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FOAMcast - An Emergency Medicine Podcast FOAMcast
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5.0 • 24 Ratings
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We believe in the educational merits of Free Open Access Medical education (FOAM), which includes podcasts, blogs, articles on PubMed Central, conferences streamed for free and more. As a result, we would like to encourage others to move beyond quoting podcasts and into the realm of tying “cutting edge” FOAM to the core content. We’ll provide some review and references for listeners to go read. Why, indeed, should we FOAM it alone when FOAM can inspire us to go, read, think, and be excellent?
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Steroids for Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
Recommendations for the use of steroids in community-acquired pneumonia have been mixed. This episode reviews a large multicenter randomized trial in the New England Journal of Medicine by Dequin et al on hydrocortisone for severe community-acquired pneumonia.
References/show notes: FOAMcast.org
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Lauren Westafer -
CLOVERS Trial: Restricted vs Liberal Fluids in Sepsis-Induced Hypotension
In this episode we review the CLOVERS trial, a randomized trial of early (first 24 hours) restrictive versus liberal fluids.
Show notes/references: FOAMcast.org
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Jeremy Faust + Lauren Westafer -
Management of Acute, Uncomplicated Diverticulitis
This episode reviews guideline recommendations and literature on the management of acute, uncomplicated diverticulitis - highlighting the recommendations to only prescribe antibiotics to select patients.
References/Show Notes: FOAMcast.org
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Lauren WEstafer -
The "Diamond of Death" in Trauma - Hypocalcemia
This episode reviews a shift from the "lethal triad" in trauma to the "diamond of death," exploring the role of calcium in hemostasis and critically ill patients. We review the literature that is available on hypocalcemia and trauma patients
References/show notes: FOAMcast.org
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Lauren Westafer -
A Cardiac Arrest Story: Patient Interview
This episode is a departure from the typical FOAMcast clinical content, we will be back with strictly clinical content soon.
In May 2022, I came across a fellow passenger and stranger in cardiac arrest in the airport. A small team of strangers, including an emergency medicine resident, Dr. Jason Tanner, and an emergency department technician, Angel, assembled to treat this passenger. Billy Frolick, a writer and our patient that day, shares his perspective on his case with us.
In addition, we highlight important clinical pearls, notably the importance of continuous chest compressions and early defibrillation. For more on not doing pulse checks, see this podcast: https://foamcast.org/2022/09/04/pulse-checks-during-cardiopulmonary-resuscitation/ .
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ACEP Heart Failure Clinical Policy & High Dose Nitrates
This episode covers the 2022 American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) clinical policy on acute heart failure syndromes with a special focus on high dose nitrates
References and Show Notes: FOAMcast.org
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Lauren Westafer
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Interesting, well presented and mostly relevant even in a difficult health care system - a difficult thing to achieve. Thank You
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Thank you editors for creating such a hepful podcasts series, I love it
Excellent podcast, excellent people
Having had the pleasure of singing karaoke with one half of FOAMcast at RCEM 2016, I have to say that they seem as intelligent and interesting as they seem on the podcast. A brilliant, very up to date podcast, with emphasis on spaced repetition!
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