Mind The Bleep

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A more detailed but voluntary reporting of medical care indicated (note only a quarter of rescues had this information gathered) that 32% were suspected lower limb fractures (the casualty can no longer mobilise hence the callout), and soft tissue injuries making up the rest of lower limb issues. What medical care can teams provide?

Soft Tissue Injuries 52

Soft Tissue Injuries Seizures Ambulance Services Teamwork 52

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The two most common complications of VP shunts are malfunction (due to obstruction, fracture, or kinking) or infection. 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. of them were removed for clinical improvement.

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Pediatrics Fractures Resuscitation Burns 40

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. These aren’t your standard arrest patients though, they typically have many fewer comorbidities – so CPR tends to be more successful.

Emergency Department 40

Emergency Department Burns EKG/ECG Shock 40

EB Medicine

MARCH 1, 2019

In terms of radiography, a chest x-ray should be obtained as rib fractures, hemopneumothorax, and mediastinal free air are all things you wouldn't want to miss and are also associated with blunt cardiac injury. Nachi: Perfect, so that sums up treatment, next we have one special circumstance to discuss: sternal fractures.

Emergency Department 40

Emergency Department EKG/ECG Operations Fractures 40

Taming the SRU

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Lane & Mcdonough Definition of an immediate whole body CT (iWBCT) scan Shortly after patient arrival.

Sepsis 95

Sepsis Fractures Documentation/Coding Administration 95

Taming the SRU

JUNE 6, 2023

then need further evaluation Usually with CTA imaging If normal physical exam & ABI>0.9,

Documentation/Coding 64

Documentation/Coding Seizures Psychiatric Wellness 64

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MARCH 8, 2025

She sustained a large scalp hematoma along with several rib and vertebral fractures, but with CT scanning of chest/abdomen/pelvis/C-T-L-spine and head, no life threatening injuries were found. A woman in her late 60s presented after a car crash. Her husband was driving and she was a passenger. They were hit at high speed.

EKG/ECG 77

EKG/ECG CPR Resuscitation Wellness 77

EMDocs

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The patient has no pulse so you start CPR. This can be caused by lead fracture or Oversensing. You yell at him, Are you ok? One of your partners who was back in the resus bay working on a different patient heard you yell and comes over to check on you. You see him dive under the charge nurses desk? Are you seeing this right?

EKG/ECG 63

EKG/ECG Documentation/Coding Wellness CPR 63

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MARCH 27, 2015

factor than oral (which still suffers from the too-personal-contact-reluctance of the lay rescuer, as in “hands only CPR”), and to the more euphonious persuasion of “Mouth to Mouth” and “Kiss of Life.” At that time, too, it was felt that the cause, or —at least, the major focus of investigation, of Upper Airway Obstruction was the tongue.

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Airway Management Resuscitation EMS CPR 40