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EM Basic is your boot camp guide to Emergency Medicine. Each episode reviews a core topic in emergency medicine at the level of a medical student or intern. Every podcast starts with a common chief complaint or topic and reviews the relevant parts of the ...

EM Basic is your boot camp guide to Emergency Medicine. Each episode reviews a core topic in emergency medicine at the level of a medical student or intern. Every podcast starts with a common chief complaint or topic and reviews the relevant parts of the history and physical, differential diagnosis, necessary labs and testing, disposition, and some clinical tips and pearls.

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    Febrile Seizures

    In this episode we are going to talk about febrile ...

    In this episode we are going to talk about febrile seizures.  We see this chief complaint a lot in the ED so it's important that we know this topic really well.  Today's script was written by Dr. Andrea Sarchi and will review how to do a...

    Dec 1, 2014 Read more
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    Ebola Update

    Ebola has been in the news for the past few ...

    Ebola has been in the news for the past few months and it has taken on more urgency in the US as cases have arrived from outside the country  Within the past week, transmission to two healthcare workers outside of Africa has been reported....

    Oct 17, 2014 Read more
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    Psychiatric Emergencies Part 2

    Today's episode is the second and final part of Dr. ...

    Today's episode is the second and final part of Dr. Sheyna Gifford's interview with Dr. Les Zun on psychiatric emergencies.  This episode will talk more about treating depressed patients, what you can do for patients who board in your ED for...

    Sep 17, 2014 Read more
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    Psychiatric Emergencies Part 1

    Today's episode is another installment in the EM Basic Project. ...

    Today's episode is another installment in the EM Basic Project.  Dr. Sheyna Gifford took on the task of interviewing Dr. Les Zun, a nationally known speaker on the topic of psychiatric emergencies.  While we did an episode on psychiatric...

    Sep 10, 2014 Read more
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    Hepatic Emergencies from FOAMcast

    Today I am handing over the podcast to FOAMcast by ...

    Today I am handing over the podcast to FOAMcast by Drs. Lauren Westafer and Jeremy Faust.  A little more than a month ago, Dr. Nick Genes challenged twitter to create core content FOAM for hepatic emergencies.  Lauren and Jeremy did an...

    Aug 7, 2014 Read more
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    Airway Update Screencast

    Today is the third anniversary of the EM Basic podcast. ...

    Today is the third anniversary of the EM Basic podcast.  To celebrate this milestone, this is a screencast titled "Airway Update".  I first prepared this lecture about two years ago for a conference but the topics are still...

    Jul 27, 2014 Read more
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    Salicylate Overdose

    Today's episode is another installment for the EM Basic Project ...

    Today's episode is another installment for the EM Basic Project by Dr. Andrea Sarchi.  Salicylate overdose is a toxidrome that we have to be on the lookout for in the ED.  While some cases are obvious because the patient or EMS can tell us...

    Jul 23, 2014 Read more
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    Acetaminophen overdose

    Today's episode talks about the diagnosis and management of Acetaminophen ...

    Today's episode talks about the diagnosis and management of Acetaminophen overdose.  This is another addition to the EM Basic Project written by Andrea Sarchi. We encounter acetaminophen overdose frequently in the ED and we need to be on the look...

    Jun 24, 2014 Read more
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    Documentation

    In today's episode we are going to talk about documentation ...

    In today's episode we are going to talk about documentation in the ED.  It is very important that we are complete but concise in our documentation in order to provide an accurate record for the patient's ED patient to protect them and ourselves...

    May 1, 2014 Read more
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    Asymptomatic Hypertension

    The patient's blood pressure is 190/80 but they feel fine...how ...

    The patient's blood pressure is 190/80 but they feel fine...how do we treat these patients in the ED?  Labs?  EKG? BP meds?  Admission???...but they are here for an ankle sprain!  Asymptomatic hypertension is a challenging...

    Feb 17, 2014 Read more
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