Pediatric EM Morsels

OCTOBER 27, 2023

James Broselow, a family medicine-turned-emergency medicine physician from Hickory, North Carolina , recognized that his team spent a lot of time trying to calculate doses of medications rather than spending their mental energy on the actual medical decisions for the resuscitation. This system has now become the “ industry standard.”

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Pediatrics Resuscitation Documentation/Coding Wellness 271

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JUNE 15, 2024

Emergency Department Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta in Trauma Patients With Exsanguinating Hemorrhage: The UK-REBOA Randomized Clinical Trial. Case: A 24-year-old patient is involved in a high-speed motor vehicle collision. Reference: Jansen et al.

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Resuscitation Patient Safety Operations Emergency Department 112

EMDocs

MARCH 20, 2024

The goal of MMI-LFL is to improve patient safety, educate physicians and reduce the cost and stress of medical malpractice lawsuits. But few of us are comfortable discussing the subject with patients and their families. “Code,” “No Code,” “CPR,” “resuscitation,” etc.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JUNE 17, 2024

The Importance of Civility in Critical Care Resuscitation A 3-year-old patient with diabetic ketoacidosis arrives at your ED. While you are leading the resuscitation, one of your senior colleagues belittles a junior staff member for struggling to site an IV line. Conclusion Critical care resuscitation is stressful.

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Leadership Resuscitation Teamwork Patient Safety 105

ACEP Now

JANUARY 13, 2024

Those of us who were on shift at the time of the suicide attempted to resuscitate our colleague while still treating many other sick patients simultaneously. A tornado of organized chaos managed to transport him to the resuscitation bay as the tasks of life-saving maneuvers began.

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Emergency Department Resuscitation Patient Safety Hospitals 52

Taming the SRU

MAY 5, 2023

Specific patient populations were excluded, of note, such as the septic, already-volume-overloaded or severely hypovolemic patient – these will require careful, separate consideration in the tailored, specialized treatment of septic shock. Crit Care Med 42 (11): 2315-2324. Andrews, B., Muchemwa, P. Heimburger, C. Bwalya and G.

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Mind The Bleep

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Management Steps Step 1 – Mother/Father’s kiss Instructions: Place your mouth over the child’s open mouth, creating a secure seal as you would during mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Always prioritise patient safety; if in doubt, don’t hesitate to seek help from the on-call ENT team.

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