EM Pulse Podcast™

EM Pulse Podcast™


Latest Episodes

OB in the ED: what would ACOG do?
June 16, 2024

Managing pregnant patients in the ED can be stressful - especially because you have (at least) two patients to think about! Emergency physicians are generally comfortable managing first trimester emer

Hot Off The Press: PECARN Cervical Spine Injury Rule
June 05, 2024

In this episode we talk with Dr. Julie Leonard about the PECARN C-spine Rule that was just officially published! Dr. Leonard is the senior author of the study and walks us through the findings, why it

Push Dose Pearls: Intranasal Medications
May 24, 2024

In this episode of our ongoing miniseries "Push Dose Pearls," we discuss the use of intranasal medications in the emergency department with Chris Adams, an ED clinical pharmacist at UC Davis. We talk

Navigating Breastfeeding As An EM Physician
May 05, 2024

Navigating breastfeeding as an EM physician - In the previous two episodes, we explored some of the challenges related to fertility and pregnancy for EM physicians. In the final episode of our three p

PECARN Spotlight: Tools Validated
April 19, 2024

In this episode, we delve into a pivotal multi-center study validating the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) prediction rules for using CT imaging in children with blunt abdom

Navigating Pregnancy As An EM Physician
April 03, 2024

Pregnancy is common during medical training and in the early years as an attending physician, as these stages often align with individuals reproductive potential. The experience can vary widely depen

Navigating Infertility As An EM Physician
March 17, 2024

This the first episode in our three part series on infertility, pregnancy and breastfeeding as an Emergency Physician. In this installment, we shine a light on the often unspoken struggles of infertil

PHOENIX: A Better Way To Look At Peds Sepsis
March 04, 2024

If you practice in emergency medicine you probably live on the look out for sepsis. You likely follow the 2016 Sepsis-3 guidelines for adults which really was a paradigm shift from an infection-assoc

Sickle Cell in the ED: Part 3
February 19, 2024

People living with sickle cell disease can experience severe pain crises, or vaso-occlusive episodes (VOE), and are at increased risk for infections, strokes, heart failure, and other serious diseas

Sickle Cell in the ED: Part 2
February 04, 2024

People living with sickle cell disease can experience severe pain crises, or vaso-occlusive episodes (VOE), and are at increased risk for infections, strokes, heart failure, and other serious diseas

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