Episode 1: Introductions

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Episode 1: Introductions

FromThe Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care

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Mar 13, 2017

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Figured I'd start with a little about my self and why I'm doing this.
The reality is that I'm not sure.
More (better) sources of #foamed and another introduction to it:

Life in the Fast Lane.

Scott on Emcrit.

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Mar 13, 2017

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Remember that 2 am cric where no one knew what size ET tube you needed? How about that time you did an ED thoracotomy and no one knew what a vascular clamp was? This podcast is about how to avoid it while still having a good time doing some Kickass Medicine!

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Episode 12: Equilibrium in Chaos I :Handling A Noisy Resuscitation Room: This Episode addresses what you can do to communicate better during noisy and chaotic code blues, resuscitations and trauma codes where things just aren't going right. by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 1: Introductions: Figured I'd start with a little about my self and why I'm doing this. The reality is that I'm not sure. More (better) sources of #foamed and another introduction to it: Life in the Fast Lane. Scott on Emcrit. by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
8 min listen
Episode 9: Not All MTP's Are Equal .....: What is Massive Transfusion? What's in an MTP? When to Trigger? What's in the box? New trends and controversies. When to halt your MTP. Selected References: Early high ratio platelet transfusion in trauma resuscitation and its outcomes. Trauma r... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
29 min listen
Episode 14: ECMO in Trauma - Is it Really That Crazy?: Just a brief review of the literature. Key Questions. What populations? What are the risks? Heparin ? #trauma #ECMO #surgery #CRITICALcare #ICU #MEDED #FOAMED #Emergencymedicine #ECLS by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
19 min listen
Episode 5: Crico-thyrodotomy a Play by Play video: A play by play video of a scalpel finger bougie cric. As much as I'd like to take credit, original video was filmed by Reuben Strayer with patients consent. Simply mind blowing how much cognitive work goes into a surgical airway and the video i... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
21 min listen
Episode 10: Optimal ICU rounding: How good are you at rounding? How could you making it better? Whats in your ICU rounding checklist? My own checklist. Selected References: The JAMA paper. The Attitudes at Rounds paper. The exploirative discriptive paper. The two Cochrane Reviews: ht... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 27: COVID-19 PREP Setting up your Ward for Total Isolation while Keeping Workers Safe (COVID-19): With everything going on in the world we will be handling patients on the ward that COVID-19 positive. How do we do it? How do we set up "safe" strategies to prevent cross infection and healthcare worker infection? #FOAMED #COVID-19 #pandemic by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 13: Equilibrium in Chaos II: Training People to Embrace the Chaos (and get a poor mans resus simulator for $140): Second part of our review on communication during high stress, time sensitive codes. Focus is on Training the team and team dynamics as well as how to build a resus simulator for 140 dollars!!!!!! The last time we accepted the fact that every now ... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 2: Resus Room Blood Products: In my mind this is probably the first real episode of the podcast. Time and time again and see people pontificate over the amount of blood to give and whether it's being used for resuscitation or oxygen exchange or both and what cut off to use so I ... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 11: Field Intubation, in a car, on a plane , on the floor: Ever wondered how to set up for an intubation in low light? or in a car crash.? Maybe on an ambulance where you have to be seated ? This is todays topic. Intubation on the field. #Airway #intubation #icu #ems #fieldtransport #medic #criticalcare #eme... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 8: Steronotomy 101: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ED STERNOTOMY! BUT There are emergent sternotomies. and they are exteremly fulfilling. Just a short commentary on a cool video ! Chapter Mentioned. Pictures Referenced. Dr Tongmeesee by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 54: Professionalism, Peer Review and the #Medbikini Movement: Just some thoughts on the article published in Journal of Vascular Surgery https://www.jvascsurg.org/article/S0741-5214(19)32587-X/fulltext and what it means to be a professional really. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1769526/ ht... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
26 min listen
Episode 30: Covid -19 Intensive and Critical care Guidelines: Just some thoughts and a summary on the ICU and critical care guidelines outthere. #foamed #icu #criticalcare #resuscitation #covid19 by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
15 min listen
Episode 19: From Cave painting to AI. A short review of the Medical Chart: So this was inspired by a tough day at work where a resident just genuinely didn't feel the need for documentation. Short Journey from Hippocrates (who probably didn't write that oath) to modern drivers of documentation and AI. You can blame him if... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 16: Trauma in Pregnancy: Ever wondered what to do with a pregnant GSW? Burn? MVC? Risks? Fetal Monitoring? If it sounds overwhelming well tune in #foamed #obstetrics #trauma #icu #surgery #orthopedics #ER #emergencymedicine #pregnancy #neontology by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 18: Pediatric Series : Pediatric Trauma Injury Patterns and Kinematics: What is the most common missed injury? Whats the most common cause of mortality? Why are they so hard to intubate? All of these questions and more. #trauma #ICU #SURGERY #ER #Resuscitation #PALS #injury #criticalcare #foamed #meded #pediatrics #... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
31 min listen
Episode 28: COVID 19 PREP Intubation:White Belt Level to Blue Belt Level: So this is just a quick look at indications, strategies and considerations when needing to intubate. This isn't how to manage oxygenation or ventilation. Just the basics of intubating for a white belt to become a blue belt. #COVID-19 #FOAMED #MED... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
27 min listen
Episode 29: COVID-19 PREP : Hemodynamics, Shock and Monitoring : White Belt to Blue Belt Level: Basics of Hemodynamics Shock Sepsis Why Swans can be a problem. Vasopressor review. #FOAMED #MEDED #COVID-19 #Hemodynamics #ICU #criticalcare #ER #resuscitation by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 17: ECMO in Pregnancy: Continuing on the theme from the last two episodes we're looking at how ECLS can apply in pregnant patients. by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 34: COVID 19 PREP So you have a ventilated patient on your ward and they are calling you at 2 am .... (White Belt to Blue Belt Level): So with all of the issues with offsite ventilation of COVID-19 patients around the world, I've had requests from my surgical colleagues to do a trouble shooting talk on ventilators. So here it goes....... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 24: COVID-19 PREP Strategies for the Correct Application of Personal Protective Equipment in COVID-19 Patients.: How to wear it? When to Wear it? What to Wear? How to make people DO IT!!!!!! (Requested on Reddit) #COVID-19 #Corona #ICU #PPE #FOAMED #MedED by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
22 min listen
Episode 21: Pediatric Series: Non-Acciddental Injury in Kids: Or Child Abuse and Neglect. How to spot it ? What causes it? What you can do the ER? What's next? #pediatrics #trauma #pediatricsurgery #ICU #criticalcare #Scan #childabuse #childprotection #emergencymedicine by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
19 min listen
Episode 15: COVID-19 PREP Preparing you ICU for a Pandemic (COVID-19): How to train people? Should split the patient among attendings? How make a temporary negative pressure isolation room and ward. How to deal with the stress involved? Preplanning. Also don't forget to check out the emcrit podcast dedicated to cov... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
38 min listen
Episode 20: Pediatric Series: Traumatic Brain Injuries and Drowning: When to do a CT brain? Screening for Drowning and when they can be cleared for discharge? Antibiotics? #drowning #neardrowning #TBI #concussion #pediatrics #pediatricsurgery #ER #trauma #surgery #pedsemerg #emergencymedicine #criticalcare #concuss... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
24 min listen
Episode 25: A guide to preparing M and M's and Journal Clubs: So is there any evidence for doing journal clubs or m and ms? Do you feel stressed out by them? Stay tuned for this episode on how to set your self up to win and learn. #foamed #grandrounds #communication by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
28 min listen
Episode 41:The Partial Responder Dilemma: Cross Sectional Imaging: I was just hoping to introduce some of the concepts that can help you predict which will declare themselves as stable and which will declare themselves unstable when it comes to partial responders. by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 37:COVID-19 PREP : Helping families of COVID-19 Positive Patients in the ICU: Again, I've been getting emails asking me about my thoughts on the subject. I actually asked some of my colleagues about it as well and realised that theres some food for thought here and is extremely challenging. ALSO AN APOLOGY, IN THE PREVIOUS... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 26: COVID 19 -PREP Setting up your OR for COVID-19 Patients: So as of today there is as of yet no consensus guideline for handling operating rooms with COVID patients. What follows is a smorgasbord of review articles, letters to the editor and practical points, to help prepare for that first COVID-19 case. ... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 50: The Hippocratic Oath What does it Really Mean?: Doctors and Oaths aren't new in medicine. But what does it really mean? What does it mean to you? Comment below PLEASE LIKE COMMENT AND SUBSCRIBE !!!! by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 36: COVID-19 PREP: Supporting patients and Survivors Mental Health Through the Pandemic: So social isolation, the stress of being in a hospital and the things that patietns see as a result of overcrowding are all part and parcel of the journey we are all going through world wide. Just a short talk with some thoughts on how to start to... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
19 min listen

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Episode 62: Crises of Confidence in Surgery.: You can have all the surgical training in the world but if you don't have confidence it counts for shit. It's kind of like having a wallet with a billion in bitcoin but not way of accessing it ....... And the literature proves it..... As always pleas... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 60: Should you allow your patient to leave Against Medical Advice?: Overview of the actual evidence for AMA discharges. How to do it? Is it legally protective? Is it ok for patients to do it? Sources https://www.jem-journal.com/article/S0736-4679(11)00540-3/abstract https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27623726/ https://p... by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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Episode 59:Peri-mortem Cesarians in Trauma Care: This episode is a quick rundown of some pitfalls and some tips on how to deal with an extremely challenging aspect of trauma/obstetric/ED and Critical care without hitting that panic button. by The Surge: Surgery. Trauma. Critical Care
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