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Potato vs Potato

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I have been a nurse since 2013. Data was pulled from June 2013 to June 2018. During Orientations, new crew members must do a minimum of 10 live intubations in the operating room before being cleared to intubate in the field. Brittany Grandfield, Flight Nurse Citation: Thompson, Gregory, et al. 6, 2023, pp.

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The PROTECTION Trial – A Randomized Trial of Intravenous Amino Acids for Kidney Protection

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PMID: 36038001 Levi TM, et al. PMID: 24553510 Iacone R, et al. The authors of this study sought to test the hypothesis that intravenous amino acid therapy would lead to a lower occurrence of postoperative AKI when compared to placebo. Paper: Landoni G. The PROTECTION trial. The PROTECTION trial. Contemp Clin Trials. Epub 2022 Aug 28.

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How To Manage Tracheo-Innominate Fistula

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18 The finger is inserted through the stoma alongside the endotracheal tube and, while 90 percent success rate has been reported with this method in controlling bleeding, the pressure must be maintained until the patient is transferred to the operating room. 2013:1960-62. Scalise P, Prunk SR, Healy D, et al. Br J Anaesth.

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EM@3AM: Total Hip Arthroplasty Complications

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Open reduction in the operating room may be required if closed reduction is unsuccessful. Overview of Operating Room Procedures During Inpatient Stays in U.S. Available from: [link] Maradit Kremers H, Larson DR, Crowson CS, et al. 2013 Dec;6(4):350-6. Parvizi J, Tan TL, Goswami K, et al. 2021 Aug 31.

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New Quality Measure Improves Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

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Other exceptions are patient refusal, patient death or immediate transfer to the operating room. References Sweeting MJ, Thompson SG, Brown LC, et al. Boca Raton, FL:CRC Press; 2013. Gunnarsson K, Wanhainen A, Björck M, et al. Nationwide study of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms during twenty years (1994–2013).

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Testicular torsion

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One systematic review of 1283 patients showed that if you got to the operating room within 6 hours, you had a 97% chance of saving the testicle. According to Sleeman et al., A systematic review and meta-analysis by Choudhary et al. and Al-Dhahir, M.A., This dropped to 79.3% 479 had confirmed torsion. Barbosa, J.A.,

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Escape Room - Placenta Previa

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Looking at several different sources, it seems that the chance a placenta previa will form in the pregnancy following a cesarian delivery increases by ~40-60% (Cresswell et al., The good news is that most placenta previa cases resolve independently (~90% of them) (Getahun et al., There is a study by Silver et al. Ronsmans, C.,