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Enough with cook book medicine and courses for dermatologists--let's provide cutting edge intra-arrest care

My favorite part of SMACCgold; buy some Cricolol

Can we give vasopressors peripherally? And if we do, what if they leak?

It is winter and that means cardiac arrests coming in with extremely low body temperatures after environmental exposure. How do you treat these patients? How do you rewarm if you don't have bypass?

Note: Please listen to the PDP update episode either before or immediately after listening to this one Finally a non-intubation topic! Bolus dose pressors and inotropes have been used by the anesthesiologists for decades, but they have not penetrated into standard emergency medicine practice. I don’t know why. They are the perfect solution to short-lived hypotension, e.g. post-intubation or during...

Here it is, the 1st EMCrit podcast. It's on the topic of Sympathetic Crashing Acute Pulmonary Edema (SCAPE). This condition is on a very different part of the disease spectrum from FOPE (Fluid-Overload Pulmonary Edema, an acronum I first saw used by by @Cameronks) To boil it down to 10 seconds: Start patient on Non-invasive ventilation with a PEEP of 6-8; quickly titrate to a PEEP of 10-12. Start...

In which I introduce you to me and explain what this whole thing is about. (better late than never)