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SGEM#195: Some Like It Hot – ED Temperature and ICU Survival

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Fever in the Emergency Department Predicts Survival of Patients With Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Admitted to the ICU. Critical Care Medicine 2017. Guest Skeptic: Jesse Spurr works as a Nurse Educator in the Emergency Department at Redcliffe Hospital in Australia. Critical Care Medicine 2017.

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SGEM#414: The SQuID Protocol

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Case: A 28-year-old male with a history of type-1 diabetes mellitus presents to the emergency department (ED) with increase in thirst and light headedness. The patient states he has had multiple “diabetic emergencies” in the past and usually ends up in the intensive care unit (ICU) on a drip.

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SGEM#468: Wide Open Monocytes – Using MDW to Diagnose Sepsis

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Aaron Skolnik is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and Vice Chair of Critical Care Medicine at Mayo Clinic Arizona. He is board-certified in Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology, Addiction Medicine, Internal Medicine-Critical Care, and Neurocritical Care.

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Is there a Precedence for Precedex in the ED?

EMOttawa

Precedex (dexmedetomidine) is an alpha-2 adrenergic agonist increasingly used in critical care environments for sedation and anxiolysis. Historically, it has been used more frequently in the ICU than in Emergency Departments, likely due to provider comfort. […] The post Is there a Precedence for Precedex in the ED?

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SGEM#394: Say Bye Bye Bicarb for Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Sodium bicarbonate use during pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a secondary analysis of the icu-resuscitation project trial. Pediatric Crit Care Med. 2022 Date: February 15, 2023 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Carlie Myers is Pediatric Critical Care Attending at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

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EMCrit 1:1 Nursing Podcast 002 – Post-Intubation Sedation (Pain, Agitation, & Delirium)

EMCrit Project

Intubated patients in the ED should have soft, wrist restraints places without the need for arduous, high-risk documentation or sitters Intubation Checklist EMCrit 176 – Updated EMCrit Rapid Sequence Intubation Checklist Awareness during Paralysis EMCrit 331 – Awareness after Resus RSI and ICU Paralysis – It is Unacceptable!!!

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Trick of Trade: Inflating the Esophageal Balloon of a Blakemore/Minnesota Tube without a Manometer 

ALiEM

A heavy alcohol drinker, who is well known to your Emergency Department, presents with altered mental status, except that he looks different this time. In our emergency department, the RTs do not spend a lot of time going around measuring cuff pressures and usually save that until the patient reaches the ICU.

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