Pediatric EM Morsels

JULY 21, 2023

Consider other indicators of need for airway management, such as gag reflex. GCS scores are validated in trauma populations , but it has its limitations in the medical populations. It’s complicated. Less than 8 doesn’t always mean intubate ! References : Teasdale G, Jennett B. Assessment of coma and impaired consciousness.

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PulmCCM

APRIL 18, 2024

Anesthesiology residents literally stop counting, generally performing well over a thousand intubations in a four-year residency (compared to pulmonary-critical care fellows’ mere nine months total in the ICU on a traditional research/clinical split), including extensive experience on difficult airways and advanced airway management.

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EMDocs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It is particularly useful in cases of physically difficult airway management, such as in patients with obesity, limited neck mobility, or cervical spine immobilization. Incidence and factors associated with cardiac arrest complicating emergency airway management. Chest 2000; 117(1): 260 – 7. 2000 Jan-Mar;4(1):14-8.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

JULY 9, 2015

How versatile are your airway skills? Most airway management is done with the patient supine and on a table. Importantly, you should practice airway support and BVM facing the patient "from the south" (facing cephalad). A Tight Squeeze Airway management for the limited-access patient. Weinberg, G.

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Airway Management Pediatrics Resuscitation Emergency Nursing 40

RebelEM

JULY 20, 2023

A randomized controlled trial on the effect of educational interventions in promoting airway management skill maintenance. Human Performance. 11(1):57 – 101. Link is HERE ). Kovacs G, Bullock G, Ackroyd-Stolarz S, Cain E, Petrie D. Ann Emerg Med. PMID: 11020676. Maehle V, Cooper K, Kirkpatrick P.

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RebelEM

MARCH 27, 2023

2000 May 4; PMID: 10793162 Harvey CE, et al. REFERENCES: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network et al. Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome. N Engl J Med. Crit Care Explor. 2022 Feb 8; PMID: 35156050 Higgins TL et al.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Pediatric airway management is a skill that integrates the three types of knowledge as described by the ancient Greeks: episteme , or theoretical knowledge, techne , or technical knowledge, and phronesis , or practical wisdom, also called prudence. in Anethesia and Analgesia in 2000.

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