Don't Forget the Bubbles

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Up to 5% of burns occur secondary to electrical injuries, and this rises to 27% in developing countries. Significant injuries can occur even in the absence of extensive burns or other signs of external injury. Children, especially toddlers, may insert objects into outlets, leading to shocks or burns.

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Burns Fluid Resuscitation Shock Resuscitation 80

Taming the SRU

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

ETT onto a fiberoptic scope. ETT onto a fiberoptic scope.

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CPR Burns Airway Management Wellness 88

Taming the SRU

JUNE 24, 2024

Skin burns and irritation can also result from the pacing pads and cause pain. Resuscitation , Volume 181,2022,Pages 140-146,ISSN 0300-9572, [link] Scott Weingart, MD FCCM. AP placement was proven to be capture at a lower current than the AL placement in the same patients, thus more effective. [5] Bektas, Firat, and Secgin Soyuncu.

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Advances Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) CPR Burns Resuscitation 88

ACEP Now

AUGUST 15, 2023

Staff interrupt you while you’re in Room 3 with a patient you’ve placed on BiPAP, “We have an incoming patient with CPR in progress in five minutes,” the nurse says before adding, “Room 4’s family really wants to talk with you again.” The impact of burn-out on emergency physicians and emergency medicine residents: a systematic review.

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Emergency Department Military Resuscitation Wellness 90

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. Nachi: Each year, in the US, approximately 10,000 patients present with electrical burns or shocks. Most electrical injuries present with burns to the skin.

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Emergency Department Burns EKG/ECG Shock 40

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The Huber needle is not a resuscitative line. The main thing for us is to suspect it, detect it, control it, and if the child arrests, to do vigorous CPR to mechanically disrupt the bubbles. Increased demand may be temporary, such as in burns, s/p cardiac surgery, or ay prolonged recovery. He is in compensated shock.

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Pediatrics Fractures Resuscitation Burns 40

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

APRIL 1, 2017

Be ready to perform CPR. Children 1 year and up, unconscious – CPR: start CPR with chest compressions (do not perform a pulse check). 34 “The mother, or other trusted adult, places her mouth over the child’s open mouth, forming a firm seal as if about to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Emergent removal is required.

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Pediatrics CPR Operations Resuscitation 52