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    • Keeping Up Week 38, 18 September 2009 
      Smith, Clay, MD, FACEP, FAAP; Heavrin, Ben (Vanderbilt Medical Center. Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine, 2009-12-10)
      Should we do the ABCs or focus more on compressions... the CBAs? What can you learn from >42,000 pediatric head injury patients? You have to know the latest decision rule for peds head CT. Also, can we safely omit ...
    • Keeping Up Week 50, 18 December 2009 
      Smith, Clay, MD, FACEP, FAAP; Johnston, Michael, MD, FAAP (Vanderbilt Medical Center. Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine, 2009-12-29)
      So begins the new paradigm... ten super-high quality articles in 15 minutes every other week. What is the evidence for high-flow oxygen for cluster headache? Should LMA size be based on actual or ideal body weight for big ...
    • Keeping Up Tox-Environmental 2008 
      Smith, Clay, MD, FACEP, FAAP; Williams, Saralyn; Fiechtl, Jim (Vanderbilt Medical Center. Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine, 2009-12-10)
      Dr. Saralyn Williams joins us this month for Toxicology and Environmental articles. She works as a board certified toxicologist and in the ED. Her enthusiasm for teaching and her laughter are infectious. Get ready to ...
    • Keeping Up Medicine 2008 
      Smith, Clay, MD, FACEP, FAAP; Wrenn, Keith D. 1950- (Vanderbilt Medical Center. Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine, 2009-12-10)
      Dr. Keith Wrenn brings his wit and hilarious skepticism to this month's podcast. He does not hesitate to point out any methodological flaws he finds! We discuss treatment of hypercalcemia that will challenge long held ...
    • Keeping Up Pulmonary-Critical Care 2008 
      Smith, Clay, MD, FACEP, FAAP; Heavrin, Ben (Vanderbilt Medical Center. Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine, 2009-12-09)
      CORTICUS, NASCENT, PEACE, Surviving Sepsis, PERC rule, CTA for PE, the etomidate debate...all these articles and more are on this month's podcast. These are absolutely critical articles for any ED doc who cares for ...
    • Keeping Up Pediatrics Part 2 2009 
      Smith, Clay, MD, FACEP, FAAP; McMorrow, Sheila P. (Vanderbilt Medical Center. Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine, 2009-12-10)
      We're back this month with more Peds EM articles. We cover articles on outpatient cardiac arrest outcomes, predicting ICU needs in bronchiolitis, morphine use in appendicitis, steroids for viral induced wheezing, meningitis ...
    • Keeping Up Pediatrics Part 1 2009 
      Smith, Clay, MD, FACEP, FAAP; McMorrow, Sheila P. (Vanderbilt Medical Center. Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine, 2009-12-10)
      What constitutes hypertension in kids? Does therapeutic hypothermia work for head injured kids? Will you cause cerebral edema by giving aggressive IV fluid to your peds patients in DKA? These are just a few of the ...
    • Keeping Up Cardiology Part 1 2008 
      Maron, David J.; Smith, Clay, MD, FACEP, FAAP (Vanderbilt Medical Center. Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine, 2009-12-09)
      Dr. David Maron is one of the lead authors of the recent COURAGE trial and is a full time ED-based cardiologist. He has been selected numerous times as one of America's Top Doctors. This podcast features David and will ...
    • Keeping Up LLSA 2007 
      Smith, Clay, MD, FACEP, FAAP; Fiechtl, Jim (Vanderbilt Medical Center. Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine, 2009-12-09)
      Here are the 19 articles for this year's LLSA 2007. In just less than 2 hours, you will get a summary of all the articles with an emphasis on the board relevance of each article and emphasis on how these articles might ...
    • Keeping Up Trauma 2008 
      Smith, Clay, MD, FACEP, FAAP; Fiechtl, Jim (Vanderbilt Medical Center. Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine, 2009-12-09)
      The top ten trauma articles from this year (2008) are here! In this month's podcast, we discuss radiation dose in trauma patients as they get multiple CT scans, use of steroids in c-spine trauma, the latest on zone 2 neck ...
    • Keeping Up Cardiology Part 2 2008 
      Smith, Clay, MD, FACEP, FAAP; Slovis, Corey M., 1949- (Vanderbilt Medical Center. Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine, 2009-12-10)
      Dr. Corey Slovis joins us for more Cardiology articles this month, and you are guaranteed to laugh! We cover articles dealing with troponin in heart failure, reading AMI in patients with left bundle branch block, the new ...
    • 2008 Winter Symposium - January 16, 2008 
      Jarquin-Valdivia, Adrian A.; Guillot, Stephen L. Jr.; Harrington, Joel F. (Joel Francis); Abu-Halimah, Ahmad; Smith, Joseph A., 1949-; Weiss, Bahr (Vanderbilt University. Institute for Global Health, 2008-08-20)
    • 2008 Spring Symposium on Global Health Research - April 2, 2008 
      Kalams, Spyros; Sterling, Timothy R.; McGowan, Catherine; Merin, Lawrence M.; Ukoli, Flora A.M. (Vanderbilt University. Institute for Global Health, 2008-08-20)
    • Tennessee-China Rural Health Exchange Program Symposium (English & Chinese) - May 30, 2008 
      Zhao, Genming; Wang, Lusheng; Chen, Jiaying; Fan, Bing (Vanderbilt University. Institute for Global Health, 2008-08-20)
    • Do not give steroids for post extubation stridor 
      Guy, Jeffrey S. (Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-05-13)
      What is the role of giving an adult steroids to prevent stridor or reintubation following extubation. This epidose looks at the data.
    • Glutamine In Critical Illness: what's all the fuss about? 
      Guy, Jeffrey S. (Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-05-17)
      All surgical residents know that glutamine is the amino acid known as the fuel for the gut. But what is all the fuss about? The episode will look at the data on glutamine. Does glutamine improve outcomes, and if so and ...
    • Intraosseous Vascular Access: not just for the kids anymore 
      Guy, Jeffrey S. (Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-05-28)
      Intraosseous vascular access was was developed for use in adult trauma patients over 80 years ago. Only recently has this technique regained popularity for rapid and safe access to the vascular space in patients in extremis.
    • Metabolism: Starvation versus Stress 
      Guy, Jeffrey S. (Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-06-19)
      Not feeding an injured or ill patient is not that same as a normal individual who is fasting. A pound of weight loss in the stress patient is significantly different than a pound of weight loss in someone on a diet. A ...
    • Metabolic Acidosis in the ICU 
      Guy, Jeffrey S. (Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-07-25)
      A common problem in the ill or injured patient is a metabolic acidosis. In this episode we will review the common etiology of a metabolic acidosis as well as some lesser known causes.
    • Burns: Fluid Creep in Burn Resuscitation 
      Guy, Jeffrey S. (Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-06-07)
      Excessive fluid resuscitations lead to horrible complications such as abdominal compartment syndrome. This article takes a critical look and challanges many of our practices in fluid resuscitation of burn patients.