Take a deeper dive into our peer-reviewed emergency medicine content with the EMplify podcast. Join hosts Sam Ashoo, MD and T.R. Eckler, MD for educational, conversational reviews of current evidence guaranteed to help you make your best clinical decisions. Each high-yield episode gives you practical, time-tested guidance from practicing emergency medicine clinicians and subject-matter experts. Listen and learn!
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Take a deeper dive into our peer-reviewed emergency medicine content with the EMplify podcast. Join hosts Sam Ashoo, MD and T.R. Eckler, MD for educational, conversational reviews of current evidence guaranteed to help you make your best clinical decisions. Each high-yield episode gives you practical, time-tested guidance from practicing emergency medicine clinicians and subject-matter experts. Listen and learn!
In this episode, Sam Ashoo, MD and T.R. Eckler, MD discuss the May 2025 Emergency Medicine Practice article, Emergency Department Management of Patients With Complications of Chronic Neurologic Disease: Parkinson Disease, Myasthenia Gravis, and Multiple Sclerosis Parkinson's Disease* Importance of maintaining medication schedule for Parkinson's patients* Strategies for ensuring patients receive their medications promptly* Overview of Carbidopa Levodopa's mechanism of actionMyasthenia Gravis* Description of the disease mechanism* Importance of assessing respiratory function* Diagnostic alternatives like the negative inspiratory force test and counting test* Discussion on appropriate emergency department actions and treatments including steroids, plasmapheresis, and IVIGMultiple Sclerosis* Description of the disease mechanism* Description of the typical patient demographic* Discussion on the varied presentation of MS* Treatment strategies including high-dose steroids and BaclofenEmergency Medicine Residents, get your free subscription by writing resident@ebmedicine.net
EMplify by EB Medicine
Take a deeper dive into our peer-reviewed emergency medicine content with the EMplify podcast. Join hosts Sam Ashoo, MD and T.R. Eckler, MD for educational, conversational reviews of current evidence guaranteed to help you make your best clinical decisions. Each high-yield episode gives you practical, time-tested guidance from practicing emergency medicine clinicians and subject-matter experts. Listen and learn!
