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Impact of Emergency Department Crowding on Lung Protective Ventilation

RebelEM

First ED-based study to evaluate how operational effects such as crowding can affect patient care in the form of LPV Included ARDS criteria relating to the usage of LPV in the ED allowing evaluation as to whether patients with ARDS were more likely to receive LPV settings. 2011 Feb 15; Epub 2010 Aug 27. PMID: 19325480 Gajic O, et al.

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A Simplified Approach to Managing the Difficult Airway in Children

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Table 1: Airway assessment Can we predict a difficult pediatric airway? Even though there is no clear-cut answer, there are some risk factors that make a difficult airway more likely. Airway complications are also more likely to occur in the emergency department (ED) than in the operating theatre. Br J Anaesth.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

It wrongly frightened some medical personnel as it was operated by a 50 psi wall source or from a step-down regulator from a tank (some thought the patient received wall 50 psi or 1500 psig from the tank directly to the lung. The Demand Valve was the answer to this, appearing in 1964.Upon Grainge, C. Noordergraaf, G. Van Dun, P. Kramer, B.

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Episode 19: Surgical Airway

PHEM Cast

Other fantastic #FOAM resources regarding airway management are available: From Nicholas Chrimes at [link] From the fabulous people over at Life in the Fast Lane including a video demo from Scott Weingart from EMCrit: [link] References This is Tim’s recent publication we mention in the ‘cast! Woodall, N., & Frerk, C.

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Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Inhalation Injuries

Taming the SRU

For example, one study examining occupational chemical injuries from 2011- 2017 showed a total of 297 fatalities with an average of around 40 fatalities per year (13). Upper Airway Injury to the upper airway, defined as airway structures proximal to the glottis (i.e.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

They also proved that only expired air resuscitation guaranteed sufficient inflation volumes; that exhaled air was a suitable resuscitating gas; and that the operator would have continuous feedback from each breath. June 6, 2011. Raja, MD, MBA, MPH Trauma Airway Management J Emerg Med. Be alert to changes in waveform.