The SimKit Podcast

Feb 17 2025 39 ep. 31 mins 1

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A Medical Education company focused on bringing procedural training to the clinician. Our free podcast covers a breadth of topics in Emergency Medicine.

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Piece of Cake: DKA/HHS Update Part II with George Willis

Feb 17 2025 57 mins

The American Diabetes Association released a consensus report in 2024 on the management of the hyperglycemic crises: DKA and HHS. Our goal is to give you some insight into the latest recommendations on the management of these critical presentations using this report and Dr. George Willis as our guide! In Part II, we continue our deep dive into with a focus on diagnostic criteria u

Piece of Cake: DKA/HHS Update Part I with Dr. George Willis

Feb 02 2025 44 mins

The American Diabetes Association released a consensus report in 2024 on the management of the hyperglycemic crises: DKA and HHS. Our goal is to give you some insight into the latest recommendations on the management of these critical presentations using this report and Dr. George Willis as our guide! In Part I, we discuss epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical presentation o

The Cost of Boarding w Dr. Schreyer & Dr. Canellas

Jan 21 2025 41 mins

Boarding plagues Emergency Departments the country (world?) over. It negatively impacts patient satisfaction, staff wellbeing, patient safety, among others. But what does it cost the hospital/healthcare system? A recent article in Annals tries to answer that question. We sat down with first author and our friendly neighborhood Operations specialist to look at this article and the

The Rusty Scalpel's Edge- keeping your skills in rare procedures

Dec 22 2024 18 mins

Are you dangerous when it comes to preforming rare procedures like cric, transvenous pacing, and Blakemore tube placement? Do you have a means to keep the rust away? In this podcast we review an article on mental practice and how we all should be practicing to keep ourselves sharp. Click HERE for our detailed shownotes! (https://simkit.co/podcast/)

It's all about Conduction: Calcium's Role in Hyperkalemia

Dec 08 2024 8 mins

The classic teaching is that calcium's role in hyperkalemia is that of membrane stabilization. However, what if what we were taught was wrong all along? In this quick-hit, we will discuss the role of calcium in hyperkalemia and a new hypothesis that suggests it may all be about cardiac conduction velocity. Click HERE for our detailed shownotes! (https://simkit.co/podcast/)

Stroking Out in the Community with Evie Marcolini

Dec 01 2024 61 mins

Managing strokes in the modern era is challenging (lytics, EVT, timestamps!). Doing so in a community hospital- far from the ivory tower endovascular suite and neurology ICU- can be even harder. We sat down with the very smart Dr. Evie Marcolini to talk managing these complex patients in these community settings. Click HERE for our detailed shownotes! (https://simkit.co/podcast/)

Under Pressure

Nov 17 2024 39 mins

Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) is a clinical condition that we occasionally encounter in the emergency department–and should always have on our differential for patients presenting with neurological complaints. In this episode, we break down the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of PRES, using a clinical case to anchor our discussion. Click HERE for

Fever Time!- Biomarkers and Clinical Decision Rules performance by length of infant fever

Nov 04 2024 17 mins

Fever in the infant, particularly those less that 60 days old, presents a diagnostic challenge. Many biomarkers and clinical decision aids have been developed to help the practicing clinician decide who is at risk for a serious or invasive bacterial infection. But what if the fever has only been present a short while? How do these biomarkers and decision aids work very early in the

Sip On This: GRACE-4

Aug 29 2024 34 mins

Raise a glass to the GRACE-4 guidelines. These are Guidelines for Reasonable and Appropriate Care in the Emergency Department (GRACE). The goal of GRACE is to focus on conditions for which there is wide variation in treatment, for which ED-focused clinical practice guidelines do not already exist, and for which patients have frequent ED revisits. Click HERE for our detailed show

The Twin Kiss of Death- Boarding and Crowding in the ED and How to Prevent It with Dr. Kraftin Schreyer

Jul 28 2024 32 mins

In this podcast we review both boarding and crowding, the twin kiss of death for an Emergency Department, with Dr. Kraftin Schreyer, an Emergency Medicine physician and ED Administrative Fellowship Director. We discuss boarding and how it can be prevented through surge planning, C-suite buy-in, and cooperation between the in-patient and ED. We then go on to talk about crowding and