The Synapse (Memorial Hospital MaineHealth)
The Synapse is a Critical Care and Emergency Medicine podcast breaking down topics and case studies into simple easy-to-digest segments to help build paramedic, nurse, and other pre-hospital and hospital clinicians into more robust providers. This podcast is tailored to the staff of the Mount Washington Valley EMS Program and the Memorial Hospital, but is open to any and all Emergency Medicine and Critical Care healthcare providers both in and out-of-hospital. Leave your technician hat outside, put on your clinician hat, and join us!
Podcasting since 2024 • 101 episodes
The Synapse (Memorial Hospital MaineHealth)
Latest Episodes
The Synapse Season 2 Episode 28 - AVAPS...The Future of Smart NiPPV?
If you have been paying attention to mechanical ventilation in the past few years, you know there have been significant changes and improvements to the reliability and options, proprietary modes, etc. Some have been reliable, some not so much. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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The Synapse Season 2 Episode 27 - Fluid Choice in Hyperkalemic Resuscitation
Is NS better? What about LR? Plasmalyte? What does "better" actually mean? Should we instead focus on which one(s) might do more harm in the hyperkalemic patient? Can you take a guess? I will give you a hint...don't focus on the potassium conce...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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14:00
The Synapse Season 2 Episode 26 - Hypokalemia and Hypomagnesemia...When the K+ is Stubborn
If you have ever participated in potassium repletion before, you are probably aware that for every 10mEq of K+ we administer, we should expect the serum K+ lab value to increase by 0.1mEq/L. Well, what happens when we give K+, and lots of it, b...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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10:59
The Synapse Season 2 Episode 25 - Propranolol...as a Sedation Adjunct???
In today's world of medication shortages, particularly the seemingly near-constant eb-and-flow of sedative shortages, who would have thought that a beta-blocker like Propranolol might actually be useful in assisting with sedation and decreasing...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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10:31
The Synapse Season 2 Episode 24 - Challenging Concepts in Ventilation
We have all probably encountered the hypoxic patient who did not improve with oxygen. Why might that have been? Did you stop at that moment and consider which of the four types of hypoxia they may be suffering from? Or whether this was a ventil...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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