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.

In this part two of the highlights from this year's University of Toronto, update in EM conference from Whistler, BC. We have Dr. David

Carr of Carr's cases fame. We'll talk about five things you need to know about the use and

misuse of antibiotics. Then we'll have Dr. Chris Hicks, you might remember from episode 11 on cognitive

decision making and medical error, as well as episode 62 on diagnostic decision

making, talking about post-arrest cath lab activation and chest pain rule out algorithms.

Now, before we get into that, just a couple of announcements. First, Northwick General

Hospital's Emergency Medicine Update conference is just a couple of weeks away, and there's still

time to register. It'll have Weingart, Matu, Himmel, Swadron, Hicks, Carr, and many more EMCases

guest experts, as well as a wide variety of hands-on procedural workshops, which are awesome.

Not only that, but I'm super psyched to announce that after a year of hard work from

the EM cases team, we're releasing the first of our series of interactive e-books entitled

EMCases Digest on May 7th, on the first day of the EM Update conference for free.

So my team's been working really hard. Terran Lloyd, Michelle Yee, Neuren

Argentaru, Michelle Killian, Michael Meish, Claire Heslop, and Kirokirak Graywall to make this book

for free for you. This one covers all the podcasts related to trauma and MSK. So if you're at the

conference, please come by the EMCases table and we can help

you download a free copy. I want to thank not only the team, but also Michelle Lynn from

Academic Life and Emergency Medicine for writing the forward for the series and SREMI for their

support that allowed us to hire a professional digital designer so that the books would have an

awesome user experience for you.

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