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CICM Second Part Exam Practice SAQs 22082024

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Outline the initial assessment of severe burns injury, including how you will calculate fluid resuscitation requirements. Outline the key considerations for the early post-operative ICU care of a patient who had open surgery for Type A aortic dissection. Operative course? (50%) Oxygen saturation targets in critical care Q2.

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Early Modern Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Although told several times, the story of the development by Henning Ruben of the prototypical modern manual resuscitator, the self-refilling bag with unidirectional non-rebreathing valves which now dominate the world of resuscitation, is still not well-known. Czech Military resuscitation kit, 1969, mfr.

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emDOCs Revamp: Esophageal Perforation

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6 Treatment : Airway Definitive airway management should be performed in those with respiratory distress with attention to appropriate resuscitation started beforehand in the setting of potential distributive shock from mediastinitis. 4 Fluid resuscitation and vasopressor use as appropriate. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014.

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Multisystem Trauma in Children, Part Two: Massive Transfusion, Trauma Imaging, and Resuscitative Pearls

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Resuscitative Pearls Our goal here is damage control. Otherwise, resuscitate, identify the bleeding source, and slow or stop the bleeding with blood products or surgery. How Children are Different in Trauma In adults, we speak of “permissive hypotension” (also called “balanced resuscitation” or “damage control resuscitation”).

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Multisystem Trauma in Children, Part One: Airway, Chest Tubes, and Resuscitative Thoracotomy

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Resuscitative Thoracotomy in Children In a 40-year review of ED thoracotomy, Moore et al. 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. 2014 Apr;133(4):e1104-16.

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Episode 19: Surgical Airway

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Cricothyrotomy performed with the Melker set or the QuickTrach kit: procedure times, learning curves and operators’ preference. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine , 21 , 43. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine , 21 , 59. link] Buonopane, C. Sottile, D.,

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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

The latter 1950s and 1960s, quested for nerve gas defense studying expired air resuscitation and modern resuscitology; developing intensive care units. To me, it harkens a new scientific renaissance of resuscitation science, emergency care, and creating systems for care. 1950s & 1960s Resuscitation Research.