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 3 Episode 36 - Antibiotics...Before Obtaining Cultures?! Blasphemy! Or Is It...?
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Ok folks, here's another episode that I must ask you to hang your dogmatic practices on the shelf before tuning in. If you can't do that, this episode may not be the one for you!
We will look at the history behind obtaining two sets of cultures (aerobic and anaerobic) on patients, why they have to come from different sites, and why we seem to cling desperately to this idea that ALL infection patients who need cultures absolutely MUST have them obtained before administration of antibiotics. Join me and we will look at the reasoning, discuss high-performing pre-hospital and hospital systems that are doing the opposite now, and why. Think you can sit through this one?
