PEM Playbook – Airway Master Moves
You know how to intubate safely.
You can recite all of the Ps backwards and forwards – until you can’t.
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Journal Feed Weekly Wrap-Up
This week’s Journal Feed Wrap-up gives you new evidence on predictors of a difficult airway, US evaluation of tamponade, PECARN and pediatric fever, and concurrent bronchiolitis and UTI in pediatric patients.
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Stridor: ED presentations, evaluation, and management
Stridor can be scary. This post looks at the pathophysiology, etiologies, evaluation, and management for emergency clinicians.
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Pediatric Difficult Airway
Airway management in the ED is a complex interplay of patient factors, clinical illness status, and provider factors that through our thorough training we become proficient at navigating. One topic that deserves specific attention is the notion of a Difficult Airway.
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EM@3AM: Ludwig’s Angina
A 28-year-old male presents for dysphagia and inability to handle secretions. His mouth hurts and noticed his neck looked larger than usual. He has been unable to eat for the past 12 hours due to pain with swallowing, drooling, and difficulty opening his mouth. Review of systems is remarkable for a recent dental infection of his right bottom molar. What’s the primary concern, and what’s your next step in your evaluation and treatment?
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JournalFeed Weekly Wrap-Up
This week’s JournalFeed Wrap-Up covers a variety of topics including cricoid pressure in pediatric intubation, time to thrombolysis in ischemic stroke, and risk of thoracotomy.
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EM Educator Series: The High-Risk Intubation (Peri- and Post-intubation)
Welcome back to the EM Educator series! This week we evaluate patients at high risk for peri- and post-intubation decompensation.
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R.E.B.E.L. EM – Critical Care Updates: Resuscitation Sequence Intubation – Hypoxemia Kills (Part 2 of 3)
This blog post is the second part of a series of 3, on a recent lecture I was asked to give on Critical Care Updates: Resuscitation Sequence Intubation. In part two of this series we will discuss some useful strategies at the bedside to help us reduce pre-intubation/peri-intubation hypoxemia.
EM Cases: Obesity Emergency Management
Not only are obese patients at higher risk for morbidity and mortality, but obesity emergency management is complicated by the patient’s altered cardiopulmonary physiology and drug metabolism. This can make their acute management much more challenging and dangerous.
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COPD Mimics: What are we missing?
What conditions can present with wheezing, shortness of breath, tachypnea, and cough in the patient with COPD? Is it just another COPD exacerbation? This post evaluates mimics of COPD.
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