The Skeptics' Guide to EM

AUGUST 10, 2024

Case: A 65-year-old man is brought into the emergency department (ED) by emergency medical services (EMS) after his family saw him slump over at the dinner table. He is an assistant professor in Emergency Medicine, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at the School of Medicine at the University of Washington. Reversal of Warfarin: Freeman et al.

Stroke 70

Stroke Airway Management Outcomes Documentation/Coding 70

RebelEM

JULY 20, 2023

EMS radios in for a burn patient and to anticipate a difficult airway. She was smoking with her home O2 on and has severe mixed partial and full thickness burns to the chest, neck, face, and airway. Emergency Medicine (EM) is an amazing specialty because anything can come through the door at any moment. PMID: 15383395.

EMS 75

EMS Burns Airway Management Wellness 75

PHEM Cast

APRIL 21, 2021

Positioning From: [link] Recommended Rich Levitan resources Podcast 70 – Airway Management with Rich Levitan Airway axes From: McGuire B, Hodge K. 2004 Aug;99(2):607-13, Hasegawa K et al. Difficult prehospital endotracheal intubation – predisposing factors in a physician based EMS. Tracheal intubation.

Airway Management 52

Airway Management Resuscitation EMS Hospitals 52

Pediatric EM Morsels

JULY 21, 2023

We had just received a young child from EMS who was post-ictal with decreased mentation. Consider other indicators of need for airway management, such as gag reflex. The post Glasgow Coma Scale in Children appeared first on Pediatric EM Morsels. Less than 8, intubate! It’s complicated. A practical scale.

Head Injuries 246

Head Injuries Pediatrics Outcomes Shock 246

PHEM Cast

JULY 6, 2017

[link] The West Midlands surgical skills course offers cadaveric training for PHEM and EM practitioners on rare life saving procedures. Anatomy The Guidelines Difficult Airway Society 2015 guidelines for management of unanticipated difficult intubation in adults. Difficult Airway Society: Intubation guidelines working group.

Airway Management 52

Airway Management Academics Operations Resuscitation 52

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Automatic transport ventilator versus bag valve in the EMS setting: a prospective, randomized trial. Study finds EMS able to do more tasks, document better, perform physiological monitoring, with use of ATV. Efficacy and safety in patients on a resuscitator, Oxylator EM-100, in comparison with a bag-valve device. Grainge, C.

Resuscitation 40

Resuscitation CPR Documentation/Coding EMS 40

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Classic Advice to New Interns (Commentary upon 10 Commandments of EM) Ten Commandments of Emergency Medicine Luke & Cusack Cork Emergency Medicine 2014 The Derriford twelve commandments of emergency medicine: a model for good practice in a changing world, or a survival guide for new medical staff Smith, J. 2004 Aug;27(2):193-4.

Mass Casualty Incidents 40

Mass Casualty Incidents Burns Urgent Care Pediatrics 40