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The Broselow-Luten System

Pediatric EM Morsels

James Broselow, a family medicine-turned-emergency medicine physician from Hickory, North Carolina , recognized that his team spent a lot of time trying to calculate doses of medications rather than spending their mental energy on the actual medical decisions for the resuscitation. This system has now become the “ industry standard.”

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ECG Blog #388 — Why Does Lead V1 Look Funny?

Ken Grauer, MD

The ECG in Figure-1 was obtained from an 18-year old woman — who moments before been resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. How would YOU interpret her post-resuscitation ECG? Figure-1: The initial ECG in today's case — obtained following resuscitation from cardiac arrest of an 18-year old woman. About A RVC/ A RVD.

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Cerebral Edema and Diabetic Ketoacidosis: Rebaked

Pediatric EM Morsels

The exact mechanism is not known… It was previously believed that it was due to rapid changes in serum osmolality during initial fluid resuscitation. 2010 Dec;1(2):103-20. Glucose > 200 mg/dL Moderate or Large Ketonuria The severity of DKA is categorized by the degree of acidosis Mild : venous pH < 7.3 Lesson = treat early!

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Gender-focused training improves leadership of female medical students: A randomised trial

SheMD

They studied the effect of gender composition of resuscitation teams with all different combinations (female-female; female-male; male-male; male-female). Transcripts were coded to sort data into “leadership occurrences” or “unrelated to leadership” as well as critical treatment decisions. 2010; 85(8): 1276- 1281. Crit Care Med.

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TEG-Guided Resuscitation of Patients with Cirrhosis and Non-Variceal Bleeding

RebelEM

As described in the CONSORT statement, the use of p-values in table 1 is inappropriate as the study is not powered to show a difference in baseline characteristics between the treatment and control group in an RCT (Schulz 2010). CONSORT 2010 statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomized trials. Ann Intern Med.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

This is the fifth part of our series on "Early Modern Resuscitation." " Part I: Oral Airways, early resuscitation, and recognition of airway care. It was not a practical resuscitative aid until production could be commercially successful (~1895) and made portable in compressed form. Pulmotor is 1907.

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Early Modern Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Although told several times, the story of the development by Henning Ruben of the prototypical modern manual resuscitator, the self-refilling bag with unidirectional non-rebreathing valves which now dominate the world of resuscitation, is still not well-known. Czech Military resuscitation kit, 1969, mfr.