The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast
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 open to any and all Emergency Medicine and Critical Care healthcare providers both in and out-of-hospital. Every effort is made to put out as many various topics to cater to everyone's interests and levels. Leave your technician hat outside, put on your clinician hat, and join us!
**Disclosures:
1) This is a non-monetary podcast, created and edited for free for your enjoyment and learning purposes.
2) The opinions and information presented in these podcast episodes is based off of up-to-date research, the latest evidence-based-guidelines, and/or anecdotal experience/opinions of the author.
3) Under no circumstances does this podcast or the information presented within each episode serve as authorization to work outside your guidelines, protocols, or workplace rules otherwise. When in doubt, contact Medical Control for guidance.
The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast
Latest Episodes
The Synapse Season 4 Episode 5 - The Shock Indices
Shock is not just about BP. In fact, in adults in hemorrhagic shock, we typically need to lose at least 1.5L of blood before BP changes, which is stage III shock. In kids? That can vary but is much more on the occult side. You can be in shock w...
The Synapse Season 4 Episode 3 - Sodium Channel Blocker Toxicity Review
Sodium channel blockers can cause a host of nasty effects in the body, and the heart unfortunately can take the brunt of a lot of it. We will examine this in today's episode with what to look for, signs and symptoms, treatments, etc.
The Synapse Season 4 Episode 2 - The OXY-PICU Trial Said to do What??
For those who aren't aware, there really isn't much benefit to SpO2 >94%. We have talked about this ad nauseum in other episodes before. The AHA tells us 94-99% for an SpO2 range for various reasons. However a recently-released trial, the Ox...
The Synapse Season 4 Episode 1 - Bye-Bye, Orthostatics!
Welcome to Episode 1 of our 4th Season! I can't express how grateful I am for the continued support from around the world as this podcast continues to grow! We are now hosted on multiple streaming sites and have listeners regularly tuning in fr...
The Synapse Season 4 Episode 4 - Aortic Dissections and Rupture
This episode brings a review of the appropriate diagnostics and care for patients with aortic dissections and rupture as well as a review of the pathophysiology and classification types. Are you familiar with the newer HR and BP goals? Why is t...
