EM Basic

About EM Basic

EM Basic- your boot camp guide to emergency medicine. Made for medical students and emergency medicine interns to review common chief complaints in emergency medicine from the ground up

Publisher

Steve Carroll, DO

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Jul 2011

Latest episode

3 Feb 2025

Latest episodes

1 of 111 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   3 Feb 2025TRANSCRIPT

   111 Hyperkalemia

   Dr. Jordan Cramer joins Dan McCollum to discuss the management of hyperkalemia. Learn key aspects of the history and physical Discuss the importance of an early ECG. Discover important details about a variety of treatment options.

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   10 Apr 2023

   110 GI bleeds or Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage

   Join Dr. Mike Wallace and Dan McCollum as they discuss the management of patients with gastrointestinal hemorrhage. What is the initial management of these patients? Who requires blood transfusions? Which patients require admission to the floor or the ICU? Pearls and pitfalls in the management of these challenging patients are discussed.  Enjoy!

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   27 Mar 2023

   109 Ear and Nasal Foreign Bodies

   Join Dr. Alex Koo as he discusses ear and nasal foreign bodies.  He'll give you a brief run-down of anatomy, history, and physical, before diving into comprehensive, key concepts of foreign body removal.  There will be some great tips and tricks shared! -Where do foreign bodies commonly get stuck in the ear and nose? -What important historical and physical examination features should you focus on for these foreign bodies?  What are considered dangerous objects that need immediate removal? -What equipment and techniques can you use for helping visualize the foreign bodies? -What techniques can you use for achieving a more cooperative patient? -What equipment and techniques are available to extract these foreign bodies? -What complications can happen from removal? -Who should be referred for immediate or urgent consultation with an ENT specialist?

Inside a recent episode

111 Hyperkalemia

Published 3 Feb 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Alright, so we've taken a history, we've done a careful physical exam, we've discussed our initial order set for diagnostics. Let's talk about what we're actually going to do about this elevated potassium level once we've made the diagnosis. So I'd like to divide our treatments into three big categories of things that we could do. One is to mitigate the harms from hyperclaimia by basically stabilizing things so we don't immediately get into trouble. Number two would be to shift the potassium around the body, so removing it from the serum, so that it's not as harmful. And then number three is actually going to be getting the potassium out of the body. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

646 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

122 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

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Quality

79

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

67

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