The Skeptics' Guide to EM

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

The Paramedic 3 Trial: A randomized clinical trial of drug route in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 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. Date: November 10, 2024 Reference: Couper et al.

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ACEP Now

JANUARY 5, 2025

Additionally, one must be prepared for definitive airway management and know when laboratory investigations will prove valuable to guide further management. Resuscitation Begin by positioning the patient upright in their position of comfort to reduce the risk for aspiration and improve visualization of the bleeding site.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

APRIL 27, 2024

Reference: Tanner et al, A retrospective comparison of upper and lower extremity intraosseous access during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation. Reference: Tanner et al, A retrospective comparison of upper and lower extremity intraosseous access during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation. February 2024.

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Thinking Critical Care

MAY 20, 2023

Building on the energy and ethos that Philippe has curated in the Resuscitation side, I’m thrilled to bring a killer set of on-demand lectures and in-person content delivered by a top-notch, multi-disciplinary faculty. Montreal – both at the Heart Institute (core days) and my shop, Santa Cabrini Hospital (pre/post courses).

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Intraosseous Vascular Access Is Associated With Lower Survival and Neurologic Recovery Among Patients With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. His primary interests are resuscitation, prehospital critical care, airway management, and point-of-care ultrasound.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MARCH 2, 2019

Effect of a Strategy of a Supraglottic Airway Device
vs. Tracheal Intubation During Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest on Functional Outcome. The AIRWAYS-2 Randomized Clinical Trial. Effect of a Strategy of a Supraglottic Airway Device
vs. Tracheal Intubation During Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest on Functional Outcome.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MARCH 11, 2023

A Retrospective Nationwide Comparison of the iGel and King Laryngeal Tube Supraglottic Airways for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation. A Retrospective Nationwide Comparison of the iGel and King Laryngeal Tube Supraglottic Airways for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation.

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PulmCCM

JULY 3, 2023

But like many other trials before it, DEVICE can’t answer the question of how video vs direct laryngoscopy perform in the “real world,” i.e. by experienced intensivists and emergency physicians intubating at community hospitals (because clinical trials are almost never done there).

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Emergency Medicine Journal

JANUARY 22, 2024

This month’s update is by the Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine and University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. We used a multimodal search strategy, drawing on free open-access medical education resources and literature searches.

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PHEM Cast

MAY 3, 2020

Where trained and equipped to use level 3 PPE, this may be used where it will not cause a delay commence resuscitation where this is indicated by local clinical guidance. From the Resuscitation Council: Click here for more from the Resus Council on COVID-19. Just before you go … something to make you smile!

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RebelEM

AUGUST 7, 2023

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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EMDocs

OCTOBER 19, 2024

2][3] Management/Disposition ABCs and resuscitation if indicated Assessment for need of definitive airway is imperative as rate of intubation is high (38-100%) in various studies. [2][3][9] 2] Antibiotics Antibacterial management should be prompt and include broad-spectrum coverage, including MRSA. [2] Rev Infect Dis.

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ACEP Now

MARCH 6, 2024

Now, a randomized, controlled trial clearly demonstrates some patients with low GCS are far more likely to be harmed by an aggressive approach to airway management. Now, a randomized, controlled trial clearly demonstrates some patients with low GCS are far more likely to be harmed by an aggressive approach to airway management.

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PHEM Cast

APRIL 21, 2021

Positioning From: [link] Recommended Rich Levitan resources Podcast 70 – Airway Management with Rich Levitan Airway axes From: McGuire B, Hodge K. Resuscitation. Airway management by physician-staffed Helicopter Emergency Medical Services – a prospective, multicentre, observational study of 2,327 patients.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Authors: Katey DG Osborne, MD (EM Attending Physician; Tacoma, WA), Rachel Bridwell, MD (EM Attending Physician; Tacoma, WA) // Reviewed by: Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK, EM Attending Physician, UTSW / Parkland Memorial Hospital) and Brit Long, MD (@long_brit, EM Attending Physician, San Antonio, TX) Welcome to emDOCs revamp!

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JANUARY 25, 2020

His primary interests are resuscitation, critical care, airway management, and point-of-care ultrasound. His primary interests are resuscitation, critical care, airway management, and point-of-care ultrasound. Case: A 60-year-old male is in your emergency department with sepsis from pneumonia.

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Mind The Bleep

OCTOBER 17, 2024

What my elective entailed I undertook a four-week Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM) elective with the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity. I was able to see what they were able to do compared to other paramedic crews, such as airway management with endotracheal tubes and administering drugs like ketamine.

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EM SIM Cases

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Most hospitals have a critical care outreach or rapid response team that can be activated in these cases. Case Summary 57-year-old female with known history of myasthenia gravis and thymoma is admitted to hospital 48 hours prior for CAP and started on Ceftriaxone and Azithromycin. Download Case Here: Download Case

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Mind The Bleep

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Therefore, they require fluid resuscitation to restore blood pressure, correct the ketonemia and electrolyte abnormalities, and oliguria. patient is becoming drowsy), seek anaesthetic assistance straight away for airway management. For shocked patients fluid resuscitation should begin as quickly as possible.

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EM SIM Cases

MARCH 14, 2023

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. She’s also a keen and recognized medical educator within the department.

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ACEP Now

JULY 7, 2023

Otolaryngology (ENT) was emergently consulted and the patient was brought to a resuscitation bay because of worry concerning possible aspiration secondary to posterior epistaxis, requiring further airway stabilization. Assuming a difficult airway, both a video laryngoscope and cricothyroidotomy kit were prepared at bedside.

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RebelEM

MARCH 27, 2023

2 Finally the settings initiated early in a patient’s care are often carried forward unchanged into their hospital and ICU stay. Hospitals should focus on both systemic factors and bedside physician and/or respiratory therapist interventions to increase LPV utilization in times of ED boarding and crowding for all patients. J Crit Care.

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Thinking Critical Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Montreal, May 19th-21st, 2022, at the Montreal Heart Institute Conference Center (19th-20th) and Santa Cabrini Hospital (21st)! One thing, however, that is without a doubt, is that we will put together some amazing content in a unique, hybrid format that will have everyone leave with a few more concepts and skills. Where & When?

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

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.

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EMDocs

JUNE 7, 2023

Airway management should not be delayed. 7 Airway management: consider early airway management. Case Follow-up: The patient required benzodiazepine administration for seizure management and subsequent intubation for airway protection.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

MARCH 1, 2017

How much force is required to dislodge an alternate airway? An update on out-of-hospital airway management practices in the United States. Resuscitation. Successful tracheal intubation through an intubating laryngeal airway in pediatric patients with airway hemorrhage. Resuscitation.

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Taming the SRU

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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? ETT onto a fiberoptic scope.

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EMDocs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Treatment significantly shortens the duration of illness, and early initiation of therapy can prevent severe complications and reduce the length of hospitalization. However, some experts recommend doxycycline even in pregnant patients. pregnant patients).

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 3, 2023

Also, the study was conducted in a centre where clinicians commonly use a bougie for airway management. Clinically Relevant Bottom Line: Using a bougie as a safe alternative for airway management in children when clinicians have experience. Resuscitation. O’Connell KJ, Sandler A, Dutta A, et al.

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EB Medicine

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Thankfully, that gentleman was successfully resuscitated despite no bystander CPR, and if you listen carefully, we hope to arm you with the tools to do so similarly. It was peer reviewed by Dr. O’Keefe and Dr. Silverberg from Florida State University College of Medicine and Kings County Hospital, respectively. That’s -- high.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Preface: In January 2015, this blog provided resources for Emergencies of the Third Trimester , however, we did not separately discuss airway management in third trimester pregnancy. In rural Critical Access Hospitals, or austere conditions, you may be all that is available. What’s different about late-gravidity airways?

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MARCH 27, 2015

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.

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