If you work in a big city hospital, when there's an airway catastrophe, it's all hands on deck.

Sweating, you look up, and suddenly the help you called for are all there in a flash.

Everyone and their cousin shows up, and before long, the resuscitation bay feels a little too cozy.

Not so for yourologic emergencies. At 3 a.m. it's crickets. Whether it be priapism,

urinary incontinence, testicular torsion, or other rarer conditions, there's a good chance

your urologist is snoozing at least 30 minutes away. Fortunately for us, this means that as EM docs, we own the first

hour or so of management. And when it comes to that first hour, every minute counts. Today, we'll

be talking about these very emergencies. You may only see one or two of these every few years of

practice, but it's no reason

not to stay up to date. For our male audience, this might be a bit of a cringy episode, so

grab your On Dancetron and buckle up. We're headed below the belt.

Welcome to the Emergency Medicine Cases podcast with your host, Dr. Anton Hellman,

bringing you Canada's brightest minds in emergency medicine from EMC Studios in Toronto.

Now, there's a myriad of urologic emergencies from Fournier's Gangrene to penile fractured,

to nephrolithiasis to UTI, most of which have been covered extensively on EM cases before,

but there are three-time-sensitive emergencies that we're going to get deep into on the next

couple of podcasts, and they are priapism, urinary retention, and testicular torsion.

And we might throw in a few updates on kidney stones to boot.

And to help us along, we have an all-star EM clinician,

my friend and colleague from North York General and St. Michael's Hospitals in Toronto,

Dr. Natalie Wolpert.

Welcome, Dr. Wilportpert. Welcome, Dr.

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