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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?

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

RebelEM

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.

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Don’t Become Obsolete: The EM Physician’s Fight Against Procedural Decay

RebelEM

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.

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How To Use SALAD To Manage Unstable Epistaxis and the Airway

ACEP Now

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.

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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.

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Episode 6: Oxygenation

PHEM Cast

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.

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Episode 22 - Electrical Injuries in the Emergency Department An Evidence-Based Review

EB Medicine

Nachi: Each year, in the US, approximately 10,000 patients present with electrical burns or shocks. You’re probably familiar with this concept when you see high voltages arcing through the air without direct contact with the actual electrical source, leading to diffuse burns. Most electrical injuries present with burns to the skin.