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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. Where, might you say, is the role of the doctor?

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Beyond Ketamine: When to use Facilitated Intubation in the ED

EMDocs

They increase the risks of hypoxia and acidosis during the apneic period as well as hypotension and hypoperfusion caused by the abrupt transition from negative-pressure to positive-pressure ventilation (10). The ramped position helps displace these soft tissues anteriorly, reducing the risk of obstruction during laryngoscopy.

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Pediatric Pain

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Tachycardia, tachypnea, and a change in behavior can be indicators not only to the presence of pain, but possibly to its etiology as well. For children greater than one year who are preverbal, a well performing scale is the FLACC score: Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability ( Table 3 ).