Welcome to the Emergency Medicine Cases Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Anton Hellman, bringing you Canada's brightest minds in emergency medicine from EMC Studios in Toronto.

All right, here we go.

I've been fortunate enough to help out with organizing the University of Toronto's update in EM conference in Whistler for the last five years now, and I must say that I think this year's conference was the best one yet.

There were so many great talks that it was really difficult for me to choose which parts of which talks to use for the podcast, but I ended up deciding on a few practice changing,

or if not practice changing, then really important topics that I think we ought to know about.

This episode will be divided into two parts. In the first part, we'll hear from Dr. Paul Hannam,

my friend and old boss as the chief of the ED at Toronto East General, and ready for this?

The captain of the only two-man sailboat for Canada in the 1996 Olympics.

I mean, how cool is that?

Anyhow, I thought I knew everything there was to know about intra-osius access, but alas,

Paul taught me a whole new slew of pearls that he's going to share with you on this podcast.

Next up, you'll hear from the head of the divisions of EM at the University of Toronto and the chief of the ED at the University Health Network Hospitals and Nil Chopra,

who you might remember from the EM case's headache podcast from a few years back.

He'll set us straight with CT decision-making when it comes to

IV contrast nephropathy. And his friend and colleague, who you all know by now Dr. Dave Carr,

will give us five key things we need to know about antibiotics. In part two, we'll hear from

Dr. Joel Yaffe on his favorite EM literature from 2014 and Dr. Chris Hicks on two cardiology

game changers when it comes to low risk chest pain and post-resuscitation care. All right, let's get

going with Paul Hannam on Ileine Pearls. My interest in intra-ausious access started about two years ago after an incident where I was called up to the ICU to come and remove an I.O. line that we had placed down about an hour ago.

And as I went up, the nurses, they were great. They were taking great care of the patient.

But what struck me about the situation was they actually said that they had delayed transfer from the emergency department. In fact,

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