RebelEM

AUGUST 7, 2023

This helps relieve agitation/pain while maintaining spontaneous breathing and airway reflexes allowing for adequate pre-oxygenation as well as facilitates other resuscitation interventions including IV access, vasopressors, fluids, etc. that would not be possible in an agitated/combative patient.

Head Injuries 94

Head Injuries Airway Management Outcomes Burns 94

Taming the SRU

JANUARY 1, 2024

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.

Emergency Department 91

Emergency Department Ultrasounds Administration Burns 91

ACEP Now

JULY 7, 2023

Per discussion with family over the phone it was determined she had mild dementia, but had been feeling well prior to her mechanical fall. 8,9 The SALAD maneuver was developed to overcome the challenges faced during intubation of a massively contaminated airway. Burns B, Habig K, Eason H, Ware S. References Prekker ME, et al.

Airway Management 45

Airway Management EMS Burns Operations 45

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Pediatric airway management is a skill that integrates the three types of knowledge as described by the ancient Greeks: episteme , or theoretical knowledge, techne , or technical knowledge, and phronesis , or practical wisdom, also called prudence. We often have limited information in critical situations. It is safe in head trauma.

Shock 40

Shock Sepsis Airway Management Pediatrics 40

Taming the SRU

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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?

CPR 89

CPR Burns Airway Management Wellness 89

RebelEM

JULY 20, 2023

EMS radios in for a burn patient and to anticipate a difficult airway. The patient is horribly burned. She was smoking with her home O2 on and has severe mixed partial and full thickness burns to the chest, neck, face, and airway. INTRODUCTION You’re moonlighting in a remote access hospital. Make it real.

EMS 72

EMS Burns Airway Management Wellness 72

PHEM Cast

MARCH 17, 2016

References Wilmalasena Y, Burns B, Reid C, Ware S., Preoxygenation and Prevention of Desaturation During Emergency Airway Management. video cast from Emergency Medicine colleagues in the States discussing and demonstrating techniques for optimal bag-valve-mask ventilation. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2015; 65(4): 371-376.

Airway Management 52

Airway Management Burns Emergency Department Resuscitation 52