Podcast 765: Phenobarbital for Alcohol Withdr...

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

Master the management of ambulatory alcohol withdrawal! We discuss the pathophysiology of alcohol withdrawal as well as the triage and treatment of this disease in the ambulatory setting. We’re joined by our bird-loving guest Dr. Stephen Holt (Yale University), an addiction medic ...  Show more

In this episode, Kyle and Joe interview Ben Sessa, a Consultant Psychiatrist. Ben comes on the show to talk about preliminary results from the first ever, MDMA assisted therapy for alcohol use disorder (AUD).

Dr. Allison Pack discusses the new practice advisory update from the AAN on antiseizure medication withdrawal. Show references: https://n.neurology.org/content/97/23/1072 

This podcast reviews the pharmaceutical class benzodiazepine. Review of it's action, therapeutic effects, side effects and administration considerations are reviewed. Memory helps are also presented.