PHEM Cast

JULY 6, 2017

Cricothyrotomy performed with the Melker set or the QuickTrach kit: procedure times, learning curves and operators’ preference. H., & Welch, T. Cricothyroidotomy: a clinical anatomy review. Clinical Anatomy (New York, NY) , 17 (6), 478–486. link] Buonopane, C. Sottile, D., Del Vecchio, L., Merola, R.,

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 17, 2024

Closer to home, the New South Wales Poisons Information Centre (NSWPIC) reported 129 incidents involving water-absorbing beads since 2004. They passed away a few days after a second operation. The vast majority were managed at home, with no adverse events reported. Again, the majority were managed at home. It’s beads, too!

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ACEP Now

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

However, to stay static in today’s world is to fade into irrelevance and our country and our membership needs the voice and presence of emergency medicine.

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PHEM Cast

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Journal of Special Operations Medicine : a Peer Reviewed Journal for SOF Medical Professionals , 13 (4), 53–58. Marasco, S., Hoyle, R., & Kossmann, T. Pleural decompression and drainage during trauma reception and resuscitation. Injury , 39 (1), 9–20. link] Givens, M. Ayotte, K., & Manifold, C. L., & Mazuchowski, E. Branco, B.

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ALiEM

AUGUST 9, 2023

The lung POCUS is also operator-dependent, and it has a steep learning curve. 2004 Feb;30(2):276-281. Limitations Lung pathology may be missed without a complete lung POCUS scanning protocol, as you will only see pathology located directly under the probe. Ultrasound diagnosis of alveolar consolidation in the critically ill.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JUNE 1, 2017

Fontan Operation and the Single Ventricle. 2004; 90:e17. 2004; 110:e511-e513. 2004; 114(2):255-258. Chacko P et al. 2004; 89:359-362. References Congenital AboulHosn JA et al. Congenit Heart Dis. 2007; 2:2-11. Aliku TO et al. African Health Sci. 2014; 14(1): 23-227. Andrews RE et al. Canale LS et al.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

DECEMBER 18, 2014

2004 Aug;27(2):193-4. 10 Commandments of Risk Management (Camp Operations) THE "20 Commandments" of EMTALA Ten Commandments For Malpractice Depositions The Top Ten Ways to Ensure Frustration, Miscommunication, and Poor Patient Care the Next Time You Provide (or Request) a Consult [N.B. J Emerg Med.

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PHEM Cast

APRIL 19, 2016

One RTC – 3 perspectives’ – Darren North The fire service have only had a statutory duty to attend RTCs since 2004. Remember this, especially when managing adolescents; children may not be as interactive or as co-operative as you would expect for their age. Their role is to protect people from harm – patients and practitioners.

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Head Injuries Ambulance Services Hospitals Leadership 52

Northwestern EM Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The Kocher Criteria (originally developed in 1999 and validated in 2004) can be helpful in determining the likelihood of septic arthritis [6]. Management is orthopedic consultation for operative stabilization [12]. Septic Arthritis - A “do not miss” diagnosis, commonly ages 3-6 with a slight male predominance [5]. 2012;97(5):185-193.

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Taming the SRU

AUGUST 30, 2023

Bacterial Meningitis: IDSA guidelines for 2004 report that a normal CRP value has a high negative predictive value for bacterial meningitis, but sensitivities and specificities vary between studies [35]. This finding was not significantly different among operators with different levels of experience, or between adults and children.

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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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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

APRIL 8, 2014

Artificial Respiration by Mouth-to-Mask Method — A Study of the Respiratory Gas Exchange of Paralyzed Patients Ventilated by Operator's Expired Air. LeFanu, James (1997) Hero who put himself through hell The Sunday Telegraph 16 February 1997 **Blog recounting Pask's intrepidity and personal experimentation. Resuscitation , 61 (2), 113-116. **The

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Safar's work, in a series of studies and papers, validated manual methods of opening the airway, in use by anesthesiologists but relatively unknown outside the operating room, as effective and able to be taught and used by lay people. " established that exhaled air was a satisfactory gas for resuscitation.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The fire department, who operate at an EMT level in this municipality, arrived before us and administered 324 mg of baby aspirin to the patient due to concern for ACS. N Engl J Med [Internet] 2013;368(21):2004–13. A mid 60s woman with history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and GERD called 911 for chest pain. Available from: [link] 4.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JANUARY 27, 2025

Aziz D, Davis V, Allen L, Langer JC (2004) Ovarian torsion in children: is oophorectomy necessary? How unstable is this patient? Do they need to be in the bay in front of your nursing station or in resus? CT prediction of the degree of ovarian torsion. Jpn J Radiol. 2015 Aug;33(8):487-93. doi: 10.1007/s11604-015-0452-z. Epub 2015 Jun 29.

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EMDocs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Operative complications requiring surgical intervention or hospitalization occur in about 3-6% of all hysterectomies (5). difficile infection, and post-operative hemorrhage. Abscess and Infected Hematoma : This condition is typically delayed, occurring most commonly 10-14 days post-operatively.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

It wrongly frightened some medical personnel as it was operated by a 50 psi wall source or from a step-down regulator from a tank (some thought the patient received wall 50 psi or 1500 psig from the tank directly to the lung. The Demand Valve was the answer to this, appearing in 1964.Upon Grainge, C. Developmental history. Noordergraaf, G.

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ACEP Now

APRIL 4, 2024

Other exceptions are patient refusal, patient death or immediate transfer to the operating room. Feasibility of preoperative computer tomography in patients with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm: a time-to-death study in patients without operation. 2004 Apr;39:788-91. Lloyd GM, Bown MJ, Norwood MG, et al. J Vasc Surg.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

Risk-score performance was measured by comparing the proportions of patients with arrhythmias at various levels of the score and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for physician prediction probability was 0.58 (95% confidence interval 0.38 95% CI = 1.9 to 26.0).

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JANUARY 1, 2017

Neonatal observational scales have been validated in the intensive care and post-operative settings; ED-specific quantitative scales are lacking. CRIES ( Table 1 ) was validated for post-operative patients; to adapt its use for the ED, the most conservative approach is to substitute “preoperative baseline” with normal range for age.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Spring 2004. President Eisenhower's Operation for Regional Enteritis A Footnote to History. George Washington Eyewitness Account of his Death © 2013. http://www.drzebra.com Part of “ Health and Medical History of President George Washington.” Vadakan, VV. Permanente Journal. Volume 8; Number 2. Articles Schmidt, P. 1, Summer 1991.

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