This is EM Case's EM Quick Hits podcast, where our team of experts and educators bring

a clear, concise, and condensed, practice-changing knowledge on all those EM topics you

may not be totally comfortable with. Cases, the latest evidence, procedural tips and tricks, pitfalls to avoid and the key take

home points and references on the EM cases website.

Quick, let's get on with it.

Before we get started on the quick hits, the EM cases course in February 2021 will be a virtual

conference.

Now, the beauty of going virtual is that the small group roundtable discussions with your favorite EMCases guest experts are perfectly suited

for Zoom breakout rooms. This isn't going to be lecture-type videos one after the other.

Those are really hard to pay attention to virtually. This is going to be as

interactive as the in-person course that we've been doing for the last six years. Our ED program

at the University of Toronto has also developed this amazing online simulation setup, so we're

going to do group simulations virtually as well. And we've got a superlative lineup for you, including many

of the superstars that appear on EM Quickets, like Andrew Petrosoniac, Sarah Gray, and Justin

Morganstern, just to name a few. Okay, now on to the Quickets. So we had age-adjusted D-Dimer to

rule out PE, which works quite well.

Now we've got a new adjusted D-dimer.

This time, it's clinical pre-test probability adjusted D-dimer.

So for the best of Rebel E.M.

This month, my friend, Salim Rosey, is going to talk about how the recent PEG

ED study shows promise for adjusting the cutoff of D-Dimer according to your pretest probability.

Now, why is PEG promising?

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