FOAMcastini - ACEP Monday

FOAMcast is bringing you pearls from conferences we attend and, first up, the American College of Emergency Physicians annual meeting, ACEP14.   Today's Pearls: Emergency Physicians are like economists (We're more probalisticians than diagnosticians). Cardiology pearls from Dr. Slovis - TTM to 36 Celsius post-arrest should be standard. Many people probably could benefit from caths after arrest, we're not sure exactly who at this point. Patients returning from West Africa with fever probably have a regular virus, maybe malaria, but probably not ebola. There's really not much use for glucagon in calcium channel blocker toxicity. Think supportive care, insulin-dextrose. ETCO2 - it doesn't equal PaCO2 and it depends on cardiac output and alveolar ventilation   For updates, follow #ACEP14   Thanks for listening, y'all! Jeremy Faust and Lauren Westafer