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
The Synapse Season 2 Episode 94 - The RSI Trial - Etomidate vs Ketamine...Again
It feels like Captain Sparrow and Captain Barbosa locked in eternal battle from the first Pirates movie...except it is Etomidate and Ketamine. The study just released purports that Etomidate is better than Ketamine again...but is it? Before we swap sides yet again in this tug-of-war, should we examine this more closely, and maybe also not fail to remember it's not about the induction agent all the time, but more about how we prepare the patient, resuscitate them, and meet DASH-1a metrics?
Which team are you on? Me? I'm on Team Good Clinician who thinks things through and chooses the appropriate med option for the appropriate situation!
