Emergency Medicine Cases

AUGUST 24, 2021

Just as pediatric patients are not small adults, geriatric patients are not just old adults. How should we adjust airway management for the older trauma patient? What is the utility of the Shock Index in older patients? What is the utility of the Shock Index in older patients? and many more.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

MARCH 1, 2017

Comparative Efficacy of the Air-Q Intubating Laryngeal Airway during General Anesthesia in Pediatric Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Black AE, Flynn PE, Smith HL, Thomas ML, Wilkinson KA; Association of Pediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. Pediatr Emerg Care. 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?

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

JULY 9, 2015

How versatile are your airway skills? 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). Resuscitation, 56(1), 83-89. Pediatric Laryngospasm. Pediatric Airway Management.

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EMDocs

OCTOBER 19, 2024

CT scans are typically not recommended in pediatric patients, but can be useful in adults with concern for tracheal stenosis or recurrent tracheitis, however airway stabilization takes precedence. [2][3] 3] Differential Epiglottitis can also present with fever, upper airway obstruction, and toxic appearance. Hospital Pediatrics.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Tragically, several attempts at resuscitation upon arrival at the emergency department were unsuccessful. While some studies showed that CPRIC is associated with increased survival to hospital discharge, administering muscle relaxants during resuscitation increased mortality. Another attempt led to an oesophageal intubation.

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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. Pulmotor is 1907.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

MAY 3, 2023

Insulin Infusion Dosing in Pediatric Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. The Pediatric Bougie for the First Tracheal Intubation Attempt in Critically Ill Children [published online ahead of print, 2023 Feb 23]. Resuscitation. Which way should we go? Crit Care Explor.

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EM SIM Cases

MARCH 14, 2023

This primer on Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice was written by academic pediatric emergency medicine specialist and simulation guru Dr. Quang Ngo. The Problem Sam is on faculty at an academic pediatric residency program with an interest in simulation enhanced education.

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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. Effect of noninvasive airway management of comatose patients with acute poisoning: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA Pediatr.2023;177(8):782.

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Pediatric Emergency Playbook

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Pediatric airway management is a skill that integrates the three types of knowledge as described by the ancient Greeks: episteme , or theoretical knowledge, techne , or technical knowledge, and phronesis , or practical wisdom, also called prudence. She needs her airway taken over. Give a test dose of 10 mL/kg NS.

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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. As always, it’s ABC and IV, O2, monitor first with early airway management in those with head and neck burns being a top priority. Address pain with analgesia.

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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. Because of the grave concerns of airway management, difficult airway, and aspiration common to third-trimester pregnancy.

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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. See figure below. 8 Figure 1.

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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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