FOAMcast
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
FOAMcast turns emergency medicine guidelines and trials into practical bedside reasoning for listeners comfortable with clinical density.
FOAMcast - An Emergency Medicine Podcast fits Health & Fitness as a clinician-facing medicine feed, focused on emergency department choices instead of general wellness advice.
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A patient-centered resuscitation story that makes a usually evidence-heavy show feel more reflective and human.
FOAMcast takes an unusual turn here, centering Lauren Westenberg in conversation with Billy Froelich, a 63-year-old writer, and letting his recovery story lead.
A practical look at how acute heart-failure care has shifted toward CPAP, non-invasive ventilation, and high-dose nitroglycerin in the right patients.
Sounding more like a bedside update than a grand theory, the episode follows how acute heart-failure care in the emergency department has moved away from routine intubation and toward CPAP, non-invasive ventilation, and high-dose nitroglycerin for hypertensive patients with…
A skeptical look at a high-stakes trauma tool that sounds elegant and may not help.
Foamcast takes on REBOA, the aortic balloon technique that drew real excitement in the foam era, and keeps the focus on the question that matters: whether it helps the sick patients it is meant to save.
A practical reminder to numb a simple corneal abrasion without skipping the eye exam.
A corneal abrasion is miserable, even when the fix is straightforward, and the episode does its best work when it stays on careful exam work before comfort.
A clinician-facing fluids debate that stays close to sepsis metrics, enrollment friction, and bedside tradeoffs.
Foamcast follows the fluids in sepsis question without losing sight of the practical mess around it: government metrics, the Clovers trial, and the simple fact that enrollment is never clean.
A tight, practical refresher on adult blunt-trauma cervical spine clearance and the next step after a negative scan.
Lauren Westifer keeps this one tight and useful, moving straight from who can skip CT to what follows a negative scan. The episode stays with the decisions that matter in adult blunt-trauma C-spine clearance: Canadian C-spine versus NEXUS, high-speed MVCs, paresthesias,…
A careful look at when a restrictive transfusion strategy starts to wobble in myocardial infarction.
FOAMcast keeps its focus on the fault line between a less-is-more transfusion strategy and the question of how myocardial infarction changes the picture.
A practical look at how fast sedation choices matter when agitation becomes a safety problem.
The episode treats severe agitation in the ED as a safety issue first and a medication decision second, which fits the stakes it lays out. It stays focused on what the policy supports and why speed matters once verbal de-escalation has already failed.
Peter Attia evaluates longevity science, from CETP inhibitors to protein debates, through evidence.
Morning medical evidence, compressed for practice.
Medical research, translated through patient experience.
This episode of FOAMcast, hosted by Lauren Westifer, discusses recent updates in managing acute ischemic priapism in emergency departments, highlighting that conservative therapies are no longer recommended as sole treatments and emphasizing the use of vasoactive agents like phenylephrine.
Lauren Westover breaks down the 2023 American Heart Association atrial fibrillation guidelines, focusing on emergency medicine relevance.
This episode reviews the ACEP clinical policy on sedation for severely agitated patients, focusing on medication choices for rapid and safe treatment.
Host Lauren Westifer introduces new ACEP clinical guidelines for diagnosing thoracic aortic dissection, explaining its life-threatening nature, types, and diagnostic challenges.
This episode explores the use of steroids for severe community acquired pneumonia, contrasting historical guidelines with recent evidence from COVID-19 and reviews.
This episode discusses the management of acute uncomplicated diverticulitis, challenging the routine use of antibiotics and highlighting evidence-based guidelines from major medical societies.
This episode discusses new guidelines recommending against routine Rh immunoglobulin for Rh negative patients experiencing first-trimester abortions, a shift from long-standing emergency medicine practices.
This episode of FOAMcast, hosted by Lauren Westifer, explores the 'diamond of death' in trauma, focusing on hypocalcemia and the lethal triad of hypothermia, acidosis, and coagulopathy.
Lauren Westover on FOAMcast walks through the ACEP clinical policy on acute heart failure syndrome and focuses on point-of-care lung ultrasound, early diuretics, risk tools, and high-dose nitroglycerin.
FOAMcast covers the ACEP consensus guideline on topical anesthetics for simple corneal abrasions, including the recommendation that adult ED patients can receive proparacaine, tetracaine, or oxybuprocaine for up to 24 hours.
This episode discusses new transfusion guidelines from the AABB and the mint trial, focusing on whether restrictive or liberal transfusion strategies are better for patients with myocardial infarction and anemia.
This episode of FOAMcast focuses on cervical spine clearance in adult blunt trauma, comparing the Canadian C-spine decision tool and NEXUS criteria.
Lauren Westenberg steps away from Foamcast's usual evidence-based format to talk with Billy Froelich, the accidental patient she met last May.
FOAMcast’s Lauren Westifer and guest Jeremy Faust break down the CLOVERS trial, a multicenter randomized study of restrictive versus liberal fluids in sepsis-induced hypotension.
FOAMcast's REBOA episode centers on a JAMA pragmatic Bayesian randomized trial from 16 UK trauma centers, with 89 patients and 90-day mortality as the primary outcome.
This episode discusses the treatment of asthma in emergency medicine, highlighting the high number of ED visits and the reliance on short-acting beta agonists like albuterol.