The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine

The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine


Latest Episodes

SGEM#281: EM Docs Got an AmbuBag – The PreVent Trial
January 25, 2020

Date: January 9th, 2020 Reference: Casey et al. Bag-Mask Ventilation during Tracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults. NEJM February 2019 Guest Skeptic: Andrew Merelman is a critical care paramedic and second year medical student at Rocky Vista Univ...

SGEM Xtra: It’s All About the Bayes, ‘Bout the Bayes, No Fisher
January 22, 2020

Guest Skeptic: Dr. Dan Lane has a Masters in Health Services Research at the University of Calgary, a Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Toronto and is currently a medical student at the University of Calgary.

SGEM#280: This Old Heart of Mine and Troponin Testing
January 18, 2020

Date: January 16th, 2020 Reference: Troponin Testing and Coronary Syndrome in Geriatric Patients With Nonspecific Complaints: Are We Overtesting? AEM January 2020 Guest Skeptics: Dr. James VandenBerg: James has a master’s degree in clinical investigat...

SGEM#279: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me and Use a Placebo Control for a Migraine Trial?
January 11, 2020

Date: January 10th, 2020 Reference: Dodick DW et al. Ubrogepant for the Treatment of Migraine. NEJM 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Anand Swaminathan is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson, NJ.

SGEM Xtra: Come Together, Right Now – Over Renal Colic
December 28, 2019

Date: December 16th, 2019   Reference: Moore et al. Imaging in Suspected Renal Colic: Systematic Review of the Literature and Multispecialty Consensus. Annals of EM, JU, and JACR 2019. Guest Skeptics: Dr. Christopher Moore is an Associate Professor of ...

SGEM Xtra: NNT – WET or DRI
December 21, 2019

Date: December 17th, 2019   Reference: Reeves and Reynolds. The NNT-WET and NNT-DRI: (Mostly) Satirical New Metrics to Emphasize the Inherent Inefficiency of Clinical Practice. AEM Dec 2019. Guest Skeptics: Dr.

SGEM#278: Seen Your Video for Acute Otitis Media Discharge Instructions?
December 14, 2019

Date: December 13th, 2019 Reference: Belisle et al. Video discharge instructions for acute otitis media in children: a randomized controlled open-label trial. AEM December 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Chris Bond is an emergency medicine physician and assist...

SGEM Xtra: Strange BRUE
December 07, 2019

Date: October 2nd, 2019   Reference: Ramgopal et al. Changes in the Management of Children With Brief Resolved Unexplained Events (BRUEs). Pediatrics 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Katie Noorbakhsh is a pediatric emergency physician at the Children’s Hospital...

SGEM#277: In the Pregnant YEARS – Diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism
November 30, 2019

Date: November 13th, 2019 Reference: van der Pol et al. Pregnancy-Adapted YEARS Algorithm forDiagnosis of Suspected Pulmonary Embolism. NEJM 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Theresa Robertson-Chenier is currently an Emergency Physician practicing at the Peterbo...

SGEM#276: FOCUS on PE in Patients with Abnormal Vital Signs
November 23, 2019

Date: November 21st, 2019 Reference: Daley et al. Increased Sensitivity of Focused Cardiac Ultrasound for Pulmonary Embolism in Emergency Department Patients With Abnormal Vital Signs. AEM November 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr.

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