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2019

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The Anatomy of a Code
The Anatomy of a Code

ACLS is well known to most providers, but the thing that is difficult, even to seasoned providers, is taking control of the room.

The Investment of Sleep with Dr. Michael Grandner
The Investment of Sleep with Dr. Michael Grandner

When it comes to our daily lives, we sometimes forget to invest in one the most important things that factor into our health, happiness and well being - sleep. In todays episode we interview sleep expert Dr. Michael Grandner to help us navigate this world.

[PCL] The Basics of Patient Assessment
[PCL] The Basics of Patient Assessment

In a lot of our training we spend a lot of time learning how to get a history and physical - which is all important and good - IF that patient is stable enough for you to spend an hour thinking through it.

Night Shift: The Silent Killer Part II
Night Shift: The Silent Killer Part II

In Part II we dive deeper into melatonin, hypnotics and other drugs used to help with sleep/wake as well as test Dr. Schmitt with different scenarios.

Night Shift: The Silent Killer Part I
Night Shift: The Silent Killer Part I

In Part 1 we go over sleep physiology, why night shift is so bad for you, sleep hygiene and environment as well as the use of caffeine.

2018

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Deep Dive: GI Bleeds and Hemorrhagic Shock
Deep Dive: GI Bleeds and Hemorrhagic Shock

Get our your cordis’ and coffee - today we get the full scope on GI Bleeds and Hemorrhagic Shock.

Deep Dive: Procalcitonin
Deep Dive: Procalcitonin

We dive deeper into the world of Procalcitonin and help explain what it’s all about, when you should order it and its clinical significance.

ABG Jujitsu
ABG Jujitsu

In this episode, we break down interpreting ABGs into five easy steps to help take your acid-base game to the next level.

The Epidemic Of Good Enough
The Epidemic Of Good Enough

Is competence your target? Or are you shooting for expertise?

Oh, stress
Oh, stress

Oh stress - we meet again. Four strategies to beat the stress of a complex clinical scenario, and just in time.

[PCL] Hyperkalemia
[PCL] Hyperkalemia

In this weeks pulmcast little, we go over a little problem with lots of consequences: hyperkalemia.

As Good as GOLD with Dr. Antonio Anzueto
As Good as GOLD with Dr. Antonio Anzueto

In this episode, we had the honor of interviewing Dr. Antonio Anzueto who helped develop the new 2017 GOLD Guidelines. 

Core Content: COPD
Core Content: COPD

We’re back with more core content: you gotta know it. COPD may seem deceivingly simple at first, but the devil is in the details.
Learning How to Fetch

The way we do learning in medicine is all wrong. It turns out our puppy over here has a thing or two to teach us about learning - by playing fetch.
Cerebral Edema in ALF

No frills, no fluff - let’s dive right in to the good stuff.

Help! I Need Somebody
Help! I Need Somebody

Although it may seem easy, it's not REALLY that easy - things can get a little more... hairy.

Severe CAP: The 'Roid Debate Rages On
Severe CAP: The 'Roid Debate Rages On

What side are you on?

The Curious Case of the Acidemic Asthmatic
The Curious Case of the Acidemic Asthmatic

A 34-year-old female with a history of moderate persistent asthma presents to the ED with shortness of breath. Albuterol nebs are no longer helping, and her lactic is rising. What do you do?

Hired Off Of Rotations
Hired Off Of Rotations

So you wanna get hired off rotations?

Always give 100% (except when it comes to oxygen)
Always give 100% (except when it comes to oxygen)

A profoundly lethal gas that can tear apart your cells piece by piece, leading to tissue damage and organ failure. A gas you're breathing in - right NOW.

To ARDSnet and Beyond Part II
To ARDSnet and Beyond Part II

Part II of our essential-to-know ARDS series. What do you do after you have placed the patient on ARDSnet, but they remain hypoxemic?

And most importantly - What happened to Phil?!

To ARDSNet and Beyond Part I
To ARDSNet and Beyond Part I

For Part I of to ARDSnet and Beyond, we delve into the basics of the deadly disease we call ARDS and being talking about how we manage it.

[PCL] Owning the Airway (when you don't own the airway)
[PCL] Owning the Airway (when you don't own the airway)

For our first pulmcast little we review how to prepare and manage the room for intubation prior to an credentialed airway manager arriving.
ICU Liberation: Alphabet Soup from A to F
Core Content: Shock
Core Content: Shock

This is core content - you GOTTA know it: SHOCK

To Intubate or Not to Intubate (During In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest), that Is the Question
To Intubate or Not to Intubate (During In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest), that Is the Question

Today we discuss a paper from Lars Anderson: Association Between Tracheal Intubation During Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Survival.

2017

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Big Data & Analytics Don't Save People (Humans Do!), But They Sure Do Help - with Dr. Dana Edelson
Big Data & Analytics Don't Save People (Humans Do!), But They Sure Do Help - with Dr. Dana Edelson

No algorithm will ever save a human being, but what it will do if it is a good one is tell the humans who to focus their efforts on. 

[JC SERIES] Episode 4: Oslerphiles Rejoice: We're Gonna Talk DIAGNOSIS
[JC SERIES] Episode 4: Oslerphiles Rejoice: We're Gonna Talk DIAGNOSIS

This episode is all about DIAGNOSIS.

Does a piece of subjective or objective data have value ruling IN or ruling OUT a condition? How valuable is it? What tools can we use to determine this?

Sarcoidosis: Beyond 40mg of Prednisone with Dr. Baughman
Sarcoidosis: Beyond 40mg of Prednisone with Dr. Baughman

We invited Dr. Robert Baughman, the world's leading expert on sarcoidosis from the University of Cincinnati onto the show to discuss some advanced topics in sarcoidosis management.

[JC SERIES] Episode 3: What's the Harm?
[JC SERIES] Episode 3: What's the Harm?

This episode is all about HARM:

Does a particular exposure to a particular variable cause harm in a given patient population?

Sepsis Multicast 6.0: Sepsis Smackdown with Chad Case, MD
Sepsis Multicast 6.0: Sepsis Smackdown with Chad Case, MD

We brought in Chad Case, MD: our System ICU Director and Chief of Critical Care at our hospital system to talk controversies in sepsis management. Is EGDT dead? If so, what do we teach non-intensivists that staff 70% of ICUs nation-wide? Does dobutamine belong in the trash along with CVP, ScvO2, passive leg raise, PA caths & POCUS? Is there anything we CAN do nowadays??

[JC SERIES] Episode 2: Therapy
[JC SERIES] Episode 2: Therapy

This episode is all about therapy. 

Therapy foregrounds seek to answer: Does a given intervention have a meaningful effect on patient outcomes?

[JC Series] Critical Appraisal: MACMAN Trial - SHOWDOWN: Video vs Direct Laryngoscopy
[JC Series] Critical Appraisal: MACMAN Trial - SHOWDOWN: Video vs Direct Laryngoscopy

Listen as we critically appraise the MACMAN Trial (JAMA 2017;317(5):483-493. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.20603).

This trial is an RCT looking at VL vs DL for routine orotracheal intubation in the intensive care unit.

This is part of our Journal Club Series - if you haven't listened to episode 1, hit pause and go listen to that first!

[JC Series] Episode 1: Feeling the Heat at Journal Club
[JC Series] Episode 1: Feeling the Heat at Journal Club

Today begins our first episode in our Journal Club Series.

In this episode, we'll be introducing the concepts of critical appraisal & EBM and discussing how in the world we're supposed to stay up to date in medicine.

Should They Stay or Should They Go? ECMO, ARDS and When to Transfer Downtown
Should They Stay or Should They Go? ECMO, ARDS and When to Transfer Downtown

We work in a multi-hospital system made up of multiple secondary community hospitals and one large quarternary facility downtown. Our community hospitals have a strong ICU team who routinely admit and manage patients with severe ARDS. They are capable of paralytics and proning but do not have access to ECMO. The questions we often struggle with are: who needs to transfer for ECMO? when do they need to transfer? how do we know who will end up being too sick to transfer? at what point should we make the phone call to the big house?

We sat down with our ICU director and our local ECMO guru to answer these questions. Tune in!
Beyond the Sliding Doors | life after critical illness with Ryan Gibson
The AO: Assessment Oriented Presentation
The AO: Assessment Oriented Presentation
New Lungs II
New Lungs II

We snuck in on an interview between two powerhouses in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine - Dr. Amy Hajari Case and Dr. Randall Young. This is part II of a series inspired by a grand rounds lecture on the current state of lung transplant medicine given by Dr. Randall Young. His bio can be found here.

Burn Bright, Not Out
Burn Bright, Not Out

It's stupid o'clock in the morning. I'm wide awake and have been for two hours. Ironically I think tonight's insomnia is because I am on holiday and I am thinking through what I may not have finished or handed over thoroughly enough. I suppose this means I am stressed...

Train the Trainer I
Train the Trainer I

Welcome to the first of our Train the Trainer series: Bedside Education; back to our roots.

The Retrospectoscope
The Retrospectoscope

Warning: NON MEDICAL EPISODE! Admittedly, this show is a little inside-jokey, so we apologize for that. 

Airway Mayday
Airway Mayday

In this episode we talk about human factors & airway management

New Lungs I
New Lungs I

This show was inspired by a grand rounds lecture on the current state of lung transplant medicine given by Dr. Randall Young. His bio can be found here.

2016

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Low Risk Acute PE? Send 'Em Home!
Low Risk Acute PE? Send 'Em Home!

Treating well selected patients with VTE at home without admission is something our group has discussed on and off for the last several years. Today we have a special guest on the show one of our intensivists Jermaine Jackson, MD.

Podcast 6 - On Death, Dying & DNR
Podcast 6 - On Death, Dying & DNR

In this episode, we discuss advanced care planning & end of life discussions with one of our intensivists, Craig Patterson, MD. 

Podcast 5 - Sepsis Multicast
Podcast 5 - Sepsis Multicast

In our Sepsis Multicast Episode 5, we brought on Craig Patterson, MD. One of our intensivists who is passionate about this topic (among many) in an attempt to bring it all together. We take the lessons learned over the course of the last 4 episodes and try to distill it into cohesive message about how to deal with Sepsis in modern times.

Podcast 4 - Sepsis Multicast
Podcast 4 - Sepsis Multicast

In this episode we discuss new Sepsis CMS core measures, new Sepsis 3.0 definitions.

Podcast 3 - Sepsis Multicast
Podcast 3 - Sepsis Multicast

In this episode we discuss PROCESS/PROMISE/ARISE. The 3 new trials that shook up the sepsis in 2014. We followed that with some blood utilization discussion and review of the TRISS trial.

Podcast 2 - Sepsis Multicast
Podcast 2 - Sepsis Multicast

In Show #2/5 we will go in depth into the history of sepsis care including surviving sepsis campaign, Rivers landmark Early Goal Directed Therapy (EGDT) trial, and the Jones LACTATE clearance trial.

Podcast 1 - Sepsis Multicast
Podcast 1 - Sepsis Multicast

In Show #1/5 we will provide an introduction to the series, review some sepsis core content and discuss the debated "septic, normotensive, LA > 4" patient.