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CanadiEM aims to improve emergency care in Canada by building an online community of practice for healthcare practitioners and providing them with high quality, freely available educational resources. The CanadiEM Podcast brings you cutting edge clinical topics on the National Rounds Series and delves into the struggles that doctors face on the Physicians as Humans Series.

May 29, 2017

This episode covers Chapter 81 of Rosen’s Emergency Medicine. This one is mint! Heart failure is one of those must-know-about presentations, you WILL see this in the ED.

 

  1. Define
    1. Cardiac index
    2. Preload
    3. Afterload
  2. Describe:
    1. How compliance changes the relationship between end diastolic pressures and volume
    2. the...


May 25, 2017

This episode covers chapter 80 of Rosen's Emergency Medicine. All those juicy pearls about those funny little [black] boxes in your patients chest.

 

Chapter 80 – Implantable Cardiac Devices

 

  1. List 5 Indications for permanent pacing
    1. What are common Pacemaker types?
  2. Pacemaker nomenclature - what do the 5...


May 23, 2017

This episode covers Chapter 79 of Rosen’s Emergency Medicine.

All those funny squigly marks on the ECG confusing you? Us too. Here is some knowledge to help you out.

  1. What is the blood supply of the following parts of the conduction system: SA node, AV node
  2. What are the three pathophysiologic mechanisms...


May 18, 2017

Here is the follow-up to the mammoth ACS chapter. This one has some key factoids to put into your mind map / memory pallace / organic computer.

 

  1. List Sgarbossa criteria for AMI in pre-existing LBBB
  2. What is Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and how does it present?
  3. Describe the kinetics of cardiac biomarkers (Troponins and CK)


May 16, 2017

This episode covers Chapter 78 of Rosen's Emergency Medicine. Acute Coronary Syndromes... its a gooder.

Acute Coronary Syndromes Part A (Monday)

  1. Define Stable Angina, UA, AMI
  2. Describe the pathophysiology of AMI
  3. What are the components of prehospital management of AMI
  4. List population RFs for CAD.
    1. Do they matter in the...