The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine

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SGEM#310: I Heard A Rumour – ER Docs are Not Great at the HINTS Exam
Date: November 30th, 2020 Reference: Ohle R et al. Can Emergency Physicians Accurately Rule Out a Central Cause of Vertigo Using the HINTS Examination? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. AEM 2020 Guest Skeptic: Dr.
SGEM#309: That’s All Joe Asks of You – Wear a Mask
Date: November 25th, 2020 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Joe Vipond has worked as an emergency physician for twenty years, currently at the Rockyview General Hospital. He is the President of the national charity Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environm...
SGEM#308: Taking Care of Patients Everyday with Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners
Date: November 19th, 2020 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Corey Heitz is an emergency physician in Roanoke, Virginia. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. Reference: Pines et al. The impact of advanced practice provider staffing on emergency d...
SGEM#307: Buff up the lido for the local anesthetic
Date: October 29th, 2020 Guest Skeptic: Martha Roberts is a critical and emergency care, triple-certified nurse practitioner currently living and working in Sacramento, California. She is the host of EM Bootcamp in Las Vegas,
SGEM#306: Fire Brigade and the Staying Alive App for OHCAs in Paris
Date: October 21st, 2020 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Justin Morgenstern is an emergency physician, creator of the excellent #FOAMed project called First10EM.com and a member of the #SGEMHOP team. Reference: Derkenne et al.
SGEM Xtra: How to Think, Not What to Think
Date: October 21st, 2020 This is an SGEM Xtra episode. I had the honour of presenting at the Department of Family Medicine’s Grand Rounds at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. The title of the talk was: How to think, not what to think.
SGEM#305: Somebody Get Me A Doctor – But Do I Need TXA by EMS for a TBI?
Date: October 14th, 2020 Guest Skeptic: Dr.Salim Rezaie is a community emergency physician at Greater San Antonio Emergency Physicians (GSEP), where he is the director of clinical education. Salim is probably better known as the creator and founder of...
SGEM#304: Treating Acute Low Back Pain – It’s Tricky, Tricky, Tricky
Date: October 9th, 2020 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Sergey Motov is an Emergency Physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center in New York City. He is also one of the world’s leading researchers on pain management in the emergency...
SGEM Xtra: Money, Money, Money It’s A Rich Man’s World – In the House of Medicine
Date: September 28th, 2020 Guest Skeptic: Dr.Michelle Cohen (@DocMCohen). She is a rural Family Physician, writer (CBC News, Toronto Star and McLean’s Magazine), Assistant Professor Queens University and the Co-Chair of the Advocacy Committee of Canadi...
SGEM#303: Two Can Make It – Less likely to have another stroke but more likely to have a bleed (THALES Trial)
Date: October 2nd, 2020 Guest Skeptic: Dr.Barbra Backus is an emergency physician at the Emergency Department of the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She is the creator of the HEART Score and an enthusiastic researcher. ...