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166: When the Mitral Valve Breaks: Papillary Muscle Rupture After MI

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165: Breaking the Storm Part 2: Antiarrhythmics, Sympathetic Blockade, and the Emerging Role of Esmolol

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BONUS EPISODE: Rapid Response Calls That Never Should Have Happened from the Nurse Gwenny Podcast

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164: Electrical Storm Part 1:The Pathophysiology of Ventricular Storm and the Science of Defibrillation

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163: Nurse Gwenny Takes Over the Podcast

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162: Live From NurseCon at Sea: Burnout, Boundaries, and Finding Your Way Back

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161: We Got ROSC... Now What? Evidence Based Post Resuscitation Care

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160: The 2026 AHA/ACC New PE Guidelines with Dr. Mark Creager

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159: Nurse Led Stroke Alert Process with Kat Siaron RN

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158: What’s Changed in Acute Stroke Care? New AHA Stroke Guidelines with Dr. Prabahkaran

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157: Cracking the ARDS Code: A Deep Dive on ARDS Vent Management Strategies With Melody Bishop RT

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156: When the Body Rejects the Cure: Graft Verses Host Disease with Anthony RN

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155: Rewinding the Clock: Teamwork That Prevents the Code, With Guest Dr. Oscar Mitchell

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154: Physiology-Guided Sepsis Resuscitation: ANDROMEDA-SHOCK 2, Dynamic Fluid Responsiveness, and SEP-1 with Guest Jaclyn Bond

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153: Remix: Managing Crashing Pulmonary Embolism Patients

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152: "Don't Touch That Button!" Respiratory Wisdom, Myth Busting, and Everything Respiratory Therapists Wish Nurses Knew About Ventilation With Guest, Melody Bishop RT

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151: Caring Close to Home: How Point-of-Care EEG and Community Innovation Are Changing ICU Care

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150: Sepsis-Induced Cardiomyopathy with Dr. Mahmoud Ibrahim MD

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149: Inside the New 2025 AHA Resuscitation Guidelines: What’s New, What’s Controversial, and Why It Matters with Dr. Ashish Panchal, MD

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148: Differentiating Pulmonary Hypertension vs Dilated Cardiomyopathy with Natalie RN

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147: Recognize, Decompress, Stabilize: Managing a Pneumothorax with Trauma Pete

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146: From Alveoli to Aftermath: The Science and Humanity of Pediatric Drowning Care with ER Nurse Amber

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145: Genetic Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy: Sarah and Leslie's Story

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144: Trauma Plus: Navigating Complex Trauma Care with Flight Nurse Gwenny

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143: Neonatal Cardiogenic Shock: What Every Pediatric Nurse Needs to Know with Pediatric ICU Nurse Natalie

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142: High Risk PCI for STEMI With Guests Sarah Vance and Caitlyn Nichols

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141: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Why Bigger is NOT Better!

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140: Resuscitation Then and Now: How Evidence Shapes Every Beat with Guest Dr. Ashish Panchal MD, PhD

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139: Gut Feelings & Great Saves: Nursing Wisdom with Dr. Vicki Good, DNP and Andrea Schmitt RN, Hosts of the Voices in Nursing Podcast

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138: Could Rapid Response Teams Be One of The Solutions to Reduce Nursing Burnout, Improve Nursing Retention, and Elevate Patient Safety? With Guest Jaclyn RN

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137: In Flight Medical Emergencies with Alex PhD, EMT-P

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136: Bridging the Gap Between Pre-Hospital and In-Hospital Patient Care with Flight Medic, Sam

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135: Ruptured Aortic Dissection With Guest Christian Guzman, APRN

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134: Ruptured Ectopic Pregnancy With Guest Shenell RN

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133: Transitioning from ED to Rapid Response with Aidan RN

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132: Living and Working as a Nurse With a LVAD (Left Ventricular Assist Device)

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131 REBOOT: TACO, TRALI, and All Things Blood Transfusion Reactions

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130:The Do's and Don'ts of Healthy Team Dynamics (Creating a Safe Culture With Your Team)

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129: Sickle Cell Crisis With Morgan RN

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128: Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures

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127: Status Epilepticus

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126: Hurricane Relief Nursing with Brooke RN

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125: COPD and Oxygen Delivery Modalities

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124: ETOH Withdrawal

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123: What Makes for a Great Resuscitationist?

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122: What is POTS and When Is It an Emergency? With Guest Dr. Alexis Cutchins

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121: Early Detection of AKI With Tom MSN, RN From Accuryn

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120: Medical Missions Nursing With Becca RN From Mercy Ships

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119: Spinal Cord Ischemia with Michelle Dedeo DNP, RN, CNS, ACCNS-AG, CCRN, CNRN, SCRN, TCRN

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118: Cardiac Tamponade With Brian McCain

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117: Pericarditis vs Myocardial Infarction

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116: "So You Want to Go Back to School?" with Guest Nicole Kupchik, Clinical Nurse Specialist

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115: Pediatric Empyema With Erik and Nykole, Critical Care Transport Nurses

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114: Serotonin Syndrome

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BONUS MYSTERY EPISODE

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113: How to be the BEST Nursing Preceptor EVER!

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112: Heat Stroke vs Heat Exhaustion

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111: Liver Failure Part 4: Hepatic Encephalopathy vs Alcohol Withdrawal

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110: Liver Failure Part 3: Hepatorenal Syndrome

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109: Liver Failure Part 2: Esophageal Varices

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108: Liver Failure Part 1: Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis

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107: Nurse Stories From NTI 2024

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106: Are Nursing Care Plans an Absolute Waste of Time? With Flight Nurse and Educator Nurse Gwenny

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105: So You Want to Go Back to School Part 2 With Guest Nurse Educator Patrick McMurray

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104: Obstructive Shock With Guests Bryan Boling and Brandon Oto From the Critical Care Scenarios Podcast

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103: Should Families Be Allowed to be Present During Resuscitation?

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102: SIADH vs DI With Guest Nick McGowan RN, MSN

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BONUS PodSwap: RSI Drugs with Nurse Mo From Straight A Nursing Podcast

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101: So You Wanna Go Back to School Part 1: Nurse Practitioner With Guest Dr. Sandra Pagenta DNP

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100: How to Still Love Being a Nurse After 20 Years in the Profession

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99: Hyponatremia: How Did It Happen and Why Is It So Challenging To Treat?

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98: "Broken Heart Syndrome" aka Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy

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97: Status Asthmaticus Part 2: Strategies to Manage the Crashing Asthmatic

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96: Nightmare Case: The Young Crashing Asthmatic Patient With Guest Brooklyn RN

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95: "That's a Weird Blood Pressure!": Recognizing and Interpreting Wide and Narrow Pulse Pressures

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94: How Valuable is the Shock Index?

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93: What the Heck is BRASH Syndrome?

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92: How to Rock Your Next Stroke Alert With Guest Dr. Eric Wilson RN, AGNP-C, DNP, NREMT-P

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91: Vasopressors and Inotropes 101

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90: Rhabdomyolysis

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89: MYSTERY EPISODE... What's Wrong With Joey?

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88: Autonomic Dysreflexia: The Who, What, Why, and How to Treat This Perplexing Diagnosis

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87: Navigating Goals of Care Discussions With Guest, Hospice Nurse AJ

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86: Making the Transition to the ICU With Guest Sarah Vance

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85: Just a Spoonful of Sugar Helps Your Patient's Prolapsed Rectum Go Down

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84: Urology Tips, Tricks, and Hacks... and When it's Time to Call the Urologist With Guest Dr. Shailen Sehgal

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83: How to Manage Snake Bites as a Nurse and as a Patient With Guest Sealy RN

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82: Sympathetic Crashing Acute Pulmonary Edema: That Time My Patient Went From Stable A-Fib RVR to Intubated in 30 Minutes!

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81: Mechanical Circulatory Support for Cardiogenic Shock With Guest Christian Guzman, APRN

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80: Medical Management of Cardiogenic Shock With Guest Christian Guzman APRN

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79: Heart Failure 101 with Guest Christian Guzman APRN

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78: Healthy vs Hostile: Recognizing the Nursing Red Flags and Green Flags of a Work Environment

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77: THE TRAUMA DIAMOND OF DEATH: 4 Treatment Priorities in Trauma Care With Guest Sarah Vance

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76: Trauma Breakdown: Beyond the Blood and Guts... A Complicated Case Study with Guest Sarah Vance RN

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75: Rigors and Other Super Scary Chemotherapy Reactions With Guest Montana, Rapid Response RN

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74: Pediatric Basilar Skull Fracture With Guest Casey BSN, RN, CCRN-CMC, CFRN, CTRN, CEN, TCRN, CPEN, CNRN, NRP

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73: Resuscitate Before You Intubate: How to NOT KILL YOUR PATIENT When You Intubate

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72: How Do You Know When it's Time to Intubate?

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71: Recognition and Treatment of Septic Shock With Guest Yesha APRN

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70: Stop Guessing When Fluid Resuscitating With Guest Corinne RN From FloPatch