Podcast # 501: Take Down Potions

Contributor; Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: A 2026 survey asked Canadian emergency medicine (EM) physicians about their eating and drinking habits while on shift. Among 527 respondents, 35% reported that they never or hardly ever ate during shifts, and 37% said the same abo ...  Show more

Contributor; Taylor Lynch, MD Educational Pearls: Thoracotomy Thoracotomy is used in traumatic cardiac arrest to replace conventional CPR with direct access to the chest. Goals include identifying and controlling reversible causes of bleeding, prioritizing blood flow to the heart ...  Show more

We discuss an approach to the acutely agitated patient and review medications commonly used. Hosts: Jonathan Kobles, MD Brian Gilberti, MD https://media.blubrry.com/coreem/content.blubrry.com/coreem/Acute_Agitation.mp3 Download Leave a Comment Tags: Agitation, psychiatry, Toxicol ...  Show more

Shannon S. Carson, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and associate medical director of the medical and respiratory ICUs at the UNC Medical Center, as well as John P. Kress, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University ...  Show more

This episode delves into the pivotal EuRIDICE randomized clinical trial published in Critical Care in 2023. This episode provides an in-depth analysis of the trial's findings on using haloperidol in managing delirium among critically ill adults in the ICU. We'll explore the impli ...  Show more