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SGEM#513: Everything is Awesome – Unless You Swallow A LEGO Head

Date: June 23, 2026 Reference: Tagg A, et al. Everything is awesome: Don’t forget the Lego. J Paediatr Child Health. 2019 We recorded this SGEM episod...

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SGEM#512: When you go your way, and I Go Mine – Surgery or Antibiotics for Acute Appendicitis.

Date: June 12, 2026 Guest Skeptic: Mr. Ross Fisher. Ross is a paediatric surgeon, presentation guru (P-Cubed), and long-time friend of the SGEM.  Refe...

SGEM Xtra: Welcome to the Jungle of Disaster Medicine

Date: April 21, 2026 Guest Skeptic: Lauren Openshaw is a medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Cla...

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SGEM#511: I’d Like To Treat, DKA with the SQuID Protocol

Date: May 20, 2026 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Matt McArthur is an ED Physician working primarily in Guelph and Kitchener with occasional rural locums in the s...

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SGEM#510: Take this Broken Radius and just Cast It.

Reference:  Perry DC, et al. Non-surgical casting versus surgical reduction for children with severely displaced distal radial fractures (the CRAFFT S...

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SGEM#509: I love the Java Jive & It Loves Me – Preventing Dementia with Coffee and Tea

Date: April 23, 2026  Guest Skeptic: Dr. Manrique Umaña McDermott is an attending physician specializing in Emergency Medicine based in San José, Cost...

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SGEM #508: How Low Can You Go? Rethinking Lumbar Punctures in Well-Appearing Febrile Infants

Reference: Burstein B, et al. Prediction of Bacteremia and Bacterial Meningitis Among Febrile Infants Aged 28 Days or Younger. JAMA. Published online...

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SGEM#507: Till Everybody Got Delirious – Geriatric Patients in the Emergency Department

Date: April 2, 2026   Reference: Lee et al. GRADE-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Emergency Department Delirium Risk Stratification, Screening,...

SGEM Xtra: You You You Outta Know – GED 2.0 Guidelines

Date: March 23, 2026 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Christina Shenvi is a board-certified emergency physician, educator, keynote speaker, coach, and academic lead...

SGEM Xtra: This One Goes to 11 – ATLS 11th Edition

Date: March 26, 2026 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Robert Leeper is a trauma surgeon at the London Health Sciences Centre and an ATLS instructor who has helped t...

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SGEM#506: Aww I’m Itchy…and I need a Second Generation Antihistamine

Reference: Wong KH, et al. Improving Use of Oral Antihistamines in a Children’s Hospital. Pediatrics. Feb 2026; Date: March 15, 2026 Guest Skeptic: Dr...

SGEM#505: Close Enough for (ARF) Acute Respiratory Failure (HFNO vs NIV)

Date: March 11, 2026 Reference: RENOVATE Investigators and the BRICNet Authors; High-Flow Nasal Oxygen vs Noninvasive Ventilation in Patients With Acu...

SGEM Xtra: It’s My Life – DPhil in Oxford

Date: March 5, 2026 Today, we’re not in the studio. We’re not in Canada. We’re not even in North America. We are in Oxford. And not just Oxford, we ar...

SGEM Xtra: You say you want a revolution – well you know – Against the Grain: Defiant Giants Who Changed the World

Date: February 26, 2026 Guest Skeptic: Terry O’Reilly is the host of the long-running and popular podcast Under the Influence. He is also an acclaimed...

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SGEM#504: Home Where I Wanted to Go After Anaphylaxis

Reference: . Timing of repeat epinephrine to inform paediatric anaphylaxis observation periods: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet Child & Adolescen...

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SGEM#503: Waiting is the Hardest Part – Factors Associated with ED LOS

Date: February 13, 2026 Reference: Lang et al. Factors associated with emergency department length of stay in Alberta: a study of patient-, visit-, an...

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SGEM#502: Playing with the Queen of Hearts – AI, Is It Very Smart (for ECG Interpretation)?

Date: January 3, 2026  Reference: Shroyer et al. Accuracy of cath lab activation decisions for STEMI-equivalent and mimic ECGs: Physicians vs. AI (Que...

SGEM Xtra: Machines – Or Back to Human

Date: January 6, 2026  Guest Skeptic: Darren McKee is an author and speaker. He has served as a senior policy advisor and policy analyst for over 17 y...