Critical Care Now

APRIL 5, 2022

The data was collected from 2007 until 2015, analyzed from 2015 until 2019, and then published in 2019. Since then, their recommendations are quickly becoming the ubiquitous standard of care for prehospital TBI management. If indicated aggressive BLS airway management with positive pressure ventilation (PPV) is appropriate.

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PulmCCM

APRIL 18, 2024

Anesthesiology residents literally stop counting, generally performing well over a thousand intubations in a four-year residency (compared to pulmonary-critical care fellows’ mere nine months total in the ICU on a traditional research/clinical split), including extensive experience on difficult airways and advanced airway management.

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ETM Course

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Care Injured 46 (2015) 42–44 (As of Feb 28th 2015 – available full-text free) The goal of treatment for traumatic pneumothoraces is pleural decompression, not placement of a tube. Checklist use is becoming more common in Emergency Departments in Australia, particularly for airway management and rapid sequence intubation.

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PHEM Cast

APRIL 21, 2021

Positioning From: [link] Recommended Rich Levitan resources Podcast 70 – Airway Management with Rich Levitan Airway axes From: McGuire B, Hodge K. 2015 Oct 23;10(10):e0141034. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 23, 57 (2015). Guidance documents College of Paramedics Statement on Intubation, available here.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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. McGraw-Hill Education; 2015. Am J Emerg Med. 2022;53:29-36. doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2021.12.017

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PHEM Cast

MARCH 17, 2016

2015; 65(4): 371-376. Preoxygenation and Prevention of Desaturation During Emergency Airway Management. Apneic oxygenation was associated with decreased desaturation rates during rapid sequence intubation by an Australian helicopter emergency medicine service. Annals of Emergency Medicine. Weingart SD, Levitan RM.

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Northwestern EM Blog

MARCH 1, 2025

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. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 32(6): 687.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

JULY 9, 2015

How versatile are your airway skills? 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). A Tight Squeeze Airway management for the limited-access patient. NREMT (2008).

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EMDocs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It is particularly useful in cases of physically difficult airway management, such as in patients with obesity, limited neck mobility, or cervical spine immobilization. Incidence and factors associated with cardiac arrest complicating emergency airway management. The Physiologically Difficult Airway.

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Taming the SRU

JANUARY 1, 2024

Establishing reliable vascular access is absolutely critical for ED patients requiring resuscitation, airway management, or medication administration. 2015 Feb;78(2):295–9. J Emerg Med. 2010 Oct;39(4):468–75. Pasley J, Miller CHT, DuBose JJ, Shackelford SA, Fang R, Boswell K, et al. J Trauma Acute Care Surg.

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EB Medicine

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Thankfully, fatalities are declining, with just 565 in 2015. As always, it’s ABC and IV, O2, monitor first with early airway management in those with head and neck burns being a top priority. Thankfully, fatalities are declining, with just 565 in 2015. Jeff: Let’s move on to evaluation in the emergency department.

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EB Medicine

MARCH 1, 2019

Moreover, when airway management is needed, advanced airway techniques by ALS crews were associated with decreased odds of survival. Jeff: Operative management, specifically ED thoracotomy is a heavily debated topic, and it’s next on our list to discuss.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 24, 2023

Table 1: Airway assessment Can we predict a difficult pediatric airway? Even though there is no clear-cut answer, there are some risk factors that make a difficult airway more likely. The Difficult Airway Society (DAS) published guidelines for difficult pediatric airways in children age one to eight back in 2015.

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Taming the SRU

MARCH 3, 2025

Upper Airway Injury to the upper airway, defined as airway structures proximal to the glottis (i.e. Because inhalational injuries often co-occur with large cutaneous burns, aggressive fluid resuscitation can rapidly worsen upper airway edema making airway management especially challenging. PMID: 4073365.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MARCH 27, 2015

Buffington] NTI largely supplanted by RSI: Current resuscitation practice focuses on the oral route for airway management and intubation. Raja, MD, MBA, MPH Trauma Airway Management J Emerg Med. Advances in prehospital airway management. Sukhupragarn, “ Airway Management ,” In: P. Rogue Medic.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Preface: In January 2015, this blog provided resources for Emergencies of the Third Trimester , however, we did not separately discuss airway management in third trimester pregnancy. Because of the grave concerns of airway management, difficult airway, and aspiration common to third-trimester pregnancy.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

doi:10.1136/bcr-2015-213897 Paterson AW, Ryan W, Rao-Mudigonda VV. Neurotransmitter. 2015;2:10-14800/nt. doi:10.14800/nt.491 1992;359(6398):832-835. doi:10.1038/359832a0 Giannini L, Maccari A, Chiesa V, Canevini MP. Trismus, the first symptom in a challenging diagnosis of Tetanus. BMJ Case Rep. 2016;2016:bcr2015213897. A report of a case.

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