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Rethinking Fluid Resuscitation in Vaso-Occlusive Crisis: Is Lactated Ringer’s the Superior Choice?

REBEL EM

saline (NS) solutions are both isotonic crystalloids widely used for intravenous fluid resuscitation across many contexts and disease states ( Myburgh 2013 ). Reliance on a billing dataset, instead of EMR or prospective data, likely affected the quality of outcome measurement. Lactated Ringer (LR) and 0.9%

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An EM Resident’s Guide to Basic Airway Management

Core EM

look them up in the EMR to see if theyve been intubated before, and look at the note on the difficulty and grade of view.) Not even the base of the uvula is class 4 (Having a class 3 or class 4 has about 85% sensitivity and 80% specificity for predicting a difficult intubation (Mahmoodpoor, 2013). That said, this is not easy.

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