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BCE 82 Perimortem C-section – The Resuscitative Hysterotomy
by Anton Helman
Jun 15, 2020
In this EM Cases Best Case Ever podcast, Dr. Kari Sampsel, Emergency Physician at Ottawa Hospital and Assistant Professor at University of Ottawa, ...
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BCE 81 Tension Hydrothorax
Tension hydrothorax is a massive pleural effusion presenting with hemodynamic abnormalities secondary to mediastinal compression. Dr. Allan Shefrin...
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BCE 80 Pediatric Respiratory Failure
In this EM Cases Best Case Ever podcast Rajiv interviews Dr. Eric Russell, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine, Ped...
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BCE 79 Pediatric UTI – Choosing Wisely
In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 123 Pediatric UTI Myths and Misconceptions, Dr. Olivia Ostrow, Pediatric Emergency Physician at Hospital for Si...
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BCE 78 Traumatic Cardiac Arrest
In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 118 Trauma: The First and Last 15 minutes with Andrew Petrosoniak, Kylie Bosman and Chris Hicks we have Joe Nem...
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BCE 77 Pulmonary Embolism Workup in Pregnancy
This Best Case Ever elucidates the practical challenges of working up pregnant patients in the ED with a suspicion of pulmonary embolism. Since thi...
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BCE 76 Opioid Withdrawal
In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 116 on Opioid Misuse, Overdose and Withdrawal, Dr. Michelle Klaiman, Addictions and Emergency Medicine speciali...
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BCE 75 Reuben Strayer’s Agitated Patient
In anticipation of Episode 115 Management of the Agitated Patient, Dr. Reuben Strayer tells the story of the case that got him interested in develo...
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BCE 74 Coding in the Scanner
In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 113 Diagnosis an Workup of Pulmonary Embolism with Dr. Kerstin DeWit and Dr. Eddy Lang, we have Dr. Peter Reard...
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BCE 73 Esmolol in Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation
In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 112 on Tachydysrhthmias with Amal Mattu and Paul Dorion, Melanie Baimel tells her Best Case Ever of a previousl...
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BCE 72 Overinvestigation in Emergency Medicine
With increased access to timely advanced diagnostic testing in ED rational resource utilization is becoming ever more important. In his Best Case E...
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BCE 71 Cricothyrotomy and the Value of Simulation Training
In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 110 Airway Pitfalls Live from EMU 2018 with Scott Weingart, we have Dr. Shira Brown tell her Best Case Ever of ...
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BCE 70 Female Urinary Retention – The Return of Carr’s Cases!
Urinary retention is 13 times less common in woman than it is in men, and the differential diagnosis is wide. In this EM Cases Best Case Ever we ha...
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BCE 69 Necrotizing Fasciitis
In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 109 Recognition and Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections with Melanie Baimel and Andrew Morris we have...
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BCE 68 Ectopic Pregnancy Pitfalls in Diagnosis
This month's EM Cases Best Case Ever podcast features Dr. Catherine Varner, Emergency Physician at Sinai Health System and researcher at Schwartz-R...
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BCE 67 Child Abuse – Sentinel Injuries
In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 107 on Pediatric Physical Abuse with Dr. Carmen Coombs and Dr. Alyson Holland, Dr. Coombs tells her Best Case E...
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BCE 66 CHD with Bronchiolitis: A Delicate Balance
When patients with known congenital heart disease present to the ED with common illnesses we need to consider how their physiology might alter our ...
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BCE 65 Intimate Partner Violence – A Silent Epidemic
I was taken aback when I came across the statistic that approximately every 6 days a woman in Canada is killed by her intimate partner. Victims of ...
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BCE 64 Salicylate Poisoning
In this EM Cases Best Case Ever Hans Rosenberg and Rajiv Thavanathan discuss recognition and management pearls and pitfalls in salicylate poisoning...
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BCE 63 Failing Up after Medical Error
Dr. Sarah Gray tells us the story of her worst case ever and what she learned from it. About 50% of North American physicians involved in a serious...
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Best Case Ever 62 Penetrating Upper Airway Injury Awake Intubation Do’s & Don’ts
If you were faced with stab wound to the neck and had to act fast, would you have a well-thought out plan that you are comfortable with? In this EM...
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Best Case Ever 61 Biohazard Preparedness: The Protected Code Blue
In anticipation of EM Cases Main Episode 100 on Disaster Medicine with Laurie Mazurik, David Kollek and Joshua Bezanson, Dr. Mazurik tells of her e...
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Best Case Ever 60 What we can learn from Prehospital Trauma Management
In this EM Cases podcast Dr. Joel Lockwood tells his Best Case Ever of a prehospital trauma resuscitation, bringing to light the challenges faced b...
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Best Case Ever 59 Management of Acute Renal Failure with Volume Overload
Sometimes our renal failure patients present short of breath with volume overload and we don't have immediate access to dialysis. What then? Dr. Mi...
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Best Case Ever 58 Euglycemic DKA
It's not only run of the mill DKA, starvation and alcoholic ketoacidosis that can cause a metabolic acidosis with elevated ketones. Euglycemic DKA ...
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Best Case Ever 57 PREPARE mnemonic for Airway Management
Airway management requires a lot things; it requires not only technical skills and specific considerations of anatomy and physiology but a co-ordin...
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Best Case Ever 56 Anion Gap Metabolic Acidosis
In this month's Best Case Ever on EM Cases Dr. Ross Claybo and Dr. Keerat Grewal tell the story of a patient with a complicated anion gap metabolic...
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Best Case Ever 55 Pediatric Cerebral Herniation
In anticipation of the upcoming EM Cases main episode on Pediatric Polytrauma Dr. Suzanne Beno, Co-director of the Trauma Program at the Hospital f...
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Best Case Ever 54 Missed Fracture and Apologizing to Patients
In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 91 Knee Injuries Pearls and Pitfalls Dr. Arun Sayal, creator of the CASTED course, tells his Best Case Ever con...
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Best Case Ever 53 – TTP
As EM Cases has grown and expanded over the past 7 years I've had the pleasure of working with a team of talented people. This Best Case Ever was p...
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Best Case Ever 52 – Pediatric Hypothermia Cardiac Arrest
In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 90 on the Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) guidelines with the lead author Dr. Allan DeCaen and Dr. Antho...
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Best Case Ever 51 – Anticoagulants and GI Bleed with Walter Himmel
In anticipation of Episode 88 and 89: DOACs Use, Misuse and Reversal with the president of Thrombosis Canada and world renowned thrombosis research...
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Best Case Ever 50 – Delirium Tremens
In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 87 on Alcohol Withdrawal Dr. Sara Gray describes her Best Case Ever of severe alcohol withdrawal and Delirium T...
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Best Case Ever 49 – Post-Arrest Hyperkalemia
Melanie Baimel's Best Case Ever on Post-Arrest Hyperkalemia on EM Cases.
Post arrest patients can sometimes be challenging. We need to think of a v...
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Best Case Ever 48 – Organic vs Psychiatric Illness
Sometimes what initially appears to be a psychiatric illness turns out to be an organic illness, and vise versa. In our assessment of the patient w...
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Best Case Ever 47 – Cyanotic Infant
In anticipation of EM Cases' upcoming episode, Congenital Heart Disease Emergencies we have Dr. Gary Joubert a double certified Pediatric EM and Pe...
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Best Case Ever 46 – Chris Nickson on Hickam’s Dictum
EM Cases Best Case Ever - Chris Nickson on Hickam's Dictum.
Usually we use the heuristic of Occam's razor to help us arrive at one diagnosis that m...
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Best Case Ever 45 – Mike Winters on Cardiac Arrest
I had the great pleasure of meeting Dr. Mike Winters on his first ever visit to Canada at North York General's Emergency Medicine Update Conference...
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Best Case Ever 44 Low Risk Pulmonary Embolism
Dr. Salim Rezaie of R.E.B.E.L. EM tells his Best Case Ever of a Low Risk Pulmonary Embolism that begs us to consider a work-up and management plan ...
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Best Case Ever 43 Ruptured AAA
I caught up with Dr. Anand Swaminathan, otherwise known as EM Swami, at The Teaching Course in NYC where he told his Best Case Ever from Janus Gene...
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Best Case Ever 42 Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
When was the last time you saw ventricular fibrillation in a 4 month old? Dr. Simard tells his Best Case Ever of a Pediatric Cardiac Arrest in whic...
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Best Case Ever 41 Opiate Misuse and Physician Compassion
Opiate misuse is everywhere.
Approximately 15-20% of ED patients in the US are prescribed outpatient opiates upon discharge. In Ontario, about 10 ...
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Best Case Ever 40 End of Life Care & Consultant Communication
Dr. Paul Miller, emergency physician and head of a palliative care unit at McMaster Univeristy tells the story of his Best Case Ever on End of Life...
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Best Case Ever 39 – Airway Strategy & Mental Preparedness in EM Procedures with Richard Levitan
I caught up with airway educator, innovator and self-described enthusiast Dr. Richard Levitan at SMACC in Chicago this past June. In this Best Case...
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