COHb of 32% — should you dive this patient? The answer is more complicated than your tox textbook lets on. New EMCrit with Dave Juurlink unpacking why it is not the slam dunk you were taught. [#FOAMed for a bit]
emcrit.org/423
EMCrit Wee - You Don't Understand Dizziness and Vertigo - But You Need To!!!
-Why the Sudbury Risk Score is fairly useless
-Why STANDING is pretty good, but could be improved
-What you should use instead
[#FOAMed for a bit]
emcrit.org/dizzy
EMCrit RACC-Lit Review - April 2026
All of the Resus and Acute Critical Care Goodness!
emcrit.org/c72a
EMCrit 422 - SSC 2026 Guidelines: The good, the Bad, and the UGLY - a discussion with lead author, Hallie Prescott
A fantastic interview on how the SSC guideline sausage was made and the areas I found contentious
[#FOAMed for now]
emcrit.org/422
EMCrit 1:1 Nursing 008 – The Stroke Show. We're back from break with our standard fare of crucial info for Resus and Acute Critical Care Nursing.
[#FOAMed for now]
emcrit.org/1to1-008
EMCrit 421 - A Friendly Debate on the Role of ED Pharmacists - I want their minds, not their hands! with @MeganARech
#EMPharmacy #EMRX
Listen and then tell us what you think!
emcrit.org/421
EMCrit Wee - An Airway Discussion with Jonathan St George of the Protected Airway Collaborative
Informal chat on the DAS guidelines and a bunch of other airway stuff.
emcrit.org/y6ud
EMCrit 420 - #CVEMCrit - Nuanced Presentations of Dynamic Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction (LVOTO): When It’s a “Two-Ventricle” Problem — and So Much More
@TrinaAugustinMD
Have you diagnosed dLVOTO in the past 3 months? If not, then you missed it!
[#FOAMed for now]
emcrit.org/420
EMCrit 419 – Questions and Answers (Members Q&A Episode 003)
Finishing up the stack of questions from the past few months!! Some good stuff in here.
emcrit.org/419
EMCrit 418 - Questions and Answers (Members Q&A Episode 002)
I answered 1 hour worth of questions--when I recover, I will do the rest!
emcrit.org/418
EMCrit Wee - ECGs in Acute Pulmonary Embolism - Death Threats in Little Squiggly Lines.
I bring @PendellM on the show to discuss the ECG in acute PE
emcrit.org/ecg-pe
EMCrit 417 - The Antibiotics Show - Community Edition with David Talan.
Choices of ABX for Sepsis and Septic Shock
[#FOAMed for now]
emcrit.org/417
CV-EMCrit Wee - Electrical Storm: Surviving the Storm Part II - Storm on VA-ECMO
This one is really of particular interest to CV intensivists, though of course, everyone is welcome.
[#FOAMed]
@TrinaAugustinMD
emcrit.org/storm-va
EMCrit 416 - JanuAIRWAY - State of the Airway 2026
-Difficult Airway Assessment
-PreOx
-Med Choices
-eFONA
Let's reestablish our intubation foundations by using the new DAS guidelines as a guide to discussion...
emcrit.org/416
EMCrit 415 - Medetomidine Overdose and Withdrawal with @JMPerroneMD
Makes you yearn for the days of nice clean pure heroin
Many of these pts wind up critically ill. If it hasn't hit your area yet, it will!
[#FOAMed for now]
emcrit.org/415
EMCrit Wee - Opioid Crisis Part 2 - The Opioid Chain of Survival and Nitazene Opioid Adulteration with Arne Skulberg
[#FOAMed for now]
emcrit.org/axbt
EMCrit RACC-Lit Review - December 2025,
A double episode to finish out the year with all of the papers you need to know...
emcrit.org/kmid
EMCrit 1:1 Nursing 007 - Resus Nurse Efficiency. How to manage sick patients while taking care of not-sick ones as well. 1:1 is an ideal, but let's talk reality...
[#FOAMed for now]
emcrit.org/1to1-007
i guess the ? to debate is ETCO2
EMCrit 414 - HyperCRITical - @PulmCrit on BICARICU-2 and EVERDAC.
-Should we be treating acidosis with BICARB?
-Are a-lines dead?
EMCrit Wee - The RSI Trial - Etomidate vs. Ketamine for RSI Induction in the critically ill. These results are practice changing for many resuscitationists! I know it will change my practice. Listen to this interview with lead authors:
@JonathanCaseyMD and @brian_driver
[#FOAMed for now!]
EMCrit Wee - EVERDAC RCT on Arterial Line Placement in the Medically Critically Ill--Let's hear from the lead author, Gregoire Muller.
I love having arterial lines on my crashing patients, but is there any evidence that it makes a difference on outcomes??
[#FOAMed for now]
emcrit.org/everdac
EMCrit 413 - Translating Recent Sepsis Papers to the Bedside with @PulmCrit (Farkas)
- Confounding Effects of Vasopressin
- Perfusion Index?
- Echo-Pressor-Echo
& so much more...
[#FOAMed for now]
emcrit.org/413
EMCrit Wee - A Discussion of Opioid Adulterants with a Harm Reduction Specialist
[#FOAMed for now]
@courtd0urt
emcrit.org/bpnj
gotcha, Josh and I are recorded a cast on this tomortow—we’ll discuss
mathematically impossible to have anything but their PP cutoff if MAP>=65, so that box in their protocol is unnecessary. discussed here:
emcrit.org/emcrit/andro...
EMCrit 412 - 2025 AHA ACLS Guidelines with Shel Cheskes
We go over some of the more controversial or interesting guideline recs.
Rants on DSED, epi, anti-dysrhythmics and more...
emcrit.org/412
EMCrit Wee - @AndromedaShock 2 Explosion - An amazing discussion with the Lead Investigators. This conversation was educational and so enjoyable. Find out the intricacies of the study
[#FOAMed for now]
emcrit.org/as2-investi...
#edu_kattan
EMCrit 411 - You Need to Understand the Andromeda-Shock-2 RCT for Septic Shock
Personalized Hemodynamic Optimization based on Cap Refill
On this episode, I discuss the ins and outs of the entire trial--next week I speak with the study authors
#ANDROMEDASHOCK
emcrit.org/411
EMCrit 1:1 Nursing 006 - Post-Cardiac Arrest (Post-Arrest) Care
We did the arrest, now let's talk about afterwards...
These are the sickest patients in the hospital and you need aggressive, proactive resus nursing!
Docs should listen to this one too!
[#FOAMed for a bit]
emcrit.org/1to1-006