Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSGEM Xtra Zombie Idea: ED Crowding is Due to Non-Urgent Patients
Date: April 1, 2025 This is another SGEM Xtra. I was asked to give a public lecture for the Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health. The topic w…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
SGEM Xtra: 5 Papers in 15 Minutes (Incrementum 2025)
Date: March 23, 2025 I was honoured to be invited to speak at Incrementum 2025 in Mercia, Spain. Thank you to Paco, Carmen, and the Incrementum team …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
SGEM Xtra: On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Citation Errors in the Biomedical Literature
Date: February 22, 2025 Guest Skeptic: Nicholas Peoples, who is a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Nick’s career has …
10 months ago
SGEM #470: Here We Go Up Up Up or Lateral for Infant Lumbar Punctures
Reference: Pessano S, et al. Positioning for lumbar puncture in newborn infants. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. December 2023 Date: February 7, 2025 Gue…
10 months, 1 week ago
SGEM#469: You Take My Breath Away – D-dimer for Ruling out PE in High-Risk Patients
Reference: Bannelier et al. Failure rate of D-dimer testing in patients with high clinical probability of pulmonary embolism: Ancillary analysis of t…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
SGEM#468: Wide Open Monocytes – Using MDW to Diagnose Sepsis
Reference: Agnello et al. Monocyte distribution width (MDW) as a screening tool for early detecting sepsis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Cl…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
SGEM Xtra: Rock, Robot Rock – AI for Clinical Research
Date: February 11, 2025 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Ross Prager is an Intensivist at the London Health Sciences Centre and an adjunct professor at Western Uni…
11 months ago
SGEM #467: Send me on my way…without Cervical Spine Imaging
Reference: Leonard JC et al. PECARN prediction rule for cervical spine imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt trauma: …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
SGEM#466: I Love ROC-n-Roll…But Not When It’s Hacked
Date: January 9, 2025 Reference: White et al. Evidence of questionable research practices in clinical prediction models. BMC Med 2023 Guest Skeptic: …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
SGEM Xtra: This is My Fight Song – FeminEM 2.0
Date: January 7, 2025 Guest Skeptics: Dr. Dara Kass is an emergency medicine physician, public health leader, and advocate passionate about equity an…
11 months, 4 weeks ago