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Glasgow Coma Scale in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

We have mentioned the Glasgow Coma Scale in multiple delicious morsels: Minor closed head injuries in <3 month olds and in the rebaked morsel , Blunt cerebrovascular injury , Cerebral edema in DKA , Pediatric Trauma Pitfalls , and Carbon monoxide poisoning. Consider other indicators of need for airway management, such as gag reflex.

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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

Overlapping categories include the nasal natural airway; expiratory airway obstruction in sleep and resuscitation; Mouth to Nose resuscitation; airway adjuncts that traverse the nasal passage; intubation via the nasal route whether “blind” (auditory, tactile), visualized by laryngoscope or other optical/video/endoscopic device.