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Emergency Medicine Cases

Ep 126 EM Drugs That Work and Drugs That Don’t – Part 1: Analgesics

Emergency Medicine Cases

Dr. Anton Helman

Science, Courses, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Education

4.7602 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast we discuss the key concepts in assessing drug efficacy trials, and provide you with a bottom line recommendation for the use of gabapentinoids, NSAIDs and acetaminophen for low back pain and radicular symptoms, topical NSAIDs and cyclobenzaprine for sprains and strains, caffeine as an adjunct analgesic, why we should never prescribe tramadol, dexamethasone for pharyngitis, calcium channel blockers for hemorrhoids and anal fissures, buscopan for abdominal pain and renal colic and why morphine might be a better analgesic choice than hydromorphone...

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's finally here. Well, actually not here. It's on the EMCases website. Yes, the EMCases quiz

0:08.0

vault is live. This is kind of the pot of the gold at the end of the EMCase's learning system

0:14.7

rainbow. What's EMCases learning system? Well, the best learning theory of the day suggests that space, repetitive,

0:22.6

multimodal learning, capped off with test enhanced learning, is the best way to permanently

0:29.0

etch info into your huge brain. So what does that mean? It means that your best chance of making

0:35.8

new knowledge stick is to actively listen to the podcast,

0:39.6

then a little while later read the Just for Nuggets emails and the written summary show notes,

0:44.4

then watch the rapid reviews video, and then take the quiz in the quiz vault.

0:52.1

So details of the quiz vault.

0:53.4

The quiz vault is 800 questions big now and will soon be a thousand and growing with each

0:59.5

new episode release.

1:01.5

You can access the quiz vault on the navigation bar in the EMKCases homepage or at the bottom

1:07.2

of any of the show notes on the website for a particular episode.

1:12.2

You only need to sign in once and then the quiz vault will track your scores compared to the community and keep track

1:17.3

of which questions you've answered. You can custom build a quiz with any number of questions you want

1:22.6

by medical category, like let's say you want to review pediatric EM before you do your pediatric EM

1:28.5

rotation, or if you work in a hospital that doesn't see Peds all that often, you need to brush up.

1:33.7

It's easy to custom build a quiz with just a couple of clicks that will include only pediatric questions.

1:39.8

If you need to brush up on trauma, same thing.

1:43.1

We've kept it simple and easy to use.

1:45.5

And of course, like all EM cases online offerings, it's 100% free.

1:50.4

But of course, we want it to be the best that it can be.

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