EMDocs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Improved Visualization: Video laryngoscopes allow for the use of standard or hyperangulated geometry, essentially allowing the operator to “look around the corner” on an anterior airway. Incidence and factors associated with cardiac arrest complicating emergency airway management. Resuscitation 2013; 84(11): 1500 – 4.

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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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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

JULY 9, 2015

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). You may be assisting an airway manager (who's in the vertex position) who needs extra jaw thrust or lift. McClusky, S.,

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RebelEM

MARCH 27, 2023

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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EB Medicine

MARCH 1, 2019

Moreover, when airway management is needed, advanced airway techniques by ALS crews were associated with decreased odds of survival. In one RCT, the FAST exam reduced the time from arrival in the ED to operative care by 64% in the setting of trauma. for pericardial effusion. Jeff: Not only is US accurate, it’s also quick.

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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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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 3, 2023

This could be explained by less experienced personnel dealing with the paediatric airway. Because of the retrospective nature of the study, the decision to use the bougie was operator-dependent. Also, the study was conducted in a centre where clinicians commonly use a bougie for airway management. Resuscitation.

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Taming the SRU

MARCH 3, 2025

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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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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