The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine
Dr. Ken Milne
Show overview
The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 118 episodes. That works out to roughly 60 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 25 min and 41 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Education show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 29 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Dr. Ken Milne.
From the publisher
Meet 'em, greet 'em, treat 'em and street 'em
Latest Episodes
View all 118 episodesSGEM#518: What Have You Done for Me Lately – Oseltamivir for Hospitalized Patients?
SGEM Xtra: Carl Heneghan – Legend of Evidence-Based Medicine
SGEM#517 : I Will Try to Fix You. Surgery or Not for Pediatric Displaced Medial Epicondyle Elbow Fractures
SGEM#516: A Whole Lotta Blood – Whole Blood Transfusion in the Prehospital Setting
SGEM Xtra: Ferraris, Friends, and First Responders – Lessons Learned from Watching Magnum, P.I.
SGEM#515: Now the Azithromycin Don’t Work for Preschool Wheeze
SGEM#514: Every Time You Go Away (and survive alive for 90 days) – Is It Due To A Restricted Fluid Strategy with Early Vasopressors?
SGEM#513: Everything is Awesome – Unless You Swallow A LEGO Head
SGEM#512: When you go your way, and I Go Mine – Surgery or Antibiotics for Acute Appendicitis.
SGEM Xtra: Welcome to the Jungle of Disaster Medicine
SGEM#511: I’d Like To Treat, DKA with the SQuID Protocol
SGEM#510: Take this Broken Radius and just Cast It.
SGEM#509: I love the Java Jive & It Loves Me – Preventing Dementia with Coffee and Tea
SGEM #508: How Low Can You Go? Rethinking Lumbar Punctures in Well-Appearing Febrile Infants
SGEM#507: Till Everybody Got Delirious – Geriatric Patients in the Emergency Department
SGEM Xtra: You You You Oughta Know – GED 2.0 Guidelines
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 train generations of physicians in trauma care. He has previously joined SGEM for: SGEM #200 – Bloodletting and Alexander Hamilton SGEM #256 – RLQ Pain and Appendectomy SGEM #345 – Non-operative Management […] The post SGEM Xtra: This One Goes to 11 – ATLS 11th Edition first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine.
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. Stephanie Kubala is an attending physician in the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is double board-certified in both pediatrics and allergy and immunology. Case: A […] The post SGEM#506: Aww I’m Itchy…and I need a Second Generation Antihistamine first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine.
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 Acute Respiratory Failure: The RENOVATE Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA March 2025 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Rory Spiegel is an emergency medicine and critical care physician known for his work in evidence-based medicine and critical care. He […] The post SGEM#505: Close Enough for (ARF) Acute Respiratory Failure (HFNO vs NIV) first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine.
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 are recording this SGEM Xtra in a pub. This will be the second-ever SGEM PUBcast. We need to travel back in time to 2012 for the […] The post SGEM Xtra: It’s My Life – DPhil in Oxford first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine.