It costs you nothing…
***Trigger warning: this episode includes discussion of child abuse*** This is a follow up episode that dives deeper on why a bruised baby is worrisome, important aspects of a social history, and screening for abuse ....
Category: Heartbeats
These are focused mini episodes.
Pot Tarts – 3.5 years later…
Our first EM Pulse podcast called “Pot Tarts” was on marijuana legalization in California and ingestion in kids. In this episode we circle back to THC in kids with Dr. James Chenoweth on a an ....
My Pastor told me to
Happy spring, everyone! This Heartbeat is all about joy and community, so come along with me to Macedonia Baptist Church in Sacramento, California, where community leaders, Pastor Jeffrey Johnson and Derrell Roberts, teamed up with ....
Maybe I’m not OK
“He came in by ambulance short of breath...” This is how Dr. Taylor Nichols’ tweet thread began. It’s a line many of us could have written - typical of an encounter in the COVID era. ....
The Long Haul
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all of us, and with vaccines starting to roll out, I think we’re all looking forward to getting past it. But some people who have had COVID-19, getting past it ....
Vax Chat
I think we can all agree that this has been a long year. For those of us working in the emergency department, the stress of treating patients with COVID-19, while trying to keep our families ....
Open notes: Patients love it. Doctors fear it. Until they do it.
Open notes or the 21st Century Cures ACT introduces a brave new world of sharing the whole medical record immediately with our patients. In this episode we discuss with an informatics specialist what this mandate ....
We Are Problem Solvers
This is the fascinating story of Dr. Rory Stuart the Bronze Star recipient for his fight against COVID in Afghanistan. He shares what it was like to be blindsided by COVID in the Middle East ....
Glucose = Brain
A new PECARN study found just a single episode of moderate-severe DKA impacts cognition! This game changing article challenges what we thought about glucose and the brain and really makes a case for aggressive DKA ....
Residency Recruiting in the Time of COVID
It’s that time of year again - residency recruiting season! But this year, things will look very different, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. We talk with Dr. David Barnes, Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director at ....