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When, how, and why should you perform the serratus anterior block?

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    Novel Tips for Airway Management

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    Featured on #FOAMED REVIEW 28TH EDITION – Thank you to Michael Macias from emCurious for the shout out! Author: Joe Rogers, MD (Senior EM Resident, Rutgers-NJMS) // Editor: Alex Koyfman, MD & Justin Bright, MD The following is a compilation of helpful tips for managing the airway in the emergency

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    The Hypotensive ED Patient: A Sequential Systematic Approach

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    Treat the patient, not the number. A blood pressure of 120/80 mmHg in a chronically hypertensive patient can be dangerously low. Whatever the HPI may suggest, unbiased implementation of the bedside physical examination and sonography are crucial in the workup of unexplained hypotension. This four step systematic approach of sequentially
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    Ultrasound-Guided Hematoma Block

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    How ultrasound can help you win your fantasy football championship
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    The Unstable Patient with a Gastrointestinal Bleed

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    A minute-by-minute Jack-Bauer-24-type walkthrough for approaching the unstable upper GI bleed Tintinalli's - Upper GI Bleed link
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    Power Review: Management of the Post-Bariatric Surgery Patient

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    Your next 3 patients… #1: Gastric bypass pt with SIRS criteria #2: Gastric bypass pt with psychiatric complaints #3: Gastric bypass pt with nausea/vomiting The Basics -Morbid obesity continues to rise significantly (epidemic) -Increasing # of weight-loss surgeries w/ physical/psych effects => increasing ED visits for postoperative complications
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    Neck Trauma: A Practice Update

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    The neck is a particularly tricky area of assessment and management in the trauma patient, as it is the location for many vital structures. Concern for vascular, neurologic, digestive tract, and airway injury are of paramount importance in the evaluation of these patients, as all can be life-threatening. Oftentimes, the
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    Anatomic urinary obstruction in septic shock

    Occurs in 10% of those with septic shock due to urinary source

     

    Associated with 27% mortality

     

    Administer antibiotics, resuscitate, consult urology for source control

     

    PMID: 26905806

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