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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Ben has a possible skull fracture and has been intubated, but his oxygen requirement is minimal. A 2012 study on paediatric patients showed that approximately 42% were intubated without medications, and 2% were intubated with paralysis only in the ED. This is referred to as CPR I nduced C onsciousness ( CPRIC ). His name is Ben.

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

EB Medicine

In terms of radiography, a chest x-ray should be obtained as rib fractures, hemopneumothorax, and mediastinal free air are all things you wouldn't want to miss and are also associated with blunt cardiac injury. Nachi: Perfect, so that sums up treatment, next we have one special circumstance to discuss: sternal fractures.

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Patient is informed of her husband's death: is it OMI or it stress cardiomyopathy?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

She sustained a large scalp hematoma along with several rib and vertebral fractures, but with CT scanning of chest/abdomen/pelvis/C-T-L-spine and head, no life threatening injuries were found. A woman in her late 60s presented after a car crash. Her husband was driving and she was a passenger. They were hit at high speed. link] Mostofsky, E.,

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

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.