The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MAY 9, 2020

In co-operation with other specialties and committees, CAEP also plays a vital role in the development of national standards and clinical guidelines. Copies of our slides can be downloaded at this link. Our CAEP COVID-19 Town Hall presentation is available to watch on the CAEP website.

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Rural Doctors Net

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Instead there is institutional resilience through ensuring that the environment is suitable – using same kit in the resus room as in theatre, and mandating that any RSI ‘on the floor’ utilises a trained ODP from theatre [note to non-UK readers – ODP is a trained operating department practitioner ].

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PulmCCM

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

45% of patients were admitted to the ICU directly from operating or recovery rooms, 79% were mechanically-ventilated and 42% had sepsis. Download his free textbook here. In the 24 hours prior to randomization, 55.5%

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Dr. No

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Well, Dr No did try a bit of figuring, by looking at all cause deaths by age band in recent years, downloaded from this page. Yet, even as Dr No writes this, the UK is throwing itself into Operation Warpshot, the hysterical rush at reduced dosing intervals to get all adults boosted and ready to fly by the end of January.

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Forensics Wellness Operations 52

PulmCCM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Kenny MD [ @heart_lung ] In part 1 , right atrial pressure [P ra ] and cardiac output/venous return [CO/VR] were considered as two hemodynamic measures bound at the operating point [OP] of the circulatory system. OP is operating point. Shows what happens when Ppc, Pmsf, Rcardiac and Rvr all vary [grey operating points].

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Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

MAY 3, 2014

Review of the Wellcome Library movies on YouTube (1945) [ links below in references ] is instructive as to resuscitative methods of the 1930s and 1940s: Manual methods; gas bag or bellows operated by hand or machine; an anesthesia gas machine; or iron lung. Evaluation: Manually Operated Resuscitators (1971) Emergency Care Research Institute.

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RebelEM

JULY 31, 2023

REBEL Cast Ep121: The Battle of the Blades – VL vs DL Click here for Direct Download of the Podcast Article: Prekker ME, Driver BE, Trent SA, et al. Operators had performed a median of 50 previous tracheal intubations (Range 25 to 92) The median proportion of previous intubation operators performed with VL was 0.69.

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RebelEM

JANUARY 25, 2023

Late findings Fever Abdominal distension (+) LR: 5.64 – 16.8 (-) LR: 0.34 – 0.43 Absent bowel sounds Peritoneal signs (i.e. rebound and guarding) Diagnostics Laboratory Tests Commonly ordered lab tests (i.e. 2.3 – 5.4) (-) LR: 0.18 (0.09 – 0.35) Ultrasound Findings Dilated loops of bowel (diameter > 2.5

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Operations Sepsis Resuscitation Ultrasounds 52

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

AUGUST 2, 2016

" [Coroners Society] King Richard I (the Lionheart) needed vast sums of money for the Third Crusade, operation of the kingdom, and for his ransom fro m Duke Leopold of Austria. Accessed 07/30/2016. Frontline® Post Mortem: Death Investigation in America. Accessed 07/30/2016.

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Documentation/Coding Forensics CDC Fractures 40

Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 26, 2023

The Fontan circulation was an operation initially developed around 50 years ago to treat tricuspid atresia. There are different potential surgical techniques that can be employed in a staged Fontan operation and the various suture lines involved can interfere with electrical conduction pathways.

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EKG/ECG Hospitals Shock Documentation/Coding 98

RebelEM

DECEMBER 19, 2022

REBEL Cast Ep113 – Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation Click here for Direct Download of the Podcast Paper: Cheskes S, et al. While many healthcare systems across the world operate in a similar fashion, the United States does not. Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation.

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EMS Shock CPR Resuscitation 52

PulmCCM

JANUARY 4, 2022

The area under the receiver operator curve for each aliquot of 50 mL increased up to a total of 250 mL administered with a value of 0.93 Download his free textbook here. All patients were invasively-ventilated at the time of study and 69% were receiving norepinephrine.

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Wellness Outcomes Sepsis Stroke 40

Rural Doctors Net

AUGUST 30, 2013

Imagine being able to stream or access a downloaded 60 sec video file on how to perform a critical procedure – not a tool for novices, but a useful aide memoire for rural clinicians who may only do this stuff once in a blue moon.

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Burns Hospitals Wellness Ambulance Services 52

Taming the SRU

MAY 30, 2023

The AirRx app contains information regarding common medications and equipment available, top diagnoses, medicolegal information and more, and is available to download for free. hours earlier and went to OR 3.5

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OB/GYN Ultrasounds Pediatrics Resuscitation 52

Ken Grauer, MD

APRIL 23, 2023

IF dual AV nodal pathways were operative in today's case — then the BLUE arrow P waves in Figure-10 may be conducting with a very long PR interval — and — it may be that the WHITE arrow P waves are the ones that are not conducted because of this unusual pattern of Mobitz I.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

AUGUST 10, 2023

Non-operative approaches There is ongoing controversy regarding the best treatment of fingertip amputations, More extensive wounds are treated surgically. Operative approaches (from orthoinfo & the plasticsfella) More extensive wounds (often zone 2 & 3) are treated surgically. The splints are always on the dorsal side.

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Fractures Soft Tissue Injuries Emergency Department Operations 52

Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 5, 2023

Afro-Caribbean patients should be screened for sickle cell before anaesthesia for possible pre-operative transfusion. Websites [link] [link] [link] [link] Please download our Facilitator and Learner guides The post Sickle Cell Disease Module appeared first on Don't Forget the Bubbles. What could be the differential diagnosis?

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Blood Transfusions Stroke Dehydration Sepsis 126

RebelEM

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Perform manual detorsion after diagnosis REBEL Core Cast 91.0 – Testicular Torsion Click here for Direct Download of the Podcast Definition: Twisting of the spermatic cord leading to decreased blood flow to the testicle resulting in ischemia, infarction and potentially, tissue necrosis. The gold standard is surgical exploration.

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Ultrasounds Pediatrics Operations EMS 52