Emergency Medicine Cases

JANUARY 14, 2020

In this CritCases blog, Shock and Hypoxia in Blunt Chest Trauma, a collaboration between STARS Air Ambulance Service, Mike Betzner and EM Cases, Mike Misch guides us through a hairy thoracic trauma case, reviewing principles of trauma resuscitation, airway considerations, tension pneumothorax management and a rare and challenging trauma diagnosis.

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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. No priming allowed: the shock converted to unresuscitable asystole and the patient died.

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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.

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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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