Don't Forget the Bubbles

JUNE 17, 2024

Riskin (2015) showed that rudeness accounted for a 12% reduction in diagnostic and procedural performance in a simulated resuscitation. A third RCT demonstrated that even brief low-level incivility could increase the risk of major error during CPR by up to 66%. 2015 May;30:656-74. 2015 Sep 1;136(3):487-95. BMC medicine.

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AED Leader

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

When buying an AED, consider ease of use, maintenance costs, and features like CPR guidance. With simple operation and minimal maintenance requirements, these AEDs are designed for ease of use – even for non-medical folks! Simple to operate, and it won’t hit your budget as hard as you might think. They might seem high.

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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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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Safar's work, in a series of studies and papers, validated manual methods of opening the airway, in use by anesthesiologists but relatively unknown outside the operating room, as effective and able to be taught and used by lay people. Safar, the early years 1924–1961, the birth of CPR." In collaboration with Asmund S. Baskett, P.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 26, 2023

REVERT trial (adults); Appelboam et al, Lancet 2015 showed that by modifying the traditional valsalva manoeuvre to be done semi-recumbent with a passive leg raise immediately afterwards increased the success from 17% cardioversion to 43%. Mum (first aid trained) gave back blows and started CPR.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

APRIL 1, 2017

Be ready to perform CPR. Children 1 year and up, unconscious – CPR: start CPR with chest compressions (do not perform a pulse check). Steady the operating hand by placing your hypothenar eminence on the child’s zygoma or temporal scalp, to avoid jutting the instrument into the ear canal with sudden movement. 2008.01.013.

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EB Medicine

MARCH 1, 2019

In one RCT, the FAST exam reduced the time from arrival in the ED to operative care by 64% in the setting of trauma. Nachi: This is all well and good, and certainly accurate, but let’s not forget that hemodynamically unstable trauma patients, like those with myocardial rupture, need to be in the operating room, not the CT scanner.

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