Yes, this is E.MK's best case ever mini podcast series, and I'm your host, Dr. Anton Hellman.

We're live from Smack Dublin with one of the creators of Smack, Dr. Chris Nixon himself, and for the first time we have him on

EM cases. You know, normally we have Canada's brightest minds in emergency medicine, but Chris,

I understand you've really had nothing to do with Canada your whole life. Tell us a little

bit about your background. So, well, first of all,

Anton, it's great to be talking to EM cases. I've followed it for a long time. I remember years ago

we met essentials as delegates, and so it's been fantastic to see how it's evolved, and I guess

we've run these parallel paths into free open access medical education.

From me, I'm a New Zealander. Let me just reiterate that. I'm a New Zealander, but I live in Australia

and I'm in Melbourne, trained in emergency medicine and intensive care. I currently work as an

intensivist at the Alfred in Melbourne.

Awesome. So let's cut to the chase. Chris, tell us your best case ever.

One that does stick in my mind was a case where we were called to see if we should put a patient on ECMO.

Now, I understand that in your neck of the woods, Anton, the idea of crashing,

hypotensive, shocky patients onto ECMO isn't often an option.

That's right.

But this one, I think, has lots of lessons in it.

So we got a call about a bloke, that's a man this one i think has lots of lessons in it so uh so we got a call about a

a bloke that's a man who's uh it was in his mid 50s uh from another hospital and uh what

had happened was that he just had a hip operation and within 24 hours of that became very

unwell difficulty breathing hypot, you know the story.

It's a PE.

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