EMCrit Wee – Aggressiveness and the New Cutdown with Leon Boudourakis, MD

Today, I interview Mike Lauria on the concepts of toughness and resilience....

Should we be extending ACLS in patients we really want to save?...

Today on the podcast, I address the last little bit from my SMACC lecture on the new management of the intra-arrest: hemodynamic, individualized dosing of epinephrine....

You'll be hearing more from Mike...

This is the another of the Laryngoscope as a Murder Weapon lectures; though in this case it is really more of an aggravated assault....

We now have way too many treatment options for sub-massive and massive pulmonary embolism (PE) patients who aren't coding in front of you. How do you decide which one is right for your patient? To help answer this question, I am joined today by Oren Friedman, pulmonary critical care doc and one of the members of the Cornell PEAC team. Cornell Pulmonary Embolism (PE) Advanced Care Team (PEAC), aka the CLOT Team Oren Friedman MD, Pulm Crit Care; James Horowitz MD, Cardiology; Arash Salemi MD, Cardiac Surger...

BVMs are ridiculously crappy and downright dangerous. The solution? the Oxylator...

The First SMACC-Back from SMACCgold...

In this episode, I speak with Niklas Nielsen on his thoughts on the TTM trial....

I told you today we would have a bit of discussion on Rob Mac Sweeney's FOAM. Well here it is......

Rob Mac Sweeny on the Intra-Arrest Talk...

Should we err towards errors of commission or omission?...

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...

Proning is one of the only evidence-based techniques to affect the mortality of ARDS patients. I've been wanting to do an episode on proning for a while....

I talk with a member of the surviving sepsis campaign steering committee re: ProCESS...

What if you had a REBOA catheter through which you could give blood and drugs?...

Rob Bryant presents a case...

What is the proper care for a patient in cardiac arrest or shock after smoke inhalation if they don't have severe burns?...

This episode, we discuss REBOA (resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta)....

I speak to the lead author of the ProCESS trial, Dr. Derek Angus...

There is a really smart anesthesiologist out there called Nicholas Chrimes. He along with his mate Peter Fritz invented the Vortex Approach to Airway Management. He also runs a blog called Clinical CrEd. He did a post advocating the Mapleson B Circuit as the Ultimate Preox Device What is the Mapleson B? The Mapleson circuits were used for anesthetics in the good old days. At least in the US, we have move to bigger, and arguably better designs for our operative patients. Many would have thought this de...

Rich Levitan on Surgical Airway from EMCrit/ISMMS 2014 Conference...

Cliff Reid joins me for the 1st EMCrit book club on the book, On Combat by Dave Grossman...

This one is really good!...