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Impact of Emergency Department Crowding on Lung Protective Ventilation

RebelEM

First ED-based study to evaluate how operational effects such as crowding can affect patient care in the form of LPV Included ARDS criteria relating to the usage of LPV in the ED allowing evaluation as to whether patients with ARDS were more likely to receive LPV settings. Prior studies have used annual census or shift level crowding.

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Assume the position … ??Awkward Airway Positions

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Pull out the manikins (or use a volunteer; BVM only) and run some awkward codes! Most airway management is done with the patient supine and on a table. Importantly, you should practice airway support and BVM facing the patient "from the south" (facing cephalad). Pediatric Airway Management.

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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. Jeff: Exactly.

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

It wrongly frightened some medical personnel as it was operated by a 50 psi wall source or from a step-down regulator from a tank (some thought the patient received wall 50 psi or 1500 psig from the tank directly to the lung. Accessed July 28, 2014 **Quoting original documents of fascinating history. Grainge, C. Copass, M. Van Dun, P.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

They also proved that only expired air resuscitation guaranteed sufficient inflation volumes; that exhaled air was a suitable resuscitating gas; and that the operator would have continuous feedback from each breath. Raja, MD, MBA, MPH Trauma Airway Management J Emerg Med. Advances in prehospital airway management.