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Impact of Emergency Department Crowding on Lung Protective Ventilation

RebelEM

Over the past few years, there has been an increase in emergency department (ED) volumes and lengths of stay. The effect of emergency department crowding on lung-protective ventilation utilization for critically ill patients. More pertinent and relevant takeaway messages have to do with staffing and operations.

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Beyond Ketamine: When to use Facilitated Intubation in the ED

EMDocs

Improved Visualization: Video laryngoscopes allow for the use of standard or hyperangulated geometry, essentially allowing the operator to “look around the corner” on an anterior airway. Operators can manipulate the blade with less force to optimize the view, making it easier to identify and navigate the endotracheal tube into the trachea.

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Episode 14: Thoracotomy

PHEM Cast

Emergency Department thoracotomy for the critically injured patient: Objectives, indications, and outcomes. World Journal of Emergency Surgery; 2006: 1:4. Survival after Emergency Department thoracotomy: review of published data for last 25 years. J Am Coll Surg; 2000. Injury; 2006 (37): 1-19. Clay et al.

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Ortho Pearls: Metacarpal Fracture Management

Cook County EM Blog

The Case: A 40-year-old male with no past medical history presented to the emergency department after he was assaulted with closed fists just prior to arrival. 2000 Sep;25(5):817-23. The patient’s injuries included a blow to the back of his right hand. Metacarpal fractures: treatment and complications. Hand (N Y).

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Emergency Nurses Week 2017

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

However, what is unique in Emergency Nurses , is the ability to confront, decisively and actively, any emergency, regardless of medical specialty; to do so instantly, and without initial direction. Or another, at which the ambulance crew would have to call the hospital's telephone operator to send someone to unlock the door at night.

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Annals of B Pod: Phlegmasia Cerulea Dolens

Taming the SRU

She was concerned that this was not improving and decided to come to the emergency department (ED). Hospital Course The patient was initiated on a therapeutic heparin drip in the emergency department with vascular surgery consultation. 2000 Dec;45(6):644-6. She had not had any blood clots previously.

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The Private Equity Wave in Health Care

ACEP Now

Private equity investment in health care has increased more than 20-fold since 2000, with 70 percent of this activity since 2010. Still, this wave of private equity acquisitions in emergency medicine has come crashing down on the heads of many early-career physicians.

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