February 2017 REBEL Cast: The All Hyperoxia Edition
February 20, 2017
Background: Many providers and health care workers place oxygen on patients as a way to overcome hypoxemia or for patient comfort. Also in STEMI patients,...
Marco Torres
REBEL Cast Episode 29: IDSA Pneumonia Update
October 10, 2016
Every few years we get updates in the guidelines based on new evidence. Guidelines give us a framework to work with in the treatment of...
REBEL Cast Episode 28: Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation
September 5, 2016
Background: Welcome back to the September 2016 REBEL Cast. We are back with another episode and I am super excited about this episode because we...
REBEL Cast Episode 27: The PROCAMIO Trial – IV Procainamide vs IV Amiodarone for the Acute Treatment of Stable Wide Complex Tachycardia
August 15, 2016
Background: In the ACLS guidelines stable Ventricular Tachycardia (VT) can be treated with either IV amiodarone or IV procainamide, as the drugs of choice. This...
REBEL Cast Episode 26: Advice to the Graduating Resident – Victoria Brazil
April 18, 2016
So this is the third installation of Advice to the Graduating Resident. Again, many 3rd year residents will be graduating in just a few short months...
REBEL Cast Episode 24: Advice to the Graduating Resident – Amal Mattu
March 28, 2016
So this is the second installation of Advice to Graduating Residents. Again, many 3rd year residents will be graduating in just a few short months...
REBEL Cast Episode 23: Is ST-Segment Elevation in Lead aVR Getting Too Much Respect? with Amal Mattu
March 14, 2016
Lead aVR is a commonly ignored lead and I have even heard of it referred to as the Rodney Dangerfield of ECG leads as it...
REBEL Cast Episode 22: Advice to the Graduating Resident – Anand Swaminathan
February 29, 2016
We are getting closer to the end of the year and pretty soon 3rd year residents will be graduating and moving on to their first...
REBEL Cast Episode 21: Sensitivity of Early Brain CT to Exclude Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
February 11, 2016
Background: Headache accounts for approximately 2% of all ED visits. One of the most serious etiologies of headache is aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), which accounts...
REBEL Cast Episode 20: All Cardiology Episode
December 10, 2015
Welcome to the December 2015 REBELCast, where Swami, Matt, and I are going to tackle a couple of topics in the world of Cardiology and Critical...
REBEL Cast Episode 17: The All Thoracotomy Episode
October 8, 2015
Welcome to the October 2015 REBELCast, where Swami, Matt, and I are going to tackle a couple of topics in the world of Trauma, specifically ED...
REBEL Cast Episode 16: Home Treatment of VTE with Rivaroxaban & RV Dilation on Bedside Echo
September 7, 2015
Welcome to the September 2015 REBELCast, where Swami, Matt, and I are going to tackle a couple of topics in the world of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE)....