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Emergency & Critical Care Podcasts
6 shows and 1,243 episodes sit under Emergency & Critical Care.
Podcasts covering emergency medicine, ICU care, trauma, resuscitation, pharmacy, and nursing in acute-care settings.
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A crashing patient shortens the distance between evidence and action. The strongest listening here keeps both in view: what the research supports, what the physiology suggests and what a clinician can reasonably do next.
Evidence at the bedside
FOAMcast - An Emergency Medicine Podcast sounds like clinicians reasoning together rather than delivering a polished lecture. Bedside slang gives way to trial design, mortality figures and guideline strength; uncertainty is examined instead of tidied away.
Core EM - Emergency Medicine Podcast takes a more compact, topic-led approach. Post-ROSC Care and Prehospital Blood Transfusion sit squarely in resuscitation, while Acute Pulmonary Embolism offers a focused route into a familiar emergency presentation.
Physiology and the people doing the work
The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast goes narrow and technical. The Synapse Season 3 Episode 63 - Coronary Perfusion Pressure Concepts concentrates on physiology; The Synapse Season 3 Episode 66 - Pressure-Transducing the IO Access Site in Cardiac Arrest moves into procedure, and The Synapse Season 3 Episode 65 - Cytokine Storm and Sepsis Biomarkers signals a laboratory-facing angle.
Other shows widen the frame. ENA Podcast offers Going Further for Little Ones: Neonatal Advanced Life Support Resuscitation Training. MECCSIG Podcasts puts the working culture of intensive care in view with Starting Again: Burnout, Leadership, and Compassion in Critical Care with Dr Kerrianne Huynh.
At the boundary with palliative medicine, GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast is warm, interview-led and willing to pause over an uncomfortable question. Uncertainty In Medicine: Jonathan Ilgen and Gurpreet Dhaliwal and What Makes a Good Death? Karen Steinhauser, Rasa Mikelyte, Edison Vidal make useful listening when acute decisions cannot be separated from prognosis or values.
Finding the neighboring lane
Move up to Medicine for broader clinical listening. Medical Education & Training follows how clinicians learn, while Healthcare Innovation looks toward changing systems and technologies. Physical Therapy & Rehab begins further along the patient journey, with recovery and function rather than immediate stabilization.
Where to start
Choose FOAMcast - An Emergency Medicine Podcast for conversational evidence review. Start with Core EM - Emergency Medicine Podcast when you want one clinical problem at a time, or The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast for tighter physiology and procedure. Add GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast when the hardest question is what the intervention is for.
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The highest-scoring 60-second moments anywhere in emergency & critical care, one per show.
Drawn from 64 playable clips across 6 shows.
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The newest emergency & critical care clips in the library, one per show — ordered by when the clip was made, not when the episode came out.
10 clips, one per show, added between 2026-08-09 and 2026-09-05.
Featured shows
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Each has a written blurb stored with the page, with the role its editor gave it on this beat.
Brisk, analytical emergency medicine with deep dives into resuscitation, sepsis, and rhythm controversies.
Clean topic-by-topic emergency medicine covering post-ROSC care, anticoagulation reversal, and blunt trauma.
Emergency Nurses Association episodes on neonatal resuscitation, measles management, and workplace safety.
ICU prognosis, aging in critical care, and crisis communication in the emergency department.
Where to start
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Evidence-based critical appraisal of trials—VFib defibrillation, sepsis resuscitation, PE risk stratification—in a conversational format.
Trial-of-the-week format covering ICU pharmacotherapy, VTE prophylaxis, and CRRT—built for pharmacy practitioners.
Emergency Nurses Association content on neonatal resuscitation training, pediatric emergencies, and workplace violence.
ICU communication, time-limited trials, comfort care nudges, and crisis grief work in the ED.
Glossary
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Return of spontaneous circulation—the point in cardiac arrest resuscitation when a pulse is restored, triggering post-resuscitation care protocols.
Rapid sequence intubation—a procedure combining sedation and paralysis to quickly secure a patient's airway in emergencies.
Continuous renal replacement therapy—a slow, continuous form of dialysis used in critically ill patients whose kidneys have failed.
Free Open Access Medical Education—an online movement sharing clinical teaching content (including podcasts) freely, associated with shows like FOAMcast.
Preventive treatment (anticoagulants or compression) to reduce the risk of venous thromboembolism in hospitalized or post-trauma patients.
An agreement to try a life-sustaining treatment for a defined period before reassessing goals of care—often discussed in ICU and palliative-care contexts.