EMCrit Project

EMCrit Guest Post – In Defense of Dignity by Chris Hicks, MD

Chris Hicks weighs in on dignity

EMCrit 402 – Sea Change on Salt Water (More Rapid Sodium Normalization in Hyponatremia)? with KidneyBoy

For years, we have been going super slowly for chronic hyponatremia. But now, literature has raised the question of increased mortality from this slow strategy…

EMCrit 1:1 Nursing Podcast 002 – Post-Intubation Sedation (Pain, Agitation, & Delirium)

Good post-intubation sedation is the mark of resus nursing excellence

EMCrit Wee – Ketamine for Early Status Epilepticus Debate with First10EM

Should we be using ketamine sooner in status epilepticus–we debate the issue…

EMCrit 401 – Pediatric Tracheotomy / FONA with Cliff Reid [Primer Ep]

Pediatric front-of-neck-access is something we all dread to even think about. We might think we can retreat to the cognitive ease of needle based techniques, but they fail!! And if the kiddo is <8 y/o cric won't work–you need to know how to perform a pediatric tracheotomy

EMCrit RACC Lit Review – May 2025

All the lit goodness for May 2025

EMCrit 400 – Mind of the Resuscitationist

For EMCrit Episode 400, I do a Mind of the Resuscitationist Episode. We discuss a bunch of concepts that have been percolating through this resuscitationist’s mind. #MotR

EMCrit Wee – All Things Defibrillation Follow-Up Ep

Follow-up to our all things defibrillation episode–we discuss seemingly benign diagrams in the NEJM, VC vs. DSD, and recent ERC guidelines that seem like a big mistake…

PulmCrit Letter to the Editor: Things we do for no reason: Checking QTc on hospitalized adult patients before IV ondansetron administration

I’m writing a letter to the editor in response to a recent article in the Journal of Hospital Medicine. I’m posting it here rather than submitting it to the journal to avoid burying it behind a paywall (and because I have the attention span of an intensivist hopped up on lots of coffee). First, I […]