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AIR – Learning from the Airway Registry (November 2023)

Greater Sydney Area HEMS

Sydney HEMs is proud of its commitment to excellence in airway management. To view these videos, you will need this password: AiRblogVideos The AiR blog posts come from the amazing brain of Dr Clare Hayes-Bradley and the Airway Registry Audit team, via the fingertips of Dr Natalie May.

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Ep 124 Burn and Inhalation Injuries: ED Wound Care, Resuscitation and Airway Management

Emergency Medicine Cases

It turns out that for all burn patients—from minor to severe—there is a lot of room for improvement in ED management, counselling and disposition. The post Ep 124 Burn and Inhalation Injuries: ED Wound Care, Resuscitation and Airway Management appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.

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Major burns in adults: a practice review

Emergency Medicine Journal

There are approximately 180 000 deaths per year from thermal burn injury worldwide. Most burn injuries can be treated in local hospitals but 6.5% require specialist burn care. The management of these patients in the resuscitation room impacts on the effectiveness of continuing care in the intensive care unit.

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Chung – Environmental Injuries: Burns, Electrical, Altitude, Heat Stroke

University of Maryland CC Project

Edward Hebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences presents on Environmental Injuries including burns, electrical, altitude and heat stroke. Dr. Kevin Chung, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, and professor of Surgery, at the F.

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Grand Rounds Recap 9.6.23

Taming the SRU

ultrasound grand rounds: bedside dvt studies - family presence in the ed/icu - r1 clinical knowledge: aicd - r3 small groups: difficult airway management Ultrasound grand rounds: DVT studies WITH Dr. minges Why should we perform bedside DVT studies in the ED? ETT onto a fiberoptic scope.

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REBEL Cast Ep122 – Delayed vs Rapid Sequence Intubation in Agitated Trauma Patients

RebelEM

What They Did: Prospective randomized clinical trial Patients randomized to: Delayed Sequence Intubation (DSI): IV ketamine 1.5mg/kg in 0.5 What They Did: Prospective randomized clinical trial Patients randomized to: Delayed Sequence Intubation (DSI): IV ketamine 1.5mg/kg in 0.5

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Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Vascular Access in the Emergency Department

Taming the SRU

Establishing reliable vascular access is absolutely critical for ED patients requiring resuscitation, airway management, or medication administration. Contraindications for USGIV are the same as for any PIV: overlying skin infection, AV fistula in the extremity, previous surgery impacting vasculature, proximal trauma, or burns.