Emergency Medicine Cases

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In this EM Cases CritCases blog - a collaboration with STARS Air Ambulance Service, Mike Betzner, we present a challenging airway obstruction case, the limitations of non-rebreather masks, using PEEP on bag-valve-masks, heliox, tips on awake intubation, and the differential for high peak inspiratory pressures in the post intubation period.

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Emergency Medicine Cases

JUNE 19, 2018

In this EM Cases CritCases blog - a collaboration between STARS Air Ambulance Service, Mike Betzner and EM Cases, a middle aged woman presents to a rural ED with headache and vomiting, normal vital signs with subsequent status epilepticus and serum sodium of 110 mmol/L.

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Mind The Bleep

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The team had an extraordinary amount of experience from hospital-based to pre-hospital medicine, and attended critically unwell patients on a near daily basis, so were able to make judgement calls that ambulance crews would not always be able to. Several air ambulance services in the UK offer elective placements for medical students.

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PHEM Cast

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Fanily presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The educational intervention “GRIEV_ING” improves the death notification skills of residents. Journal of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2005; 12: 296-301. Jabre P, Belpomme V, Azoulay E et al. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2013: 368 (11): 1008-1018.

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Mind The Bleep

OCTOBER 17, 2024

You may work with the police, fire service, helicopters, coastguard, and ambulance services, so interagency relationships are important. This is slightly different in England and Wales where the Mountain Rescue England and Wales (MREW) organisation has more input over team processes – hence the variability between teams.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

AUGUST 12, 2024

The air ambulance service intubated him at the scene and pre-alerted the department before arrival. One-liner… Understanding the underpinning principles and management of raised intracranial pressure is essential for reducing the morbidity and mortality of traumatic brain injuries.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

APRIL 8, 2014

It is a curious paradox of history that Nerve Gas was the product of agricultural research by the burgeoning chemical industry in Germany in the latter 19 th and early 20 th centuries, and that modern understanding of resuscitation came from WWII military investigations (Edgar A. Let's look at the early expired air resuscitation adjuncts!

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

JANUARY 31, 2016

Compare the possibilities of cardiac arrest resuscitation survival while in the Cardiac Cath Lab, the witnessed versus unwitnessed cardiac arrest in the ED, or the witnessed versus unwitnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Make the decision (at what photographic-great Cartier-Bresson called " The Decisive Moment.")

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The latter 1950s and 1960s, quested for nerve gas defense studying expired air resuscitation and modern resuscitology; developing intensive care units. To me, it harkens a new scientific renaissance of resuscitation science, emergency care, and creating systems for care. 1950s & 1960s Resuscitation Research. 10/20/2013.

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Rural Doctors Net

AUGUST 30, 2013

Importantly the ambulance service in many rural areas will be staffed by volunteers – trained to Cert IV level but unable to cannulate, give drugs (other than penthrox/GTN) or intubate. An ideal resuscitation would allow parallel processing with a designated team leader and teams devoted to various tasks.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 31, 2025

The patient contacted the ambulance service after he experienced sudden onset chest pain and diaphoresis that had started 20 minutes prior. Sadly, he could not be resuscitated. Written by Magnus Nossen The ECG below was obtained from 50-something male with a history of hypertension and tobacco use.

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MARCH 27, 2015

Her rejoinder was “I didn’t think to blow through the nose, but, boy, did I blow between the teeth! ” The nose in Early Modern Expired Air Resuscitation: Early teaching in expired-air resuscitation was three-fold. Few people now remember that a strong early proposal in the move for expired air resuscitation was Mouth to Nose.

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