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Post-Tonsillectomy Hemorrhage: ReBaked Morsel

Pediatric EM Morsels

Since the original morsel ( way back in 2012 ), the literature has shown that there are a few extra ingredients that we can add to our morsel recipe when we care for children with post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage. Get a hold of ENT early as OR management and/or admission are common. Set up suction x2 in the room!

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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

Don't Forget the Bubbles

A 2012 study on paediatric patients showed that approximately 42% were intubated without medications, and 2% were intubated with paralysis only in the ED. Awake fiberoptic intubation where the patient consents, co-operative AND the airway is prepared with local anaesthesia. What are the only exceptions? DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e3182713316

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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! : Nutbeam, T., and Gay, D.

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Assume the position … ??Awkward Airway Positions

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Most airway management is done with the patient supine and on a table. Importantly, you should practice airway support and BVM facing the patient "from the south" (facing cephalad). You may be assisting an airway manager (who's in the vertex position) who needs extra jaw thrust or lift. Video] Oct 30, 2012.

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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 Noordergraaf, G. Van Dun, P. Kramer, B. Schors, M.

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Episode 26 – Blunt Cardiac Injury: Emergency Department Diagnosis and Management (Trauma CME)

EB Medicine

Moreover, when airway management is needed, advanced airway techniques by ALS crews were associated with decreased odds of survival. In one RCT, the FAST exam reduced the time from arrival in the ED to operative care by 64% in the setting of trauma. for pericardial effusion. Jeff: Not only is US accurate, it’s also quick.

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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. Raja, MD, MBA, MPH Trauma Airway Management J Emerg Med. Advances in prehospital airway management.