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Glasgow Coma Scale in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

Consider other indicators of need for airway management, such as gag reflex. 2006 May;34(5):379-87. GCS scores are validated in trauma populations , but it has its limitations in the medical populations. It’s complicated. Less than 8 doesn’t always mean intubate ! References : Teasdale G, Jennett B. A practical scale.

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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

Don't Forget the Bubbles

A retrospective cohort analysis of the ED portion of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey from 2006 to 2009 in the US revealed that less than one-half of patients undergoing ETI in the ED received sedative drugs while in the ED. Pediatric Endotracheal Intubations for Airway Management in the Emergency Department.

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Episode 6: Oxygenation

PHEM Cast

Preoxygenation and Prevention of Desaturation During Emergency Airway Management. 2006: 30(1); 63-67. Apneic oxygenation was associated with decreased desaturation rates during rapid sequence intubation by an Australian helicopter emergency medicine service. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2015; 65(4): 371-376.

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Intubation

PHEM Cast

Positioning From: [link] Recommended Rich Levitan resources Podcast 70 – Airway Management with Rich Levitan Airway axes From: McGuire B, Hodge K. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2006; 47(6):548-555 Lewis SR, Butler AR, Parker J, Cook TM, Smith AF. AAGBI Safer Prehospital Anaesthesia 2017, available here. Sunde, G.A.,

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Ten Commandments for Emergency Professionals; a compendium

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

The Ten Commandments of Wound Management Ernst, A., Thieme. Ten commandments of burn management Gupta J L. Ten commandments of burn management. NHS Airway The Ten Commandments of Airway Management Slovis, C. Management of conventional mass casualty incidents: ten commandments for hospital planning.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Buffington] NTI largely supplanted by RSI: Current resuscitation practice focuses on the oral route for airway management and intubation. Raja, MD, MBA, MPH Trauma Airway Management J Emerg Med. Advances in prehospital airway management. Sukhupragarn, “ Airway Management ,” In: P. Rogue Medic.