Sympathetic Crashing Acute Pulmonary Edema (SCAPE) be emcrit

Cliff Reid delivers another moving talk on when we should, and especially when we shouldn't stop when resuscitating.

The Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM): Jane Brody wrote an article, "What Comes After the Heimlich Maneuver" that ran in the NY Times and stirred up a ruckus on Twitter. This is a reasonable article on choking and details the limitations of the Heimlich maneuver.  Unfortunately, the article ends  instructing the layperson cric…

Can you take sick patient to CT scan?

Author suggests that blood may sometimes appear more echogenic than other types of fluid in pericardial effusions and tamponade.

Description of pre-hospital stroke unit, discussion of ultrasound for elevated ICP in the setting of ICH, and list of potential antidotes for certain NOACs.

Part I of an amazing talk by Dr. Emmanuel Rivers on Severe Sepsis, Septic Shock, and early goal directed therapy.

Walter Himmel and Scott Weingart discuss the controversial and evolving topic of fluids in sepsis and septic shock & post-intubation sedation and analgesia

A lecture from SMACC2013 on how not to kill the shocked patient when intubating EMCrit Blog - Emergency Department Critical Care by emcrit.

Ten minute screencast describing an expanded ABCs mnemonic for Resuscitation.