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An Insight into Mountain Rescue Teams (MRTs)

Mind The Bleep

Clinically, your enthusiasm for providing maximal quality care needs balanced against rescue practicalities and a hostile environment (very different to your warm, dry resuscitation bay) – the cold makes all veins disappear…and you may be the only clinician responder at the scene.

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Beyond Ketamine: When to use Facilitated Intubation in the ED

EMDocs

Reduced Tissue Manipulation: With video laryngoscopy, less force is required to achieve proper visualization, reducing the risk of activating the gag reflex, dental trauma, soft tissue injury, and bleeding during intubation attempts (25). Resuscitation 2013; 84(11): 1500 – 4. References: Heffner AC et al.

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Pediatric Pain

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Some are simple comfort measures such as splinting (fracture or sprain), applying cold (acute soft tissue injury) or heat (non-traumatic, non-specific pain), or other targeted non-pharmacology. Skin and Soft tissue Skin and soft tissue injuries or abscesses often require solid non-pharmacopoeia in addition to local anesthetics.