Episodios

  • January 2024: Envenomation and Acute Vision Loss

    January 2024: Envenomation and Acute Vision Loss
    Jul 15 2024
    In the January 2024 episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss the consequences of envenomation and acute vision loss. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including persistent dysuria in an adolescent girl in Clinical Pediatrics, an unusual case of osteomyelitis in Critical Cases in Orthopedics and Trauma, tungsten carbide ring removal in The Critical Procedure, cellulitis and abscess in the emergency department in The LLSA Literature Review, and GI bleeding in The Critical Image.
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    49 m
  • April 2024: Pediatric Seat Belt Injuries and Diabetic Foot Infections

    April 2024: Pediatric Seat Belt Injuries and Diabetic Foot Infections
    Jul 9 2024
    In the April 2024 episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss pediatric seat belt injuries and diabetic foot infections. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including septic shock caused by a perforated appendix in Clinical Pediatrics, chronic cervical myelopathy following a fall in Orthopedics and Trauma, stopping intra-oral bleeding post dental extraction in The Critical Procedure, palliative care in The LLSA Literature Review, and sudden-onset leg pain in The Critical Image.
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    37 m
  • March 2024: Abdominal and Neck Stab Wounds and Human Sex Trafficking

    March 2024: Abdominal and Neck Stab Wounds and Human Sex Trafficking
    Jul 2 2024
    In the March 2024 episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss managing abdominal and neck stab wounds and identifying and assisting victims of human sex trafficking. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including pediatric rash post vaccination in Clinical Pediatrics, ultrasound-guided aspiration of a septic prosthetic knee joint in Orthopedics and Trauma, removal of magnets from the nares in The Critical Procedure, managing diabetic ketoacidosis in children in The LLSA Literature Review, and pediatric blunt abdominal trauma in The Critical Image.
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    43 m
  • February 2024: Pediatric Asthma and Vaccine-Preventable Illnesses

    February 2024: Pediatric Asthma and Vaccine-Preventable Illnesses
    Jun 28 2024
    In the February 2024 episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss the pediatric asthma and recognition and management of vaccine-preventable illnesses. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including the importance of a thorough family history in Clinical Pediatrics, chronic shoulder dislocation secondary to a seizure disorder in Orthopedics and Trauma, reduction of a distal interphalangeal joint dislocation in The Critical Procedure, preventing post-lumbar puncture headache in The LLSA Literature Review, and knee pain after a fall in The Critical Image.
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    52 m
  • December 2023: ABEM Continuing Certification and Hemoptysis

    December 2023: ABEM Continuing Certification and Hemoptysis
    Jun 18 2024
    In the December 2023 episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss ABEM continuing certification and the evaluation and management of hemoptysis. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including baking soda intoxication in Clinical Pediatrics, a multiligamentous knee injury in Critical Cases in Orthopedics and Trauma, cerumen removal in The Critical Procedure, managing opioid use disorder in The LLSA Literature Review, and acute flank pain in The Critical Image.
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    45 m
  • November 2023: Pediatric Head Injuries and Organisms Resistant to Antibiotics

    November 2023: Pediatric Head Injuries and Organisms Resistant to Antibiotics
    May 29 2024
    In the November 2023 episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss pediatric head injuries and organisms resistant to antibiotics. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including lung injuries from vaping in Clinical Pediatrics, a high-pressure injection injury in Critical Cases in Orthopedics and Trauma, anoscopy in The Critical Procedure, shoulder dislocations in The LLSA Literature Review, and a child with periorbital swelling in The Critical Image.
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    38 m
  • October 2023: Opportunistic Infections in HIV Patients and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

    October 2023: Opportunistic Infections in HIV Patients and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
    May 21 2024
    In the October episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss opportunistic infections in patients with HIV and presentations of pelvic inflammatory disease. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including a winged scapula in Clinical Pediatrics, a die-punch fracture of the distal radius in Critical Cases in Orthopedics and Trauma, manual reduction of paraphimosis in The Critical Procedure, early anticoagulant reversal after trauma in The LLSA Literature Review, and a critically ill patient in The Critical Image.
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    41 m
  • September 2023: Management of the Acutely Agitated Patient and Metabolic Acidosis

    September 2023: Management of the Acutely Agitated Patient and Metabolic Acidosis
    Apr 8 2024
    In the September episode of Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, Drs. Danya Khoujah and Wendy Chang discuss management of the acutely agitated patient and metabolic acidosis. As always, you’ll hear about the hot topics covered in CDEM’s regular features, including a feared complication of cystic fibrosis in Clinical Pediatrics, Morel-Lavallée lesions in Critical Cases in Orthopedics and Trauma, phimosis treatment in The Critical Procedure, headache presentations in the emergency department in The LLSA Literature Review, and a cyanotic infant in The Critical Image.
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    38 m