REBEL MIND Ep2: Performance Under Pressure - What Medicine Can Learn from Elite Teams
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🗝️Key Points 🎯Partnership Focus: New collaboration with Arena Labs aimed at enhancing healthcare worker wellness. 🏃🏽♂️➡️Personalized Coaching: Tools and coaching programs designed for stress management and performance improvement. 📊Data-Driven Insights: Utilizing wearable sensor data to tackle burnout effectively. 🌄Broad Impact: Offers a unique opportunity to contribute to large-scale healthcare improvements. 📝 Introduction Welcome back to Rebel MIND, the podcast series where we dive into crucial aspects of healthcare worker well-being. In this episode,...
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REBEL Core Cast 148.0–Demystifying Non-Invasive Ventilation & HiFlow
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🗝️ Key Points 💨 NIV = Support without a tube: CPAP, BiPAP, and HFNC improve oxygenation and reduce the work of breathing. 🫁 CPAP = Continuous pressure: Best for hypoxemic patients (e.g., pulmonary edema, OSA). ⚖️ BiPAP = Two pressures (IPAP/EPAP): Great for hypercapnic failure (e.g., COPD, obesity hypoventilation). 🌬️ HFNC = Heated, humidified high flow: Reduces effort, improves comfort, and enhances oxygen delivery. 🩺 Supportive, not definitive: NIV stabilizes patients while the underlying cause is treated. 📝 Introduction Non-invasive ventilation (NIV)...
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REBEL MIND: The Dunning Kruger Effect - Why Looking Inward Improves Patient Care
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Welcome to REBEL MIND—Mastering Internal Negativity during Difficulty. In this series, we turn the same critical lens REBEL EM uses for literature inward—into mindset, leadership, and psychological safety—so we can deliver better care outward to patients and teams. In this episode and blog post, host Mark Ramzy and co-host Kim Bambach (Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University) explore a deceptively simple question: How accurately can we assess our own performance? The answer hinges on a classic cognitive bias that touches all of us in emergency...
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REBEL Core Cast 147.0–Ventilators Part 5: Key Mechanical Ventilator Pressures & Definitions Made Simple
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📝 Introduction Learn how to interpret PIP, Pplat, PEEP, and driving pressure on the ventilator. Understand lung compliance, VILI prevention, and ARDS ventilation strategies. 🗝️ Key Points 💨 Peak vs. Plateau Pressures: PIP reflects total airway resistance and compliance, while Pplat isolates alveolar compliance—elevations in both suggest decreased lung compliance (e.g., ARDS, pulmonary edema, pneumothorax). 🧱 PEEP Protects Alveoli: Maintains alveolar recruitment and prevents collapse; typical range 5–8 cmH₂O, but higher levels may benefit moderate–severe ARDS. ⚙️...
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REBEL Core Cast 146.0–Ventilators Part 4: Setting up the Ventilator
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Ventilator management can feel overwhelming—there are so many knobs to turn, numbers to watch, and changes to make. But before adjusting any settings, it’s crucial to understand why the patient is in distress in the first place, because the right strategy depends on the underlying cause. In this episode, we’ll walk through three different cases to see how the approach changes depending on the problem at hand.
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REBEL Core Cast: Pediatric Respiratory Emergencies: Beyond Viral Season
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Key Tips for Managing Pediatric Respiratory Cases In this episode of the Rebel Core Content Podcast, host Swami and PEM specialist Dr. Elise Perlman dive into critical insights for managing respiratory cases in infants, babies, and toddlers during the viral season. They discuss important pearls such as assessing patients from the doorway, localizing respiratory sounds, and differentiating between upper and lower airway obstructions. They also elaborate on managing common conditions like bronchiolitis, asthma exacerbations, and identifying zebras among routine viral cases. The episode provides...
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REBEL CAST – IncrEMentuM26 Speaker Spotlight : Drs. Tarlan Hedayati, Jess Mason and Simon Carley
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📝Introduction Welcome to this special edition of the REBEL Cast, where we unravel key highlights and educational insights from the IncrEMentuM Conference in Spain. This event is a cornerstone for advancing emergency medicine education, drawing esteemed speakers and participants from around the globe. As emergency medicine gains traction in Spain, this conference has become an essential platform for knowledge exchange and professional growth. Today, host Dr. Mark Ramzy shines a spotlight on three distinguished speakers: Dr. Jess Mason, Dr. Tarlan Hedayati, and Dr. Simon Carley, who...
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REBEL Core Cast 145: Understanding QTc Prolongation: Causes, Risks, and Management
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The QT interval is a vital part of ECG interpretation, reflecting the heart’s electrical recovery after each beat. When prolonged, it can set the stage for torsades de pointes. Understanding how to measure and correct the QT interval, identify high-risk medications, and act quickly when TdP occurs is essential for every clinician. This guide walks you through the physiology, interpretation, common causes, and emergency management of QTc prolongation to keep your patients safe.
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REBEL Core Cast 144: Tourniquet Tips
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Introduction In this episode of the Rebel Core Content podcast, Swami provides crucial tips on using tourniquets. Highlighting the significance of these life and limb-saving devices, the discussion focuses on the optimal placement of tourniquets, emphasizing placing them 2-3 inches (5-6 cm) above the bleeding source and avoiding joints. Swami also advises on the correct way to tighten the tourniquet using the Velcro strap first, followed by minimal use of the windless. The importance of noting the application time to avoid prolonged arterial flow interruption is also discussed. The episode...
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REBEL CAST – IncrEMentuM26 Speaker Spotlight : George Willis and Mark Ramzy
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📝Introduction: In this exciting episode of REBEL Cast, host Dr. Mark Ramzy joins forces with renowned educator and speaker, Dr. George Willis. Broadcasting straight from the ACEP 25 in Salt Lake City, the duo talk about bringing together the international emergency medicine community, as they reflect on their experiences at the Increment Conference in Murcia, Spain, and preview the upcoming event this spring. 🤔What's IncrEMentuM? A new conference and a pivotal gathering for emergency medicine professionals worldwide, has become an essential platform for education, collaboration, and...
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