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

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In a prospective study comparing clinician gestalt against systemic inflammatory response syndrome, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), quick SOFA, Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS), and a logistic regression machine learning model using Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO), the obvious winner was the clinician.

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Fourteen Emergency Medicine Research Gems from 2023

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The Right Way to Airway Video largyngoscopy (VL) is simply, in most situations, the better tool for the job. 7 The operators involved in the trial were mostly emergency medicine residents or critical care fellows, but this fact does not diminish the generalizability of these observations. N Engl J Med. 2023;389(5):418-429.

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Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Inhalation Injuries

Taming the SRU

Upper Airway Injury to the upper airway, defined as airway structures proximal to the glottis (i.e. Because inhalational injuries often co-occur with large cutaneous burns, aggressive fluid resuscitation can rapidly worsen upper airway edema making airway management especially challenging.

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The Nose: the other route to the lungs

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Overlapping categories include the nasal natural airway; expiratory airway obstruction in sleep and resuscitation; Mouth to Nose resuscitation; airway adjuncts that traverse the nasal passage; intubation via the nasal route whether “blind” (auditory, tactile), visualized by laryngoscope or other optical/video/endoscopic device.