Ep 174 Is Less More? Saving EM and Traumatic Pneumothorax – Highlights from CAEP 2022

Emergency Medicine Cases

Dr. Anton Helman

Education, Health & Fitness, Courses, Medicine, Science

4.7 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Emergency Medicine has undergone many changes over the last couple of decades and especially during the COVID pandemic. Most of these changes have been very positive, but increasing volumes, staff shortages, aging populations, increasing breadth of responsibilities and better access to more imaging have made some of us question how we should define the scope of our practices. In this main episode podcast, highlights from CAEP 2022 conference, Anton discusses the article 'Saving EM: Is Less More?' with Dr. Paul Atkinson and Dr. Grant Innes and offer some solutions to this current state of affairs in EM. In another CAEP highlight, trauma team leader Dr. Mathieu Toulouse delivers the latest on management of traumatic pneumothorax. He answers such questions as: Do all patients with a traumatic pneumothorax require tube thoracostomy? How do CXR and CT differ in determining which patients require a chest tube? Do all patients receiving positive pressure ventilation require a chest tube for their traumatic pneumothorax? Does the presence of hemothorax necessitate placement of a chest tube? Are 14Fr pigtail catheters adequate for all traumatic pneumothoraces? and many more...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Emergency Medicine Cases podcast.
0:05.0	I'm your host, Dr. Anton Hellman, bringing you Canada's brightest minds in emergency medicine from EMC studios in Toronto.
0:13.9	EM cases is part of SREMI, Schwartz-Risman Emergency Medicine Institute, the nonprofit organization dedicated to improving EM care through research
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0:25.9	medical condition, nor should they be used as a substitute for medical advice from qualified practicing
0:28.1	physician. Tickets for online virtual EM cases summit this coming February go on sale
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0:39.5	We've confirmed amazing speakers, people from all over the EM landscape, Scott Weingart
0:45.1	to Sarah Reed, Tarlin Hediety to David Carr, David Ehrlich to Aaron Seyal, Michelle Clayman
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1:31.5	On to the meat of the podcast.
1:33.4	So this is a special main episode podcast in that it features highlights from this year's Cape Conference.
1:38.7	That's the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Conference in Quebec City.
1:43.7	Cape is Canada's equivalent of ASEP for all you U.S. listeners out there.
1:49.4	We already featured Brett Burstein and Gary Joubert on Fbrile Infants from Cape on the last
1:55.6	main episode.
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