The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine

The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine


Latest Episodes

SGEM Xtra: What Do All the People Know about Confirming ETT Placement?
April 13, 2019

Date: April 10th, 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Scott Weingart. He is an ED intensivist from New York City and runs the popular EMCrit blog and podcast. Scott is attempting to bring upstairs care, downstairs one podcast at a time.

SGEM#251: Nothing Compares to You…Because there was No Comparison Group
April 06, 2019

Date: April 5th, 2019 Reference: Connolly et al. Full Study Report of Andexanet Alfa for Bleeding Associated with Factor Xa Inhibitors. NEJM 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Ryan Radecki is an Emergency Physician at Kaiser Permanente NW,

SGEM#250: Scribes – I Want to Break Free (from the EMR)
March 23, 2019

Date: March 20th, 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr.Katie Walker is an emergency physician in Melbourne, Australia. She is a clinical researcher at Cabrini Hospital and an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Monash University.

SGEM#249: Ace in the Hole – Confirming Endotracheal Tube Placement with POCUS
March 15, 2019

Date: March 12th, 2019 Reference: Gottlieb, Holladay and Peksa. Ultrasonography for the Confirmation of Endotracheal Tube Intubation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Ann Emerg Med 2018. Guest Skeptic: Chip Lange is an Emergency Medicine Physicia...

SGEM#248: She Works Hard for the Money – Time’s Up in Healthcare
March 09, 2019

Date: March 8th, 2019 Reference: Wiler et al. Continuation of Gender Disparities in Pay Among Academic Emergency Medicine Physicians. AEM March 2019. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Esther Choo. She is an emergency physician and researcher who studies health dispar...

SGEM Xtra: Walk of Life – Thrombolysis for Acute Ischemic Stroke
March 06, 2019

Date: February 18th, 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Shahriar Zehtabchi is a tenured professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center & Kings County Hospital.

SGEM#247: Supraglottic Airways Gonna Save You for an OHCA?
March 02, 2019

Date: February 26th, 2019 Reference: Benger et al. Effect of a Strategy of a Supraglottic Airway Device
vs. Tracheal Intubation During Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest on Functional Outcome. The AIRWAYS-2 Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA 2018

SGEM Xtra: No Retreat, No Surrender – Thrombolysis for Acute Ischemic Stroke
February 26, 2019

Date: February 4th, 2019 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Jerome Hoffman is a Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Emergency Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Hoffman has been a voice of reason for decades and taught a generation of physicians criti...

SGEM#246: I Start the Line – But Will It Make a Difference?
February 23, 2019

Date: February 22nd, 2019 Reference: Lane et al. Association Between Early Intravenous Fluids Provided by Paramedics and Subsequent In-Hospital Mortality Among Patients With Sepsis. JAMA 2018 Guest Skeptics: Jay Loosley is the Superintendent of Educati...

SGEM#245: Flash-errrs (POCUS for Retinal Detachments)
February 16, 2019

Date: February 15th, 2019 Reference: Gottileb, Holladay and Peksa. Point-of-Care Ocular Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Retinal Detachment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. AEM January 2019. Guest Skeptic: Dr.

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