The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine
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SGEM#281: EM Docs Got an AmbuBag – The PreVent Trial
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
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
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?
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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.