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We’ll keep it short, while you keep that EM brain sharp. 2018 Oct-Dec;55(4):258-264. A 52-year-old male with a history of essential hypertension presents to your South Texas ED for his second visit this week complaining of indolent fever, shortness of breath, pleuritic chest pain, and a rash on his trunk and extremities.
Well keep it short, while you keep that EM brain sharp. A 73-year-old female is brought in by EMS for abdominal pain, vomiting, and weakness for two days. If sepsis or septic shock is present, aggressive fluid resuscitation and empiric antibiotics covering intra-abdominal flora should be administered. Cureus, 15(7), e41705.
James Broselow, a family medicine-turned-emergency medicine physician from Hickory, North Carolina , recognized that his team spent a lot of time trying to calculate doses of medications rather than spending their mental energy on the actual medical decisions for the resuscitation. This system has now become the “ industry standard.”
To celebrate the end of trauma season ( is it ever really over? ), we here at the Ped EM Morsels Bakery have cooked up a morsel to remind you that pediatric trauma can be even more difficult than you think. 2018 Oct;14(2):47-54. Epub 2018 Oct 31. Never fear. Alpha 1 agonists are necessary to maintain appropriate blood pressure.
The ECG in Figure-1 — was obtained on the scene by EMS ( E mergency M edical S ervices ). Unfortunately the patient arrested before catheterization could be completed — and could not be resuscitated. The patient was a man in his 90s, who ~1 hour earlier, noted the onset of severe CP ( C hest P ain ).
3 A three-pronged management approach provides a framework for addressing post-tonsillectomy bleeds: resuscitation, early ENT consultation with transport arrangements, and temporizing measures applied to control bleeding. Special thanks to Dr. Kevin Wasko, guest expert on the EM Cases podcast on this topic, who inspired this column.
emergency medicine (EM) residency training length has been a decades-long dilemma: four vs. three years. First, is three years enough time to become an EM physician? But critical questions remain unanswered when it comes to specialization, career trajectory, and actual competence as an EM physician. 11 What should we take away?
Of course, we all have a healthy respect for post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage and we like to talk about Damage Control Resuscitation. Carneiro de Moura, 2018 ] Seen in 57% of cohort. Banc-Husu, 2023 ; Luoto, 2020; Carneiro de Moura, 2018 ] Basics are best (always)! 2018 Sep;67(3):371-376. Keep patient comfortable.
The post Ep 110 Airway Pitfalls – Live from EMU 2018 appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases. It is challenging to integrate all this new information into a seamless flow when faced with a challenging airway situation.
J Invest Surg Sept 2018; PMID: 28952826 Robb J. lactate-targeted fluid resuscitation on regional, microcirculatory and hypoxia-related perfusion parameters in septic shock: a randomized controlled trial. .” Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency MedicineAPICE: Oct 1005; PMID: 16356246 Bilgili B, et al. Rudski LG, et al.
Authors: Christian Gerhart, MD (EM Resident Physician, Washington University in St. Louis); Dr. Jessica Pelletier, DO (EM Attending Physician, Washington University in St. You receive a page for a cardiac arrest and take report from emergency medical services (EMS). Per EMS he was very cold to touch.
17,18 Given this, the advent of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) presents an opportunity to bridge care between traditional resuscitation of refractory VF patients in the ED and more definitive management in the catheterization lab. Heart disease and stroke statistics—2018 update: A report from the American Heart Association.
Clinical Take Home Point: In adult patients with trauma at risk of massive transfusion, receiving standard trauma resuscitation management, the addition of 4F-PCC did not result in a decrease in blood product consumption over 24 hours compared to placebo. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2018. Severe acute traumatic coagulopathy = PT >1.5
[display_podcast] Date: September 21st, 2018 Reference: Kawano et al. Annals of EM May 2018 Guest Skeptic: Andrew Merelman is a critical care paramedic and first year medical student at Rocky Vista University in Colorado. display_podcast] Date: September 21st, 2018 Reference: Kawano et al.
In addition, a flimsy cannula is easily dislodged during ongoing resuscitation and easily clots off. This was a randomised controlled multisite study comparing resuscitation of trauma patients requiring massive transfusion using either 1:1::1 or 1:1:2 ratios of platelets to plasma to red blood cells. to −0.5%]; P = 0.03.).
Date: December 6th , 2018 Reference: Perkins et al. Date: December 6th , 2018 Reference: Perkins et al. You are the first provider on scene with Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and start high-quality Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). published in Resuscitation 2011. He is unsuccessfully shocked.
Early expeditious definitive hemorrhage control is a major focus in trauma resuscitation. Emergency Department Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta in Trauma Patients With Exsanguinating Hemorrhage: The UK-REBOA Randomized Clinical Trial [published online ahead of print, 2023 Oct 12]. J Spec Oper Med.
A Retrospective Nationwide Comparison of the iGel and King Laryngeal Tube Supraglottic Airways for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation. A Retrospective Nationwide Comparison of the iGel and King Laryngeal Tube Supraglottic Airways for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation. Date: March 8, 2023 Reference: Smida et al.
JAMA 2018 Guest Skeptic: Missy Carter, former City of Bremerton Firefighter/Paramedic, currently a physician assistant practicing in emergency medicine in the Seattle area and an adjunct faculty […] The post SGEM#247: Supraglottic Airways Gonna Save You for an OHCA? JAMA 2018 * Population: Adults who had a non-traumatic OCHA.
What They Did Single-center randomized controlled study design performed by the Department of Hepatology & Liver transplantation in New Delhi Study participants, investigator clinicians, data collectors, and data analysts were blinded Investigators recruited participants from February 27, 2016 – March 3, 2018.
Missy is also now the director for Difficult Airway EMS course in Washington State Case: An EMS crew arrives to your emergency department (ED) with a 58-year-old female who suffered a witnessed ventricular fibrillation (VF) out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Background: We have covered OHCA multiple times on the SGEM.
[display_podcast] Date: August 22nd, 2018 Reference: Riskin A, Erez A, Foulk TA, et al. display_podcast] Date: August 22nd, 2018 Reference: Riskin A, Erez A, Foulk TA, et al. Case: You are working in the emergency department (ED) and have just been involved in a difficult case in the resuscitation room. Pediatrics. Pediatrics.
[display_podcast] Date: February 14th, 2018 Reference: Venkatesh S et al. NEJM January 2018. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Rory Spiegel (@EMNerd_) is a clinical instructor at University of Maryland, a recent graduate of Stony Brook’s Resuscitation Fellowship, and a current Critical Care fellow at University of Maryland. NEJM January 2018.
In anticipation of EM Cases Episode 110 Airway Pitfalls Live from EMU 2018 with Scott Weingart, we have Dr. Shira Brown tell her Best Case Ever of a pediatric trauma patient who required a cricothyrotomy.
Resuscitation with blood products in patients with trauma-related haemorrhagic shock receiving prehospital care (RePHILL): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial. Background: The use of fluids in trauma resuscitation has been studied in a number of trials in recent years. What do you advise him?
Authors: Sameer Desai, MD (EM Attending Physician, University of Kentucky); Omar Abbas Ahmed Malik, MBBS (Patients’ Aid Foundation, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center) // Reviewed by: Jessica Pelletier, DO (EM Education Fellow, Washington University School of Medicine in St. References: Powers WJ, Rabinstein AA, Ackerson T, et al.
[display_podcast] Date: February 14th, 2018 Reference: Alam N et al. Case: EMS is dispatched to a retirement […] The post SGEM#207: Ahh (Don’t) Push It – Pre-Hospital IV Antibiotics for Sepsis. display_podcast] Date: February 14th, 2018 Reference: Alam N et al. Case: EMS is dispatched to a retirement home.
emergency medicine (EM) residency training length has been a decades-long dilemma: four versus three years. First, is three years enough time to become an EM physician? But critical questions remain unanswered when it comes to specialization, career trajectory, and actual competence as an EM physician. percent versus 90.8
Fluid resuscitation should be initiated. Stable Patients For both stable and resuscitated patients, high-dose IV proton pump inhibitor therapy (i.e., 13 A 2018 meta-analysis found that terlipressin is comparable with somatostatin, octreotide, and vasopressin in the control of bleeding. 2018:36(4):689-698. Am J Emerg Med.
This could have biased the results in favor of amiodarone as we’ve covered this before on REBEL EM before The IV amiodarone group required less additional HR control agents to control increased heart rate. 2018, PMID: 30571262 Gritsenko, Diana, et al. 2018, PMID: 30571262 Gritsenko, Diana, et al. 2, 2018, pp.
Due to its extremely high morbidity and mortality as well as high healthcare costs, the prompt recognition, diagnosis and resuscitation of shock is key. And for most forms, EM physicians are not typically shocked by shock. 2018; 44(5): 652-655. 2018; 22(1):215. Sources: 1) Amrein K, Martucci G, and Hahner S. 3) Farkas J.
PMID: 34904190 Not surprisingly, this paper has been covered by basically everyone who talks about research, so if you want to hear some other opinions, check out the SGEM , REBEL EM , or St. 2018 Sep 11;362:k3843. Aggressive or Moderate Fluid Resuscitation in Acute Pancreatitis. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k3843. N Engl J Med.
Submitted and written by Destiny Folk MD , peer reviewed by Meyers, Smith, Grauer, McLaren A man in his early 30s with no significant past medical history was brought to the ED by EMS after being found unresponsive by a friend. EMS arrived and found him awake and alert. Fluid resuscitation was initiated. 72; Issue 9; 2018.
A 44 year-old male with unknown past medical history came by emergency medical services (EMS) to the emergency department (ED) for an electrical injury and fall from a high voltage electrical pole. Per EMS, the patient was found at the bottom of a high voltage line with diffuse burns and amputation of his left forearm. Emerg Med Pract.
As stated above, resuscitation included epinephrine, calcium, and bicarb. His neurologic exam was excellent given reported 20-30 minutes of intra-arrest resuscitation. He had been given 3 grams Ca gluconate by EMS. This ECG is too bizarre to be anything other than end-stage hyperkalemia. After ROSC achieved: Sinus rhythm.
Read about Fascicular VT here: Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardias for the EM Physician Case Continued He was completely stable, so adenosine was administered. Meyers, Smith; Weingart wrote an extensive review on Idiopathic VT in the September 14, 2018 post of Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog. My Comment at the bottom of this Sept.
And sepsis-3 redefined septic shock as “hypotension not responsive to fluid resuscitation” with the added requirement of vasopressors to maintain a MAP greater than or equal to 65 and with a lactate > 2. Jeff : I’m an EMS fellow, what can I say… Anyway, on to my favorite section -- prehospital care. So quite a few changes!
of emergency medicine residents report 1 or more dimensions of burnout (Lin Annals Emerg Med 2019) Moral Injury with COVID “We pushed aside our fear and frustration to focus on saving the patients in front of us; we kept our eyes open, and our feelings closed.
Thankfully, that gentleman was successfully resuscitated despite no bystander CPR, and if you listen carefully, we hope to arm you with the tools to do so similarly. In total, they pulled references from 1966 until 2018. Nachi: Fluid resuscitation with isotonic fluids is the standard -- again -- with a goal urine output of 1-1.5
CT is good but you really should learn ultrasound, and lastly, sick patients need prompt consultation and resuscitation, not rapid trips to radiology. Most EM training programs certainly emphasize the importance of the the pelvic exam for women with lower abdominal pain, but some recent papers have questioned its role.
EMS found the patient in VFib and performed ACLS for 26 minutes then obtained ROSC. 12 minutes later, the patient went back into VFib arrest and underwent another 15 minutes of resuscitation followed by successful defibrillation and sustained ROSC. In total, he received approximately 40 minutes of CPR and 7 defibrillation attempts.
Interestingly, one retrospective study found limited agreement between EMS records and hospital documentation on current DOAC usage. Jeff: For all agents, regardless of the DOAC, the initial resuscitation follows the standard principles of hemorrhage control and trauma resuscitation. Nachi: So I think that rounds out testing.
I’m Jeff Nusbaum, and I’m back with my co-host, Nachi Gupta and we’ll be taking you through the September 2018 issue of Emergency Medicine Practice - Emergency Department Management of North American Snake envenomations. If EMS has placed bandages, leave them in place until antivenom and resuscitative equipment is ready.
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