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Why the interest in pre-hospital? Why not?!

Mind The Bleep

Im currently in my third year of working in a rural district general hospital Accident and Emergency Department, and one of the things that has struck me most is the use of pre-hospital medicine. Ive always had a keen interest in pre-hospital medicine.

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Cervical Spine Imaging in Kids – the PECARN rule

Don't Forget the Bubbles

PECARN prediction rule for cervical spine imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt trauma: a multicentre prospective observational study. Children in the validation cohort were admitted to the intensive care unit or operating room less frequently than those in the derivation cohort.

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The ‘Hidden C’

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Introduction: Civility Matters Healthcare environments, particularly emergency departments, are characterised by high levels of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity ( VUCA ). A third RCT demonstrated that even brief low-level incivility could increase the risk of major error during CPR by up to 66%.

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REBEL Cast Ep113: Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation

RebelEM

In fact, 4000 paramedics in total were not only trained in the study protocol but also given a rigorous evaluation of their ability to perform CPR. On the topic of EMS and similar to the pilot study, there was an incredibly high amount of bystander CPR performed. Thus limiting the external validity of this paper’s findings.

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Learning about human factors in the emergency department

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You’re in the paediatric emergency department, typing some notes for the child you’ve just discharged. They’re getting CPR. Then the patient is rapidly moved to the operating theatre. Promoting hot debriefing in an emergency department. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. …You burst into resus.

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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

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You are the Paediatric doctor on call and receive a call for an incoming patient to the emergency department. Tragically, several attempts at resuscitation upon arrival at the emergency department were unsuccessful. This is referred to as CPR I nduced C onsciousness ( CPRIC ). His name is Ben. Burgart, A.M.

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The 70th Bubble Wrap – DFTB x MSc in PEM

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This single-centre academic urban institution in the United States (US) undertook a 10-year retrospective observational study of paediatric intubation and bougie use in their emergency department (ED). Because of the retrospective nature of the study, the decision to use the bougie was operator-dependent. Resuscitation.

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