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Ultrasound of the Month: No Definitive Yolk Sac, No Definitive IUP!

Taming the SRU

At this point, the patient is taken to the operating room for a diagnostic laparoscopy. She was taken to the operating room and found to have a right tubal ectopic pregnancy with a pseudogestational sac. 2007), Free Fluid in Morison's Pouch on Bedside Ultrasound Predicts Need for Operative Intervention in Suspected Ectopic Pregnancy.

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Episode 25: Tension pneumothorax 2

PHEM Cast

Academic Emergency Medicine : Official Journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine , 11 (2), 211–213. Journal of Special Operations Medicine : a Peer Reviewed Journal for SOF Medical Professionals , 13 (4), 53–58. Needle thoracostomy: implications of computed tomography chest wall thickness. link] Harcke, H.

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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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Is it Time to Take Another Look at the State of Emergency Care in the U.S.? 

ACEP Now

This funding expanded the committee’s work to include three reports: Hospital Based Emergency Care – at the Breaking Point ; Emergency Medical Services – at the Crossroads ; and Emergency Care for Children – Growing Pains ,” all released in 2007. National Academics. Prescott, MD, another member of the committee. “We

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Seeing Peter Safar, and his work

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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. J., & Worrell, L.

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Testicular torsion

Don't Forget the Bubbles

One systematic review of 1283 patients showed that if you got to the operating room within 6 hours, you had a 97% chance of saving the testicle. Urgent senior review, decision making and operation 31.3% Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine , 10 (1). This dropped to 79.3% had not been reviewed by four hours. Schwarz, G.M.

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Academic Emergency Medicine., 2007 Oct; 33(3): 233–239. Academic Emergency Medicine, 2003 Volume 10, Number 5 539-540. 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. Sivilotti, M., Mukarram, M.,