Podcast 1028: POCUS Before Cath in Pediatric ...

Contributor: Taylor Lynch, MD Educational Pearls: What is the oculocardiac reflex? The oculocardiac reflex occurs when pressure or traction is put onto the globe of the eye or extraocular muscles that causes increased stimulus to the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve (C ...  Show more

Contributor: Jeffrey Olson, MD Educational Pearls: What are they? A flexible balloon and suction tube that we insert into the esophagus and into the stomach to stop bleeding. When to use? Typically used for variceal bleeding. Use whenever the patient is too unstable to be transfe ...  Show more

In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD, and TR Eckler, MD, discuss the June 2023 Emergency Medicine Practice article, Hypertensive Emergencies: Guidelines and Best Practice RecommendationsEpidemiologyEtiologyDifferential diagnosisPrehospital careHistory and physical DiagnosticsTreatmentA ...  Show more

On this month's EM Quick Hits podcast: Ian Chernoff on the often elusive diagnosis of traumatic coronary artery dissection, Anand Swaminathan on proper use of insulin in DKA and in hyperkalemia, Brit Long and Hans Rosenberg on mesenteric ischemia pearls and pitfalls in diagnosis ...  Show more

In this month's EM Quick Hits podcast, Anand Swaminathan on tips and tricks in polytrauma, Rohit Mohindra on diagnosis and management of toxic megacolon, Jesse McLaren on ECG in pulmonary embolism, Victoria Myers on approach to the patch call for cardiac arrest, Brit Long on when ...  Show more