Welcome to Emergency Medicine Cases.com. I'm your host, Dr. Anton Hellman, bringing you Canada's brightest minds in emergency medicine from EMC Studios in Toronto.

On this month's episode number 30, emergency procedures, pearls and pitfalls, tips, and tricks, we have with us Dr. Jordan Schenkin and Dr. Jamie Blicker. Dr.

Chanken is an emergency physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center and assistant professor

at the University of Toronto. He's a master instructor with the Canadian Emergency

Ultrasound Society and an instructor of the Eddie and Eddie II ultrasound courses.

He's conducted and published original

research on training for ultrasound assisted procedures. Dr. Jamie Blicker is an emergency

physician at North York General and St. Michael's Hospitals in Toronto. He completed his emergency

medicine trading at the University of Manitoba and practiced in Cleveland before returning to Canada.

He's a recipient of multiple

teaching awards and has a special interest in critical care and emergency procedures. When it comes

to mastering any given procedure in emergency medicine, it requires about 50 attempts at that procedure

before you can perform it rapidly, maximize the chances of success, and minimize

the chance of complications. While many of us feel pretty confident about our knowledge base

for emergency medicine by the time we start to practice, there are few of us who have had the

opportunity to perform all the critical procedures we need to know on real patients more than 50 times.

In fact, leaders in emergency medicine education have been placing an increasing emphasis on the need for improved training in emergency procedures and maintaining competency.

Of course, EM cases doesn't provide you with that hands-on experience, but what we can provide for you is a mountain of tips

and tricks, pearls and pitfalls about procedures so that when you get out there and get your

hands dirty doing these procedures, you'll perform them with a new confidence and decrease the

chances of complications while hopefully improving the outcomes of your patients.

With that in mind, we'll be discussing the nuances of some of the commonly performed procedures as well as some procedures that are life-saving that we don't perform so often like

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