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Episodes
158 episodes
Chapter 104 - Part E: Successful Resection, Dead Patient: The Thoracic Wall Reconstruction Trap
In this BoardsCast episode, we finish Tobias Chapter 104 — Thoracic Wall with the most brutal thoracic surgery outcome: Clean margins, defect closed. The patient still dies.This episode dismantles the reconstruction trap:
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Episode 158
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19:25
Chapter 104 - Part D: Flail Chest, Trauma, and the Stability Myth
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 104 — Thoracic Wall by dismantling the most dangerous trauma illusion in the ER:The flail segment looks like it’s killing the patient — but it usually isn’t.<...
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Season 1
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Episode 157
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18:32
Chapter 104 - Part C: Thoracotomy Is Controlled Trauma: The Access That Creates the Problem
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 104 — Thoracic Wall with the most important truth in thoracic surgery:The moment you open the chest, you create the physiology that can kill the patient.<...
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Season 1
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Episode 156
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18:30
Chapter 104 - Part B: You Don’t Kill the Chest - You Break the Pressure System
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 104 — Thoracic Wall with the hardest truth in thoracic trauma and thoracotomy recovery:You can break ribs and still breathe. But lose negative pressur...
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Season 1
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Episode 155
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19:31
Chapter 104 - Part A: The Thoracic Wall Is a Pump, Not a Barrier
In this BoardsCast episode, we begin Tobias Chapter 104 — Thoracic Walls by confronting the ultimate post-op trap:You closed the chest perfectly… and the patient still can’t breathe.That happens when yo...
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Season 1
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Episode 154
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19:31
Chapter 103 - Part E: Oxygen Failure: The 5 Mechanisms That Kill Your Patient
In this BoardsCast episode, we finish Tobias Chapter 103 — Lungs with the most terrifying clinical moment:You gave oxygen, you increased ventilation, and the patient is still hypoxemic. Now what? This epi...
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Season 1
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Episode 153
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17:19
Chapter 103 - Part D: Oxygen Doesn’t Deliver Itself
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 103 — Lungs with the trap that kills patients while the monitor looks “fine”:Perfect lungs. perfect PaO₂. perfect SpO₂…and the tissues are still suffocati...
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Season 1
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Episode 152
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20:21
Chapter 103 - Part C: Air Isn’t Enough: It Has to Meet Blood
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 103 — Lungs with the ultimate bedside frustration:You ventilated perfectly; the chest rises, the waveform looks great, and the oxygen is still low. T...
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Season 1
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Episode 151
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20:46
Chapter 103 - Part B: The Oxygen Problem Isn’t Airflow: Diffusion Mechanics
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 103 — Lungs by confronting the ICU trap everyone falls into:You crank FiO₂ to 100%, you increase ventilation, and the patient is still hypoxemic.Because you’re t...
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Season 1
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Episode 150
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21:00
Chapter 103 - Part A: The Lung Is Not a Pump - Ventilation Mechanics: Why Air Moves Without Being Pulled In
In this BoardsCast episode, we begin Tobias Chapter 103 — Lungs by destroying the most persistent illusion in anatomy:The lungs do not pull air in; there is no suction. The lung is not a pump. Air ...
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Season 1
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Episode 149
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19:15
Chapter 102 - Part E: Fixing the Airway: Stents, Surgery, and Tradeoffs
In this BoardsCast episode, we finish Tobias Chapter 102 — Trachea and Bronchi with the most important airway truth:You open the airway… and you create a new problem.This episode reframes “fixing” tracheal col...
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Season 1
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Episode 148
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19:28
Chapter 102 - Part D: Diagnosing a Moving Target: Imaging the Airway
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 102 — Trachea and Bronchi with the most frustrating clinic moment:The dog is coughing, struggling, even collapsing… And the chest radiographs look normal....
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Season 1
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Episode 147
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16:46
Chapter 102 - Part C: Tracheal Collapse: The Disease You Can Hear
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 102 — Trachea and Bronchi with the clinical sound you recognize before you even see the dog:that dry, honking “goose” cough.It sounds like irritati...
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Season 1
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Episode 146
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12:42
Chapter 102 - Part B: Pressure Changes Everything: Why Airways Collapse
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 102 — Trachea and Bronchi by solving the “impossible” airway riddle:The airway is open… there’s no mass… and it still collapses.That’s because airw...
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Season 1
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Episode 145
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17:37
Chapter 102 - Part A: The Trachea Is Not a Pipe: It’s a Dynamic Airway
In this BoardsCast episode, we begin Tobias Chapter 102 — Trachea and Bronchi by dismantling the most dangerous airway myth medical diagrams teach:The trachea is not rigid PVC; It’s a pressure-sensitiv...
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Season 1
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Episode 144
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15:40
Chapter 101 - Part E: Opening the Airway: Arytenoid Lateralization Surgery
In this BoardsCast episode, we finish Tobias Chapter 101 — Larynx with the harsh reality of laryngeal paralysis:You can’t fix the nerve; you can only fix the airway.Arytenoid lateralization (“tieback”) ...
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Season 1
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Episode 143
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14:55
Chapter 101 - Part D: Diagnosing the Airway Problem: Evaluating the Larynx.
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 101 — Larynx by deleting the most common diagnostic mistake in upper airway medicine:You cannot diagnose the airway by listening to it.Stridor is a...
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Season 1
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Episode 142
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20:00
Chapter 101 - Part C: When the Gate Won’t Open: Laryngeal Paralysis
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 101 — Larynx with one of the most terrifying presentations in small animal practice:The lungs are fine, the airway isn’t blocked, and the dog still can’t breathe.
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Season 1
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Episode 141
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17:25
Chapter 101 - Part B: The Muscles That Open the Airway: Laryngeal Mechanics
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 101 — Larynx by dismantling the most dangerous misconception in respiratory mechanics:The airway is not a passive tube, It’s a spring-loaded gate t...
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Season 1
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Episode 140
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20:54
Chapter 101 - Part A: The Larynx Is a Gate: The Three Jobs of the Airway Valve
In this BoardsCast episode, we begin Tobias Chapter 101 — Larynx with the scary clinical paradox: the nose is clear, the trachea is open, but the dog still can’t breathe.That’s because the problem isn’t...
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Season 1
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Episode 139
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23:06
Chapter 100 - Part E: The Airway Problem: Overlong Soft Palate & Brachycephalic Syndrome
In this BoardsCast episode, we finish Tobias Chapter 100 - Palate by reframing brachycephalic airway syndrome with the only honest model:This isn’t “noisy breathing.” It’s an animal forcefully pulling air against a p...
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Season 1
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Episode 138
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19:14
Chapter 100 - Part D: Closing the Gap: Principles of Palatal Reconstruction
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 100 - Palate with the ultimate palatal nightmare:You close the defect perfectly, and the sutures look perfect. Two weeks later, the hole is back.This epis...
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Season 1
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Episode 137
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13:47
Chapter 100 - Part C: Clefts and Oronasal Fistulas: When the Barrier Breaks
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 100 - Palate by reframing palatal disease with the only mental model that matters:This is not a feeding problem.It’s a barrier failure.When the pal...
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Season 1
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Episode 136
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17:36
Chapter 100 - Part B: Swallowing, Airflow, and the Soft Palate Machine
In this BoardsCast episode, we continue Tobias Chapter 100 - Palate with the mental model that makes soft palate pathology finally click:The soft palate is not a flap. It’s a valve.Every swallow is a routing d...
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Season 1
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Episode 135
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17:07
Chapter 100 - Part A: The Palate Is a Barrier: Why Separation Matters
In this BoardsCast episode, we begin Tobias Chapter 100 - Palate by reframing the palate the way the boards want you to think:The palate isn’t the roof of the mouth. It’s a separation mechanism that lets breat...
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Season 1
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Episode 134
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17:55