PulmCCM

APRIL 18, 2024

Video laryngoscopy was introduced in 2001 as a technique for orotracheal intubation. The real world success rates by operators experienced with intubation remained unknown. In the relatively few studies comparing video to direct laryngoscopy, intubations were usually performed by inexperienced trainees, and sample sizes were small.

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PHEM Cast

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Emergency Department thoracotomy for the critically injured patient: Objectives, indications, and outcomes. 2001, 193 (3): 303-309. 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.

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Taming the SRU

OCTOBER 23, 2023

At this point, the patient is taken to the operating room for a diagnostic laparoscopy. Discrimination between an IUP and an interstitial pregnancy is critical as interstitial pregnancies can have devastating outcomes. She was taken to the operating room and found to have a right tubal ectopic pregnancy with a pseudogestational sac.

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Ultrasounds Operations Radiology Radiology 98

ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These stakeholders are similarly shielded in court when adverse patient outcomes, such as negligent deaths, occur under their management or when the bought-out companies are challenged for anticompetitive business practices overseen by the PE firm. 7-9 The PE model then aims to sell acquired businesses for a profit within three to six years.

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EM Updates

MARCH 24, 2021

The age of VL was ushered in by the 2001 Glidescope, which simultaneously introduced two technologies: video (putting a camera at the end of the blade and projecting the image onto a screen), and hyperangulated geometry (blades with a much steeper curve that are designed not to move the tongue out of the way, but to advance around the tongue).

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PulmCCM

APRIL 1, 2024

Physical therapy is probably under-provided to critically ill patients, and improving this might improve outcomes for many. That could (and should) change if improved functional outcomes, persisting for months after hospital discharge, are ever confirmed in large, well-conducted trials.

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PHEM Cast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

trauma 2004) showed that end-tidal CO2 may be of value in predicting outcome from major trauma (19). Qvigstad et al showed in again in Resuscitation in 2013, confirming inter-individual variation in effectiveness of CPR using ETCO2 as a surrogate for CO Trauma Deakin et al. (J. 2013;118(1):192-201. doi:10.1097/ALN.0b013e318278c8b6

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