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The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine

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SGEM#461: If You’re Appy and You Know It…Do You Need...

The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine ·

2024/11/23

Date: November 13, 2024Reference: Lee WH, et al. Study of Pediatric Appendicitis Scores and Management Strategies: A Prospective Observational Feasibility Study. Academic Emergency Medicine. Dec 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Dennis Ren is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. He’s also the host of SGEMPeds. Case: A 10-year-old boy presents to the community emergency department (ED) with abdominal pain. It started last night but the pain seemed to

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SGEM#460: Why Do I Feel Like, Somebody’s Watching Me...

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2024/11/16

Date: October 28, 2024Reference: Verma et al. Clinical evaluation of a machine learning–based early warning system for patient deterioration. CMAJ September 2024 Guest Skeptic: Michael Page is currently the Director of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Commercialization at Unity Health Toronto. He leads an AI team intending to improve patient outcomes and healthcare system efficiency. Michael is a sessional lecturer within the Ivey Business School’s Executive MBA program, where he teaches a

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22:56

SGEM#459: Domo Arigato Misuta Roboto – Using AI to...

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2024/11/09

Date: October 28, 2024Reference: Woelfle T et al. Benchmarking Human–AI collaboration for common evidence appraisal tools. J Clin Epi Sept 2024. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Laura Walker is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and the vice chair for digital emergency medicine at the Mayo Clinic. In addition to finding ways to use technology in emergency department (ED) care, she is interested in how health systems work and how patients move through the healthcare system. Previously, she has been an

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SGEM#454: I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight –...

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2024/09/28

Date: September 23, 2024Reference: Essat et al. Diagnostic Accuracy of D-Dimer for Acute Aortic Syndromes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Annals of Emergency Medicine, May 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Casey Parker is a Rural Generalist from Australia who is also an ultrasounder. Case: You are working a busy shift in a rural emergency department (ED) and your excellent Family Medicine trainee presents a case of a 63-year-old woman with chest pain and some intermittent radiation into the

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SGEM#453: I Can’t Go For That – No, No Narcan for...

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2024/09/21

Date: September 18, 2024 Reference: Dillon et al. Naloxone and Patient Outcomes in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests in California. JAMA Network Open. August 20, 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Chris Root is an emergency medicine and emergency medicine service (EMS) physician at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Before attending medical school, he was a New York City Paramedic. Chris completed his emergency medicine residency and EMS fellowship at UNM. He currently practices emergency medicine in New

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SGEM#452: I’m Still Standing – After the Allergy...

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2024/09/14

Date: September 12, 2024 Reference: Anderson et al. Full dose challenge of moderate, severe and unknown beta-lactam allergies in the emergency department. AEM August 2024. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Kirsty Challen is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. Case: It’s another day, another dollar in the emergency department (ED). The next patient is a 63-year-old woman with a cough and fever. After assessment, you diagnose her with pneumonia. You would normally prescribe

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SGEM Xtra: I’m Just An Ordinary Average Guy – Dr. Mel...

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2024/08/31

Date: August 30, 2024Guest Skeptic: Dr. Mel Herbert is a famous Emergency Medicine Physician, award-winning educator, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Mel founded both EM:RAP which creates and distributes Emergency Medicine education in over 160 countries. He also started a non-profit company called EM:RAP GO. This is an SGEM Xtra to end Season#12. I chatted with Mel about his new book, "The Extraordinary Power of Being Average”. He claims he is average and that realization has been key to his

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SGEM Xtra: The Final Countdown – To IncrEMentuM 2025

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2024/08/17

Date: August 13, 2024Guest Skeptics: We have two guest skeptics for this SGEM Xtra episode. Dr. Palma Dr. Francisco Campillo Palma is an Emergency Medicine doctor. He works in prehospital (EMS and HEMS), and at Morales Meseguer Hospital in public medical service in Murcia, Spain. Franciso has postgraduate Master's degrees in emergencies and urgent care, clinical ultrasound, and emergency and disaster management, from the University of Elche, the University of Madrid, and the University of

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SGEM#446: Finding Pneumo…nia in Febrile Infants

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2024/07/13

Reference: Florin TA, et al. Radiographic pneumonia in young febrile infants presenting to the emergency department: secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study. Emerg Med J. 2023Date: May 29, 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Christina Lindgren is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Attending at Children’s National Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC. She also serves as the

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SGEM#441: Searching Searching for the best Clinical...

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2024/06/01

Reference: Tavender E, et al. Triage tools for detecting cervical spine injury in paediatric trauma patients. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2024Date: May 29, 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Caleb Ward is a pediatric emergency medicine attending and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Children’s National Hospital and The George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC. His research focuses on the pre-hospital care of children by EMS. He is the principal

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SGEM#363: View Master – Virtual Reality Immersion...

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2022/04/02

Date: March 31st, 2022 Reference: Butt et al. Take-Pause: Efficacy of mindfulness-based virtual reality as an intervention in the pediatric emergency department. AEM March 2022 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Lauren Westafer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School – Baystate. She is the cofounder of FOAMcast and is a pulmonary embolism and implementation science researcher. Lauren won the 2021 SAEM FOAMed Excellence in Education

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SGEM Xtra: Float Away, Float Away, Float Away – from...

The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine ·

2022/03/26

Date: March 26th, 2022 Guest Skeptic: Professor Melanie Trecek-King Associate professor of biology at Massasoit Community College in Massachusetts. Founder and creator of Thinking Is Power. Reference: Trecek-King M.A Life Preserver for Staying Afloat in a Sea of Misinformation. Skeptical Inquirer March/April 2022 Prof Trecek-King This is an SGEM Xtra episode. I met Melanie through our online interactions on Twitter. She posts excellent tweets about critical thinking. I then discovered her

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SGEM#362: Screen Time – Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You...

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2022/03/12

Date: March 3rd, 2022 Reference: Macnow et al. Effect of Screen Time on Recovery From Concussion: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatrics 2021 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Catherine Varner is an Assistant Professor and Clinician Investigator in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is an emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital and a Clinician Scientist and the Deputy Director of the Schwartz-Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute. Dr. Varner's research

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SGEM#361: Under My Umbrella, Ella, Ella – Review of...

The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine ·

2022/03/05

Date: February 24th, 2022 Reference: Parish et al. An umbrella review of effect size, bias, and power across meta-analyses in emergency medicine. AEM 2021 Guest Skeptic: Professor Daniel Fatovich is an emergency physician and clinical researcher based at Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia. He is Head of the Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research; Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Western Australia; and Director of Research

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SGEM#360: We Care a Lot – The EmPATH Study

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2022/02/26

Date: February 21st 2022 Reference: Kim et al. Emergency psychiatric assessment, treatment, and healing (EmPATH) unit decreases hospital admission for patients presenting with suicidal ideation in rural America. AEM February 2022. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Kirsty Challen (@KirstyChallen) is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine Research Lead at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust (North West England). She is Chair of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Women in Emergency Medicine

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SGEM Xtra: Everybody Hurts, Sometime

The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine ·

2022/02/19

Date: February 15th, 2022 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Tim Graham is a Clinical Professor of emergency medicine at the University of Alberta, and Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Edmonton Zone, of Alberta Health Services from Edmonton, Alberta. Reference: Graham T. Physician heal thyself. CMAJ 2021 TRIGGER WARNING: As a warning to those listening to the podcast or reading this blog post, there may be some things discussed that could be upsetting. The SGEM is a free open access project

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SGEM#359: Meet Me Halfway on the Duration of...

The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine ·

2022/02/05

Date: February 7th, 2022 Reference: Williams et al. Short- vs standard-course outpatient antibiotic therapy for community-acquired pneumonia in children: the scout-cap randomized clinical trial. JAMA Pediatrics 2022 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Dennis Ren is a pediatric emergency medicine fellow at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. Case: A three-year-old boy presents to the emergency department (ED) with fever and cough. On exam, he is breathing a little fast and his oxygen saturation is 94%

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SGEM#358: I Would Do Anything for Septic Olecranon...

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2022/01/29

Date: January 25th, 2022 Reference: Beyde et al. Efficacy of empiric antibiotic management of septic olecranon bursitis without bursal aspiration in emergency department patients. AEM January 2022 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Corey Heitz is an emergency physician in Roanoke, Virginia. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. Case: You’re working in your busy freestanding emergency department (ED) getting absolutely crushed handing out COVID19 tests like candy and are relieved to see a

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SGEM#357: COVID it’s Getting Harder and Harder to...

The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine ·

2022/01/22

Date: January 22nd, 2022 Reference: Yu et al. Inhaled budesonide for COVID-19 in people at high risk of complications in the community in the UK (PRINCIPLE): a randomised, controlled, open-label, adaptive platform trial. Lancet 2021 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Justin Morgenstern is an emergency physician and the creator of the #FOAMed project called First10EM.com. Case: A 65-year-old woman with a history of diabetes, hypertension, and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) presents with three days of

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SGEM#356: Drugs are Gonna Knock You Out – Etomidate...

The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine ·

2022/01/15

Date: January 16th, 2022 Reference: Matchett, G. et al. Etomidate versus ketamine for emergency endotracheal intubation: a randomized clinical trial. Intensive Care Med 2021 Guest Skeptic: Missy Carter, former City of Bremerton Firefighter/Paramedic, currently a professor of Emergency Medical Services at Tacoma Community College’s paramedic program. Missy is currently working in a community emergency department as a physician assistant and recently accepted a critical care position in Tacoma

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