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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Intensive Care Research , 1 (3-4), pp.60-64. This is referred to as CPR I nduced C onsciousness ( CPRIC ). Key take-home points While Ben’s case is tragic, we can learn important points about airway management. Pediatric Endotracheal Intubations for Airway Management in the Emergency Department.

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Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice

EM SIM Cases

He is a staff physian at McMaster Children’s Hospital, scholar with the McMaster Education Research, Innovation and Theory (MERIT) program and Founding Program Director for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine subspecialty residency program.

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The 70th Bubble Wrap – DFTB x MSc in PEM

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Every month we ask some of our friends from PERUKI (Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland) to point out something that has caught their eye. Also, the study was conducted in a centre where clinicians commonly use a bougie for airway management. Similarly, CPR-related injuries couldn’t be assessed for.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

In fact, the pressure delivered was limited to ~50 cm/H2O, relieving the excess, but holding that amount for CPR. Resuscitator : Wikipedia general article Emergency Care Research Institute [ECRI] Gas-Powered Resuscitators Hazard [Health Devices Nov 1988;17(11):352-4] **Good review of concerns re Demand Valves, then and now.

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SGEM#462: Spooky Scary Access – IV or IO for OHCA

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Missy has been teaching airway management for over a decade and is the creator of the Prehospital Emergency Airway Course which is taught throughout Washington State. After starting cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), you note pulseless electrical activity (PEA) on the monitor.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Advantages included: a good seal by a rescuer with a small mouth and a victim with a large mouth; excellent patency of the upper airway using head tilt and chin lift to tension the pharyngeal dilating muscles of the neck; gastric insufflation was less likely with the nasal cavities moderating the force of the airflow. Brown III, MD, Ali S.