Nailing the paediatric Lumbar Puncture
Ahilan Parameswaran discuses the role of ultrasound in paediatric lumbar puncture.
Category Medical Specialty
COVID-19 patient experience
Mastering Intensive Care 060: Simone Hannah-Clark - Firsthand COVID-19 patient experience from New York ICU
Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest
Does POCUS delay CPR in cardiac arrest? Should we be doing transesophageal echocardiography in the resus room? A pro-con case-based debate.
Multimodal monitoring
Brandon Foreman delivers a rapid-fire talk on assessing stroke symptoms; using EEG after acute brain injury; and advanced multimodality monitoring.
Adult CXR Cases 013
November 2020 Adult Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Travis Barlock, MD and Breeanna Lorenzen MD
Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia (IST)
Also known as primary sinus tachycardia, inappropriate sinus tachycardia (IST) is a generally benign condition that has a prevalence of ~1% in the general population
Samuel A. Levine
Samuel Albert Levine (1891-1966) Polish-American cardiologist. Eponym: Levine sign; Levine grading scale; Lown-Ganong-Levine
Prognosis and Palliation in TBI
Evie Marcolini talks about an aspect of neurocritical care that we commonly wrestle with:...prognostication.
Pediatric CXR Cases 017
November 2020 Pediatric Emergency Medicine Chest X-ray interpretation with Lizz Olson, MD and Kendra Jackson, MD
Bifascicular Block
Bifascicular block is the combination of RBBB with either LAFB or LPFB. Conduction to the ventricles is via the single remaining fascicle.
AVNRT for two
Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia (AVNRT) is a type of SVT and is the commonest cause of palpitations in patients with hearts exhibiting no structurally abnormality.
Lethal and insidious
Addiction is potentially the most lethal disease we encounter in medical practice. As emergency healthcare providers we can have an enormous impact on 'years of life lost' by managing this illness well.