EMDocs

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Leukocytosis, as well as mild leukopenia, are common. 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] Definitive airway management should be pursued early.

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Resus Review

APRIL 23, 2015

P ediatric airway management is one of the most stressful and fearful activities within the emergency department. There is also a tremendous cognitive load during pediatric resuscitations determining the appropriate sized equipment and medication dosing, increasing the pressure. There are physiologic differences.

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RCEM Learning

APRIL 9, 2024

Ensure that you have a solid understanding of the core subjects, including emergency medicine, critical care, resuscitation, trauma management, and relevant guidelines. Maintain a Positive Mindset and Well-being: Exam preparation can be demanding, so it’s important to take care of your mental and physical well-being.

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RCEM Learning

APRIL 9, 2024

Ensure that you have a solid understanding of the core subjects, including emergency medicine, clinical skills, critical care, resuscitation, and trauma management. Take care of your physical and mental well-being, and ensure you get adequate rest and relaxation.

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PHEM Cast

MARCH 17, 2016

Preoxygenation and Prevention of Desaturation During Emergency Airway Management. Effects of face mask ventilation in apneic patients with a resuscitation ventilator in comparision with a bag-valve-mask. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2015; 65(4): 371-376. Weingart SD, Levitan RM. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2016: 28(1); 67-72.

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Taming the SRU

JANUARY 1, 2024

Establishing reliable vascular access is absolutely critical for ED patients requiring resuscitation, airway management, or medication administration. IOs can be used both for resuscitation, medication administration, and for laboratory testing, but there are a few important considerations.

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ACEP Now

MARCH 6, 2024

Many clinicians staffing emergency departments intubate infrequently, as well, and these results are likely applicable to a wide scope of practice. 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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EM SIM Cases

MARCH 14, 2023

After the program identified a gap in resuscitation training opportunities for their learners, she set up a longitudinal simulation based training curriculum for the learners of the curriculum, based on the objectives of training of the specialty and a needs assessment conducted by the program of relevant stakeholders.

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ACEP Now

JULY 7, 2023

Per discussion with family over the phone it was determined she had mild dementia, but had been feeling well prior to her mechanical fall. Assuming a difficult airway, both a video laryngoscope and cricothyroidotomy kit were prepared at bedside. She had no history of anticoagulation, cerebrovascular accident, or myocardial infarction.

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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). Flexibility of mind and skill bodes well. Wiget, Urs & Torres, Eric.

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EMDocs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

They increase the risks of hypoxia and acidosis during the apneic period as well as hypotension and hypoperfusion caused by the abrupt transition from negative-pressure to positive-pressure ventilation (10). Incidence and factors associated with cardiac arrest complicating emergency airway management.

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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. Is this child stable enough for intubation?

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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

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. Jeff: Vascular injuries include coagulation necrosis as well as thrombosis. In at least one study, the incidence of DVT in hospitalized burn patients was as high as 23%.

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EB Medicine

MARCH 1, 2019

Nachi: This month’s team parsed through roughly 1200 articles as well as guidelines from the eastern association for surgery in trauma also known as EAST. Moreover, when airway management is needed, advanced airway techniques by ALS crews were associated with decreased odds of survival. Nachi: Definitely.

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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

There was no difference between the low-dose and high-dose insulin infusion groups regarding the time to resolution of hyperglycaemia, time to resolution of acidosis as well as the rate of blood glucose change. Also, the study was conducted in a centre where clinicians commonly use a bougie for airway management. Resuscitation.

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Thinking Critical Care

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Essentially the F2F conference will be 100% interactive, as the long conversations are meant to address the topics that don’t lend themselves well to, or require hands-on workshops (eg sepsis and complex hemodynamics). If all goes well the remainder of the live registration cost will be required 4 weeks prior to the event.

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Taming the SRU

MARCH 3, 2025

In addition to smoke inhalation injury from fires, many chemical substances can cause inhalation injury as well including but not limited to nitrogen dioxide, ammonia, chlorine, hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and by-products from rubber and plastic. To intubate or not?

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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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