Airway Management Operations Wellness 
The Trauma Pro
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Much depends on local policies and procedures, training, as well as availability. Emergency physicians have more experience with airway management, sedation, and anesthesia and can thus add value to the process. This allows them to tailor the amputation to optimize the eventual recovery from this operation.
Pediatric EM Morsels
JULY 19, 2024
With that in mind, let’s review how to manage the post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage in children : Post-Tonsillectomy Hemorrhage : Management General Preparation Call for help… no time for your pride to get in the way! Get a hold of ENT early as OR management and/or admission are common. Well… sometimes it starts again.
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Don't Forget the Bubbles
MAY 24, 2023
Table 1: Airway assessment Can we predict a difficult pediatric airway? Even though there is no clear-cut answer, there are some risk factors that make a difficult airway more likely. Even with the best planning, you still may not anticipate the difficult airway. difficult intubations in neonates and infants.
EMDocs
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
2 Despite advances in imaging and surgical methods, overall mortality approaches 20%, which doubles to 40% with delays to definitive management exceeding than 24 hours. 6 Fluoroscopic esophagography: Reveals presence of as well as localizes perforation with 60% sensitivity for cervical perforations and 90% for intrathoracic perforations.
ACEP Now
MARCH 6, 2024
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. Many clinicians staffing emergency departments intubate infrequently, as well, and these results are likely applicable to a wide scope of practice.
EM Updates
MARCH 24, 2021
The primary tool for emergency airway management then became the traditional laryngoscope , a device little improved since the 1940s, until the advent of video laryngoscopy in the early 2000s which changed everything. HAVL , which uses a blade that goes around the tongue, requires that the operator look at the screen.
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. Re-oxygenation with BMV can increase airway-related adverse events (i.e.
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