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Brain Trauma Guidelines for Emergency Medicine

ACEP Now

This document is an update of guidelines first published in 2000, and then updated in 2007. Confounders to the GCS such as seizure and post-ictal phase, ingestions and drug overdose, as well as medications administered in the prehospital setting that impact GCS score should be documented.

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Episode 14: Thoracotomy

PHEM Cast

pdf Equipment required for resuscitative thoracotomy: Surface anatomy: Appearance of pericardial clot A foley catheter being used to fill a cardiac wound – note how easily this could be pulled out. An open chest with aortic compression Simulation of resuscitative thoracotomy by London HEMS team. J Am Coll Surg; 2000.

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SGEM#197: Die Trying – Intubation of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Case: You are working a regular shift in the emergency department when you hear a code blue called. You are the first physician to respond and you begin to resuscitate the patient. The survival rate for IHCA has almost doubled from the year 2000 when it was only 13.7%.

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Impact of Emergency Department Crowding on Lung Protective Ventilation

RebelEM

What They Did: Retrospective, observational cohort study in a single high-volume academic hospital The ED had a 5 bed area used for ongoing management and resuscitation of patients who clinically deteriorate while boarding or while actively undergo a workup in other sections of the ED. 2000 May 4; PMID: 10793162 Harvey CE, et al.

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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

The latter 1950s and 1960s, quested for nerve gas defense studying expired air resuscitation and modern resuscitology; developing intensive care units. To me, it harkens a new scientific renaissance of resuscitation science, emergency care, and creating systems for care. 1950s & 1960s Resuscitation Research. 10/20/2013.

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Assume the position … ??Awkward Airway Positions

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Pull out the manikins (or use a volunteer; BVM only) and run some awkward codes! ü With foresight, plan for your alternatives based upon what you have now , until the patient can be brought safely to conventional resuscitation room settings. Resuscitation, 56(1), 83-89. How versatile are your airway skills? Weinberg, G.

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MI in Children

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Hemodynamically labile children should be resuscitated and a stat transesophageal echocardiogram obtained. The best documented cormorbidity is sickle cell disease, although other pro-thrombotic conditions also put the child at risk. 2000; 35(6):618-622. 1986; 108(2):198-203. Pongratz G et al. European Heart J. 15:1002-1004.