ACEP Now

MARCH 14, 2024

18 The finger is inserted through the stoma alongside the endotracheal tube and, while 90 percent success rate has been reported with this method in controlling bleeding, the pressure must be maintained until the patient is transferred to the operating room. 2013:1960-62. Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. Scalise P, Prunk SR, Healy D, et al.

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EB Medicine

JULY 8, 2019

Jeff: Do note, however that 2013 guidelines do not recommend one procedure over another and leave that decision up to local surgical expertise, patient specific risk factors, and treatment goals. Jeff: Even more shockingly, some series showed a 52% repeat operation rate. These patients often require emergent operative intervention.

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Pediatric EM Morsels

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Both have a range of detection limits, which can be greatly dependent on operator. 2013 Sep 4; 89(3): 527–530. 3 thick and thin smears should be obtained at 12-24 hour intervals to fully rule out the possibility of malaria PCR is the most sensitive and specific test for malaria. Am J Trop Med Hyg. June 28, 2023.

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RebelEM

AUGUST 12, 2024

Contemp Clin Trials. Epub 2022 Aug 28. PMID: 36038001 Levi TM, et al. Comparison of the RIFLE, AKIN and KDIGO criteria to predict mortality in critically ill patients. Rev Bras Ter Intensiva. PMID: 24553510 Iacone R, et al. Macronutrients in Parenteral Nutrition: Amino Acids.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JUNE 1, 2017

The infant in shock after a ‘cold’: myocarditis Beware of the poor feeding, tachycardic, ill appearing infant who “has a cold” because everyone else around him has a ‘cold’. Fontan Operation and the Single Ventricle. 2013; 34(3):489-491. 2013; 34(4). 2013; 8(2):61-63. 2013; 6(5):752-761. Congenit Heart Dis.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

REBOA If you have access to resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta or REBOA, this may be an option to temporize the child to get him to the relative control of the operating room. They used REBOA for refractory hemorrhagic shock due to either blunt or penetrating injury. 2013 Sep;184(1):352-7. Brenner et al.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

MARCH 1, 2016

On arrival, he was in compensated shock, with tachycardia. Often children even with high-grade splenic and liver lacerations can be managed non-operatively. Unfortunately, a negative FAST cannot help with detecting or grading the laceration for non-operative management. 2013 Sep;184(1):352-7. 2013 Nov;206(5):655-60.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Perhaps, not insignificantly, they were accustomed to receiving systematized government-supplied medical and trauma care, with "shock rooms" receiving an influx of victims, as contrasted to those later who opposed "socialized medicine." 10/20/2013. Committee on Shock. There is also FOANed for Nursing.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MAY 3, 2014

Review of the Wellcome Library movies on YouTube (1945) [ links below in references ] is instructive as to resuscitative methods of the 1930s and 1940s: Manual methods; gas bag or bellows operated by hand or machine; an anesthesia gas machine; or iron lung. Evaluation: Manually Operated Resuscitators (1971) Emergency Care Research Institute.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 5, 2024

You should also consider the possibility of quote unquote spinal shock. than it is spinal shock. And hypotension, bradycardia, or temperature instability can result from hemorrhagic and or spinal shock. That’s a spine or neurosurgery operation. Cervical spine injury patterns in children. Pediatrics. Am J Emerg Med.

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PHEM Cast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Qvigstad et al showed in again in Resuscitation in 2013, confirming inter-individual variation in effectiveness of CPR using ETCO2 as a surrogate for CO Trauma Deakin et al. (J. trauma 2004) showed that end-tidal CO2 may be of value in predicting outcome from major trauma (19). 2013;118(1):192-201. doi:10.1097/ALN.0b013e318278c8b6

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Rural Doctors Net

AUGUST 30, 2013

Smart retrieval services have a presence in the Emergency Operations Centre and will be ‘on standby’ as the initial ambulance call comes through – a much more proactive approach than the usual sequence of calls from first responder-ambulance-local hospital-doctor-retrieval service. Emlyns on the PROMMT data.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

JANUARY 1, 2017

Neonatal observational scales have been validated in the intensive care and post-operative settings; ED-specific quantitative scales are lacking. CRIES ( Table 1 ) was validated for post-operative patients; to adapt its use for the ED, the most conservative approach is to substitute “preoperative baseline” with normal range for age.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

26 With regards to penetrating neck injuries, particularly those in which the platysma is violated, CTA of the neck has allowed a shift away from mandatory operative exploration of Zone 2 neck wounds (those in the mid-neck). However, IgE-mediated or not, anaphylactic shock is possible in either case. Am Surg 2013, 79 (1), 23-29.

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EB Medicine

JANUARY 2, 2019

Jeff: Perhaps most importantly, no history or physical alone can rule in or out an ectopic pregnancy, for that you’ll need testing and imaging or operative findings. This corresponds nicely to a 2013 retrospective study demonstrating a bHCG threshold for the fetal pole to be just below 1400. Jeff: Up first is the urine pregnancy test.

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EMDocs

JANUARY 16, 2025

Trajectory of Mortality and Health-Related Quality of Life Morbidity Following Community-Acquired Pediatric Septic Shock. doi: 10.1136/emermed-2013-202449. Epub 2013 Jul 14. Development and Validation of the Phoenix Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock. but PPV ranges from 25.1-39.5% 0.38 (95% CI 0.20-0.39)

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