(http://emergencymedicinecases.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Atrial-Fibriallation.jpg)In this bonus EM Cases podcast, The Stiell Sessions 2, we have Dr. Ian Stiell discussing an update in Atrial Fibrillation 2014 management including the age-old question

(http://emergencymedicinecases.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/stiell-sessions-EM-Cases1.jpg)There are hundreds of clinical decision rules and risk scales published in the medical literature, some more widely adopted than others. Dr. Ian Stiell, the father

(http://emergencymedicinecases.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/EM_Cases_JournalJam_Logo240.jpg)It makes sense that the treatment of primary spnontaneous pneumothorax would lend itself well to outpatient management, since patients are usually young and othe

(http://emergencymedicinecases.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Weingart-Himmel1.jpg)(http://emergencymedicinecases.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Weingart-Himmel1.jpg)Hot on the heels of Dr. Scott Weingart's latest publication in the Annal of EM on Preo...

(http://emergencymedicinecases.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ortho-misses.jpg)We rarely discuss medico-legal issues on EM Cases because it misguides us a bit from good patient centered care – which is what emergency medicine is really all about. Nonet

If you believe that coping with some of the people we deal with in emergency medicine is difficult or impossible, you’re not alone. We all feel this way from time to time. Managing difficult patients can be a challenge to the health care provider and t

Dr. David Carr presents his third of EM Cases' Carr's Cases. This series features potentially debilitating diagnoses that may be thought of as 'zebras', but actually have a higher incidence then we might think - and if diagnosed early, can significantly

In this first ever episode of the Journal Jam podcast, a collaboration between EM Cases, Academic Life in EM and The Annals of Emergency Medicine's Global Emergency Medicine Journal Club, Teresa Chan and I, along with Jeff Kline, Jonathan Kirschner, Anan

Kids aren't little adults. Pediatric sepsis and septic shock usually presents as 'cold shock' where as adult septic shock usually presents as 'warm shock', for example. In this episode, a continuation of our discussion on Fever from with Ottawa PEM exper

If you believe that coping with some of the people we deal with in emergency medicine is difficult or impossible, you’re not alone. We all feel this way from time to time. We all work in stressful environments where it may feel as though we have too li