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2024 Emergency Medicine Research Highlights: Forced Air, Sepsis, and More

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The PREOXI trial compared oxygen mask pre-oxygenation versus noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NIPPV) in patients requiring intubation in emergency departments (EDs) and intensive care units. Effect of noninvasive airway management of comatose patients with acute poisoning: a randomized clinical trial.

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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

Don't Forget the Bubbles

You are the Paediatric doctor on call and receive a call for an incoming patient to the emergency department. Tragically, several attempts at resuscitation upon arrival at the emergency department were unsuccessful. Intensive Care Research , 1 (3-4), pp.60-64. Ann Emerg Med. His name is Ben. Burgart, A.M.

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Bougie: First Pass or Rescue Device?

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A 68-year-old man presents to the emergency department (ED) with altered mental status and fever. Is the Evidence from This Research Sufficient to Change Practice? These limitations are sufficient to question the recommendation to use a bougie as first line airway management. Ann Emerg Med. 2023;42(6):445-9.

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Fourteen Emergency Medicine Research Gems from 2023

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Every year, the volume of published research continues to outpace capacity to consume. The Sisyphean task remains to try to keep up—and, in that vein—here is a light round of the emergency medicine literature from 2023. Effect of noninvasive airway management of comatose patients with acute poisoning: a randomized clinical trial.

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Glasgow Coma Scale in Children

Pediatric EM Morsels

Consider other indicators of need for airway management, such as gag reflex. Borgialli DA, Mahajan P, Hoyle JD Jr, Powell EC, Nadel FM, Tunik MG, Foerster A, Dong L, Miskin M, Dayan PS, Holmes JF, Kuppermann N; Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). Acad Emerg Med. Ann Emerg Med.

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Xylazine: “Zombie Drug” is an Emerging Threat

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CASE A 30-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with left arm pain from a chronic wound. Initial stabilization includes airway management and circulatory support. Currently, there is no FDA-approved pharmacotherapy for either the reversal of xylazine in humans or the management of withdrawal.

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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. 468 paediatric patients were intubated in this timeframe.

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