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Intubation

PHEM Cast

Guidance documents College of Paramedics Statement on Intubation, available here. Positioning From: [link] Recommended Rich Levitan resources Podcast 70 – Airway Management with Rich Levitan Airway axes From: McGuire B, Hodge K. Resuscitation. Resuscitation. Tracheal intubation. 20(12);681-686.

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Proning for ARDS

Northwestern EM Blog

Hemodynamic instability and ongoing cardiac arrhythmias are a strong contraindication as chest access for cardiopulmonary resuscitation is limited (Koulouras et. Document thorough skin assessment every nursing shift, and inspect weight-bearing ventral surfaces. Reattach EKG leads to back. Tilt patient into reverse Trendelenburg.

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Impact of Emergency Department Crowding on Lung Protective Ventilation

RebelEM

What They Did: Retrospective, observational cohort study in a single high-volume academic hospital The ED had a 5 bed area used for ongoing management and resuscitation of patients who clinically deteriorate while boarding or while actively undergo a workup in other sections of the ED. J Crit Care.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

This is the fifth part of our series on "Early Modern Resuscitation." " Part I: Oral Airways, early resuscitation, and recognition of airway care. It was not a practical resuscitative aid until production could be commercially successful (~1895) and made portable in compressed form. Pulmotor is 1907.

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Episode 26 – Blunt Cardiac Injury: Emergency Department Diagnosis and Management (Trauma CME)

EB Medicine

Moreover, when airway management is needed, advanced airway techniques by ALS crews were associated with decreased odds of survival. Jeff: And if it does happen to be an ALS transport crew, without delaying transport, pain management with fentanyl is both safe and reasonable and preferred over morphine.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

This Blog episode concerns aspects of the concept of using the nose to obtain an airway or to ventilate emergency patients; it does not deal comprehensively with all aspects thereof that a specialist might do. Few people now remember that a strong early proposal in the move for expired air resuscitation was Mouth to Nose.