Don't Forget the Bubbles

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. This is referred to as CPR I nduced C onsciousness ( CPRIC ).

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Airway Management Emergency Department Resuscitation Psychiatric 135

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JUNE 4, 2017

Huber-Wagner et al ( Lancet 2009 ) showed a mortality reduction in a retrospective database study of patients who have had a pan scan. There is no validated clinical decision tool to help guide our decisions. Many studies (most retrospective) have assessed the use of pan scanning as an initial radiologic evaluation.

Radiology 52

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

APRIL 1, 2017

Be ready to perform CPR. Children 1 year and up, unconscious – CPR: start CPR with chest compressions (do not perform a pulse check). Steady the operating hand by placing your hypothenar eminence on the child’s zygoma or temporal scalp, to avoid jutting the instrument into the ear canal with sudden movement. Pediatrics.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MARCH 27, 2015

factor than oral (which still suffers from the too-personal-contact-reluctance of the lay rescuer, as in “hands only CPR”), and to the more euphonious persuasion of “Mouth to Mouth” and “Kiss of Life.” At that time, too, it was felt that the cause, or —at least, the major focus of investigation, of Upper Airway Obstruction was the tongue.

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