The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine

The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine


Latest Episodes

SGEM#296: She’s Got the Fever but Does She Need an LP, Antibiotics or an Admission?
June 20, 2020

Date: June 14th, 2020 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Dennis Ren is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellow at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. Reference: Kuppermann et al. A Clinical Prediction Rule to Identify Febrile Infants 60 Days and Younger at L...

SGEM#295: Teacher Teacher – Tell Me How to Do It (Diagnose a PE)
June 13, 2020

Date: June 9th, 2020 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Chris Bond is an Emergency Medicine Physician and Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary. He is also an avid FOAM supporter/producer through various online outlets including TheSGEM.

SGEM#294: Blood Pressure – Do Better, Keep Rising with NorEpi
June 06, 2020

Date: June 2nd, 2020 Reference: Permpikul et al. Early Use of Norepinephrine in Septic Shock Resuscitation (CENSER): A Randomized Trial. Respir Crit Care Med 2019. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Max Hockstein trained as an Emergency Medicine physician at Universit...

SGEM#293: CRASH in the US, CRASH in the US, CRASH-2 in the USA
May 30, 2020

Date: May 29th, 2020 Reference: Erramouspe et al. Mortality and Complication Rates in Adult Trauma Patients Receiving Tranexamic Acid: A Single-center Experience in the Post–CRASH-2 Era. AEM May 2020 Guest Skeptic: Dr.

SGEM#292: With or Without You – Endovascular Treatment with or without tPA for Large Vessel Occlusions
May 23, 2020

Date: May 19th, 2020 Reference: Yang P et al. Endovascular thrombectomy with or without intravenous alteplase in acute stroke. NJEM 2020. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Anand Swaminathan is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at St.

SGEM Xtra: Masks4All in Canada Debate
May 18, 2020

Date: May 18th, 2020 I was asked to participate in a debate regarding the issue of Masks4All in Canada by the people involved in the COVID Information for Canadian Physicians Facebook group. This is a private group ~22,000 physicians, residents,

SGEM Xtra: COVID19 Treatments – Be Skeptical
May 09, 2020

Date: May 9th, 2020 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Sean Moore is an Assistant Professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), Chief of Emergency Services at Lake of the Woods Hospital in Kenora, Medical director with Ornge,

SGEM#291: Who’s Gonna Drive you to…the ED – with Lights & Sirens?
May 02, 2020

Date: April 24th, 2020 Reference: Watanabe et al. Is Use of Warning Lights and Sirens Associated With Increased Risk of Ambulance Crashes? A Contemporary Analysis Using National EMS Information System (NEMSIS) Data. Annals of Emergency Medicine.

SGEM#290: Neurologist Led Stroke Teams - Working 9 to 5
April 25, 2020

Date: April 21st, 2020 Reference:Juergens et al. Effectiveness of emergency physician determinations of the need for thrombolytic therapy in acute stroke. Proc Baylor Univ Med Center Oct 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr.

SGEM#289: I Want a Dog to Relieve My Stress in the Emergency Department
April 11, 2020

Date: April 9th, 2020 Reference: Kline et al. Randomized trial of therapy dogs versus deliberative coloring (art therapy) to reduce stress in emergency medicine providers. AEM April 2020 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Justin Morgenstern is an emergency physician a...

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