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The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine — 112 episodes
SGEM Xtra: Carl Heneghan – Legend of Evidence-Based Medicine
SGEM#517 : I Will Try to Fix You. Surgery or Not for Pediatric Displaced Medial Epicondyle Elbow Fractures
SGEM#516: A Whole Lotta Blood – Whole Blood Transfusion in the Prehospital Setting
SGEM#514: Every Time You Go Away (and survive alive for 90 days) – Is It Due To A Restricted Fluid Strategy with Early Vasopressors?
SGEM#512: When you go your way, and I Go Mine – Surgery or Antibiotics for Acute Appendicitis.
SGEM Xtra: Welcome to the Jungle of Disaster Medicine
SGEM#511: I’d Like To Treat, DKA with the SQuID Protocol
SGEM#510: Take this Broken Radius and just Cast It.
SGEM#509: I love the Java Jive & It Loves Me – Preventing Dementia with Coffee and Tea
SGEM #508: How Low Can You Go? Rethinking Lumbar Punctures in Well-Appearing Febrile Infants
SGEM#507: Till Everybody Got Delirious – Geriatric Patients in the Emergency Department
SGEM Xtra: You You You Oughta Know – GED 2.0 Guidelines
SGEM Xtra: This One Goes to 11 – ATLS 11th Edition
SGEM#506: Aww I’m Itchy…and I need a Second Generation Antihistamine
SGEM#505: Close Enough for (ARF) Acute Respiratory Failure (HFNO vs NIV)
SGEM Xtra: It’s My Life – DPhil in Oxford
SGEM Xtra: You say you want a revolution – well you know – Against the Grain: Defiant Giants Who Changed the World
SGEM#504: Home Where I Wanted to Go After Anaphylaxis
SGEM#503: Waiting is the Hardest Part – Factors Associated with ED LOS
SGEM#502: Playing with the Queen of Hearts – AI, Is It Very Smart (for ECG Interpretation)?
SGEM Xtra: Machines – Or Back to Human
SGEM#501: Here it Goes Again – Another Clinical Decision Rule for Febrile Infants 61-90 Days
SGEM#500: Don’t You Want Me – Etomidate or Ketamine for Induction of Critically Ill Patients
SGEM Xtra: Hit Me with Your Best Block – 2025 AHS ED Migraine Guidelines
SGEM#499: Under Pressure – To Start Antihypertensives in Hypertensive ED Patients at Discharge
SGEM#498: Andromeda – Cap Refill Time for Personalized Sepsis Treatment
SGEM#497: We Could be Heroes – Just with a Little Help from Batman
SGEM#496: Hangin’ Tough after a Nerve Block for Pediatric Femur Fractures
SGEM#495: Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies – Reporting of Noninferiority Margins on ClinicalTrials.gov.
SGEM#494: Another day for you and me in pain – Chronic Abdominal Pain and ED visits
SGEM#493: You Can’t Hold Me Down with Spinal Motion Restrictions
SGEM#492: Give Blood – To Anemic Patients with Acute Brain Injuries
SGEM Xtra: Talkin’ Bout a Revolution…Training Health Communicators
SGEM#491: Prevalence of violence against health care workers among agitated patients in an urban emergency department
SGEM#490: These (Removable) Boots are Made for Walking
SGEM#489: Smooth Muscle Relaxator – But does Magnesium Work for Renal Colic?
SGEM#487: Tell Me How I’m Supposed to Breathe with No Air? Nasal High Flow or Standard Care for Pediatric Intubation
SGEM#486: Call Me, on the Line – Telemental Health for Suicide Prevention
SGEM#485: I Want a New Drug – One Not Associated with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
SGEM Xtra: Incrementum 2026
SGEM Xtra: Tell Me Lies, Sweet Little Lies – FDA Approved & Ineffective
SGEM#484: The Warrior – Pharmacological Interventions for the Acute Treatment of Hyperkalemia
SGEM Xtra: Now and Forever – A League of Their Own (Women in EM)
SGEM#483: Electricity – TENS Units for Treating Back Pain
SGEM#482: Seize the Day with Ketamine and Midazolam for Pediatric Status Epilepticus
SGEM Xtra: Illusion – What you Don’t Know and Why it Matters
SGEM#481: Shot Through the Chart And You’re to Blame – But Can We Intervene?
SGEM#480: In the End It Doesn’t Even Matter: Oral Olanzapine or Diazepam for Pediatric Agitation
SGEM Xtra: Career Advice from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
SGEM #479: Light Em Up Up Up (CT) or Not for Pediatric Blunt Abdominal Trauma?
SGEM#478: If I Were a Man: Sex-Based Disparities in the Treatment of STIs
SGEM#477: I Can Feel It Coming In the Air Tonight…But By Which Pre-Oxygenation Strategy
SGEM Xtra: Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It – To Be an EM Doc
SGEM Xtra: Ten Lessons They Don’t Teach in Medical School (But Should)
SGEM#476: Cuts like a Knife or Antibiotics for Pediatric Appendicitis
SGEM#475: Break on Through to the Other Side – Management of Clinical Scaphoid Fractures
SGEM Xtra: Doctor, Doctor – Paging Dr. Robby
SGEM#474: Help! Which Clinical Decision Aid should I use to Risk Stratify Febrile Infants?
SGEM#473: Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind – Midazolam or Ketamine for Acute Agitation in the Pre-Hospital Setting
SGEM#472: Together In Electric Dreams – Or Is It Reality?
SGEM#471: Are ESI Levels Accurate for Triage of Pediatric Patients?
SGEM Xtra Zombie Idea: ED Crowding is Due to Non-Urgent Patients
SGEM Xtra: 5 Papers in 15 Minutes (Incrementum 2025)
SGEM Xtra: On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Citation Errors in the Biomedical Literature
SGEM #470: Here We Go Up Up Up or Lateral for Infant Lumbar Punctures
SGEM#469: You Take My Breath Away – D-dimer for Ruling out PE in High-Risk Patients
SGEM#468: Wide Open Monocytes – Using MDW to Diagnose Sepsis
SGEM Xtra: Rock, Robot Rock – AI for Clinical Research
SGEM #467: Send me on my way…without Cervical Spine Imaging
SGEM#466: I Love ROC-n-Roll…But Not When It’s Hacked
SGEM Xtra: This is My Fight Song – FeminEM 2.0
SGEM#465: Not A Second Time – Single Center RCTs Fail To Replicate In Multi-Center RCTs
SGEM Xtra: Think, About It – Ten Commandments for Teachers
SGEM#464: I Can Do It with A Broken Heart – Compassion for Patients with OUD
SGEM Xtra: The 12 Days of Christmas the SGEM Gave to Me
SGEM #463: Like the Legend of the Phoenix… Criteria for Sepsis
SGEM Xtra: If I Had A Million Dollars
SGEM#462: Spooky Scary Access – IV or IO for OHCA
SGEM#461: If You’re Appy and You Know It…Do You Need a Clinical Prediction Score?
SGEM#460: Why Do I Feel Like, Somebody’s Watching Me – CHARTWatch to Predict Clinical Deterioration
SGEM#459: Domo Arigato Misuta Roboto – Using AI to Assess the Quality of the Medical Literature
SGEM#458: Hurt So Good –Ketamine Can Make the Hurt so Good – If used as an Adjunct to Opioids for Acute Pain in the Emergency Department
SGEM#457: Inhale – Nebulized or IV Ketamine for Acute Pain?
SGEM #456: We are Young…but we can still Understand
SGEM#455: Harmony 5000 – Prehospital Detection of Large Vessel Occlusion Strokes
SGEM#454: I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight – Diagnostic Accuracy of D-Dimer for Acute Aortic Syndromes
SGEM#453: I Can’t Go For That – No, No Narcan for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests
SGEM#452: I’m Still Standing – After the Allergy Challenge
SGEM Xtra: I’m Just An Ordinary Average Guy – Dr. Mel Herbert
SGEM#451: I’ve Become So Numb – Serratus Anterior Plane Blocks for Rib Fractures
SGEM Xtra: The Final Countdown – To IncrEMentuM 2025
SGEM#450: Try Again – Andexanet for Factor Xa Inhibitor–Associated Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage
SGEM#449: Bad Boys What’cha Gonna Do – Patient Perceptions of Behavioral Flags in the ED
SGEM#448: More than A Feeling – Gestalt vs CDT for Predicting Sepsis
SGEM#447: Just What I Needed – Preoxygenation Prior To Intubation
SGEM#446: Finding Pneumo…nia in Febrile Infants
SGEM#445: Why Can’t We Be Friends – Conflict in Emergency Medicine
SGEM Xtra: When I’m 64 – Old Fashioned Doctors
SGEM#444: I Need Oxygen…But How Much Oxygen for Critically Ill Children
SGEM#443: Don’t Stop Me Now – REBOA for Hemorrhage Control in Trauma Patients?
SGEM#442: I’m on the Right Track Baby I Was Born This Way
SGEM#441: Searching Searching for the best Clinical Decision Rule to Detect Pediatric C-Spine Injury
SGEM#440: I’m Gonna Need Someone To Help Me – GRACE4 AUD and CHS Management in the ED
SGEM Xtra: Yeah, Might Be All that You Get – How Ted Lasso Made Us Better
SGEM #439: Go Ninja Go Ninja Go…Home without Replacing the Fingernail
SGEM#438: Bone, Bone, Bone, Tell Me What Ya Gonna Do – for IO Access Location?
SGEM#437: Don’t Be Fooled by the Meds I Got, I Still Need an ESP Block – For My Rib Fractures
SGEM#436: For the Longest Time – To Give TNK for an Acute Ischemic Stroke
SGEM #435: Don’t Stop Believing…A Vaccine can Work for RSV
SGEM#434: It’s (Un) Happy Hour Again – Mortality in Younger Patients with Alcohol-Related ED Attendances
SGEM#433: Breathe – Simple Aspiration vs. Drainage for Complete Pneumothorax
SGEM Xtra: The Matrix – Social Media for Knowledge Translation