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Grand Rounds Recap 7.12.23

Taming the SRU

Fundamentals of ECMO - leadership curriculum - ultrasound GR - macgyver techniques fundamentals of ecmo WITH dr. bonomo ECPR from the ED: The ideal patients: Young patients with refractory VF/VT arrest ≤ 30 min since arrest onset Poisonings with cardiogenic shock Severe hypothermia with arrest Massive PE with arrest Key points: Good CPR/advanced ACLS (..)

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emDOCs Podcast – Episode 110: Primary Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis

EMDocs

Mild hypothermia is normal in patients with advanced cirrhosis; consider lowering threshold for fever to 37.8 Marked hypothermia is specific for SBP (> 90%), and it’s a poor prognostic finding. Ultrasound can assist: confirm ascites, evaluate for best site, abdominal wall thickness, blood vessels along needle track.

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Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest: Pearls and Pitfalls

EMDocs

Some authors recommend not starting chest compressions in hypothermia unless there is no organized cardiac activity (e.g., VF/asystole), a pulse cannot be identified via Doppler ultrasound for a full minute, or if lack of organized cardiac activity is confirmed on bedside echocardiogram. Classification of hypothermia.

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Grand Rounds Recap 4.19.23

Taming the SRU

Exertional Hyperthermia Patients with heat stroke will present with Temp > 104, AMS, or seizures.

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Multisystem Trauma in Children, Part Two: Massive Transfusion, Trauma Imaging, and Resuscitative Pearls

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

On arrival, he was in compensated shock, with tachycardia. The Trauma Death Spiral Lethal triad of hypothermia, acidosis, and coagulopathy. In other words, feel free to use ultrasound – especially for things that we in the ED will react to and intervene on – but CT may help to manage the traumatized child non-operatively.

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CASE #6 UPDATE – FIND THE BLEEDING, STOP THE BLEEDING

Rural Doctors Net

Intubation for humanitarian reasons is also reasonable – he’ll be in pain and this is not the time to be faffing around with the ultrasound or nerve stimulator doing blocks! Of course any fluids given should be warmed to help avoid the lethal triad – acidosis, coagulopathy and hypothermia. How to intubate?

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Episode 19 - Cannabinoids: Emerging Evidence in Use and Abuse

EB Medicine

It was peer-reviewed by Joseph Habboushe, assistant professor at NYU and Nadia Maria Shaukat, director of the emergency and critical care ultrasound at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. Jeff: There are a shocking 22 million past-month users of marijuana in the US, followed by pain relievers at 3.8 million, and cocaine at 1.9