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Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Vascular Access in the Emergency Department

Taming the SRU

Establishing reliable vascular access is absolutely critical for ED patients requiring resuscitation, airway management, or medication administration. Contraindications for USGIV are the same as for any PIV: overlying skin infection, AV fistula in the extremity, previous surgery impacting vasculature, proximal trauma, or burns.

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Don’t Become Obsolete: The EM Physician’s Fight Against Procedural Decay

RebelEM

EMS radios in for a burn patient and to anticipate a difficult airway. The patient is horribly burned. She was smoking with her home O2 on and has severe mixed partial and full thickness burns to the chest, neck, face, and airway. INTRODUCTION You’re moonlighting in a remote access hospital. Human Performance.

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Ten Commandments for Emergency Professionals; a compendium

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Thieme. Ten commandments of burn management Gupta J L. Ten commandments of burn management. Indian J Burns 2012;20:7-10 Transfusion ten commandments U.K. NHS Airway The Ten Commandments of Airway Management Slovis, C. Higginson, I., Belsham, P., Hicks, A., & Boon, D.