of bronchiolitis?
December 2009 Issue
December (Vol. 54, Issue 6)
Audio (MP3)
Highlights include:
* The prevalence of prolonged QTc in the ED
* Risk levels for major adverse events after syncope in the elderly
* 80-lead EKG: how much does it add, and what is it adding?
* Admission v. discharge imbalances and crowding in the ED
* What patient groups are disproportionately filling our EDs as volumes increase?
November 2009 Issue
November (Vol. 54, Issue 5)
Audio (MP3)
Highlights include:
* Interruptions during EMS CPR how common? And is a non-rebreather better than a BVM?
* Out-of-hospital use of the Canadian c-spine rule
* Med student testing for EM rotations: a randomized controlled trial
* Battery-operated intraosseus needle driver: success rate in cadavers
* MRSA in septic arthritis
* EBM reviews: Factor VII in trauma, ED cardioversion for AF, and H&P for PAD
October 2009 Issue
October (Vol. 54, Issue 4)
Audio (MP3)
Highlights include:
* The safety of inpatient hallway beds
* Impact of ED crowding on delays to treatment of high acuity patients
* The LEAN method of ED process streamlining
* Utility of a tracking system to forecast crowding
* Rate of serious infections in ALTE patients
* New decision aids for blunt abdominal trauma in children and in adults, and a comparison of decision aids for ankle fracture in children
Also, new randomized controlled trials
* NSAIDs vs. APAP+codeine for pediatric arm fracture pain
* The 1+1 hydromorphone protocol vs. typical treatment for acute pain
* IV paracetamol vs. morphine vs. placebo for renal colic pain
* Evidence-based summary of pediatric wrist fracture treatment
September 2009 Issue
September (Vol. 54, Issue 3)
Audio (MP3)
Highlights include:
* tPa for stroke - two studies, two editorials, one massive controversy
* EM workforce - how many ED physicians are now board certified? The answer is...
* Patient expectations - do they determine satisfaction?
* Physician signouts - is there a better way?
* ED boarding of admitted patients led to dangerous errors
* Tamsulosin for ureteral stones - beneficial?
* Evidence-based Emergency Medicine:
* Diagnosis of DVT, paracentesis results in ascites, and treatment of pneumothorax
August 2009 Issue
August (Vol. 54, Issue 2)
Audio (MP3)
Content for this month includes:
* Risk factors for VTE
* Ketamine and cerebral oximetry for pediatric sedation
* Local anesthesia for IVs
Also, articles on cardiac arrest resuscitation including:
* Cost effectiveness of public access AEDs
* Termination criteria for out-of-hospital resuscitation
* Post-resuscitation care for survivors
* Disparities in survival in the U.S.
...and much more.
July 2009 Issue
July (Vol. 54, Issue 1)
Audio (MP3)
Highlights include:
-Chest pain research and eliciting a history: whos right, the doctor or the researcher?
-The utility of stress tests for chest pain patients <40 y/o: little to none?
-Chest Pain Center outcomes and adherence to guidelines
-A surprising finding in the use of ultrasound for peripheral IVs: not better, maybe worse
-CT angiography of the chest for PE: repeat customers
-HIV testing in the ED, including an interview with the investigator
-Penicillin skin testing: guess how often penicillin allergy is real
-Grams stain of peritoneal fluid from the ED: hard to find a reason
-Palliative care in the ED
Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine summaries including:
-The utility of albumin administration
-The value of oral rehydration for dehydrated kids
-Reliable physical exam indicators of stroke
-Contrast-induced nephropathy what is the literature telling us?
June 2009 Issue
June (Vol. 53, Issue 6)
Audio (MP3)
* Dr. Deb Diercks on chest pain triage and Dr. Vivek Tayal on ultrasound training
Summaries include:
* Failures in patient hand-offs
* Family presence: no impact on efficiency
* Computerized risk assessments in low risk chest pain
* Optic nerve diameter doesn't predict ICP
* Neurocognitive testing may identify mild TBI
* S3 doesn't help to diagnose CHF
May 2009 Issue
May (Vol. 53, Issue 5)
Audio (MP3)
April 2009 Issue
April (Vol. 53, Issue 4)
Audio (MP3)
March 2009 Issue
March (Vol. 53, Issue 3)
Audio (MP3)
February 2009 Issue
February (Vol. 53, Issue 2)
Audio (MP3)
December Issue
December (Vol. 52, Issue 6)
Audio (MP3)
