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Supraglottic Airways

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

How much force is required to dislodge an alternate airway? An update on out-of-hospital airway management practices in the United States. 2014 Jul;85(7):885-92. Successful tracheal intubation through an intubating laryngeal airway in pediatric patients with airway hemorrhage. 2014 Apr;112(4):742-8.

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Proning for ARDS

Northwestern EM Blog

Relative contraindications are several, including difficulty with airway management, facial trauma, ventricular assist device, intra-aortic balloon pump, severe chest wall lesions or rib fractures, massive hemoptysis, unstable pelvic or long bone fractures, and open abdominal wounds. 2013; Mi et. Pelosi P, Brazzi L, Gattinoni L.

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emDOCs Revamp: Esophageal Perforation

EMDocs

Authors: Katey DG Osborne, MD (EM Attending Physician; Tacoma, WA), Rachel Bridwell, MD (EM Attending Physician; Tacoma, WA) // Reviewed by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK, EM Attending Physician, UTSW / Parkland Memorial Hospital) and Brit Long, MD (@long_brit, EM Attending Physician, San Antonio, TX) Welcome to emDOCs revamp!

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Don’t Become Obsolete: The EM Physician’s Fight Against Procedural Decay

RebelEM

INTRODUCTION You’re moonlighting in a remote access hospital. EMS radios in for a burn patient and to anticipate a difficult airway. She was smoking with her home O2 on and has severe mixed partial and full thickness burns to the chest, neck, face, and airway. You can hear the tension in their voice. Human Performance.

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emDOCs Revamp: Alcohol Withdrawal

EMDocs

Management of drug and alcohol withdrawal. Outpatient management of alcohol withdrawal syndrome. Inpatient management of acute alcohol withdrawal syndrome. 2014; 28(5): 401-410. This series provides evidence-based updates to previous posts so you can stay current with what you need to know. Muncie H, Yasinian Y, Oge L.

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Glasgow Coma Scale in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

Consider other indicators of need for airway management, such as gag reflex. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306851. Epub 2014 Sep 8. 2014 Oct;29(10):1299-304. Epub 2014 Feb 13. GCS scores are validated in trauma populations , but it has its limitations in the medical populations. It’s complicated.

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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

Don't Forget the Bubbles

A retrospective cohort analysis of the ED portion of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey from 2006 to 2009 in the US revealed that less than one-half of patients undergoing ETI in the ED received sedative drugs while in the ED. Pediatric Endotracheal Intubations for Airway Management in the Emergency Department.