Don't Forget the Bubbles

JUNE 19, 2024

Well-designed multicentre large studies in children were warranted; cue Leonard et al. Children in the validation cohort were admitted to the intensive care unit or operating room less frequently than those in the derivation cohort.

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Pediatric EM Morsels

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

0.41), p < 0.001.

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REBEL EM

JUNE 8, 2023

Paper: Singer S, et al. References: Singer S, et al. PMID: 36108346 Cole JB, et al. PMID: 31270748 Maheshwari K, et al. PMID: 29872882 Jones AE, et al. PMID: 17035422 Holler JG, et al. PMID: 25789927 Schwartz MB, et al. The safety and efficacy of push dose vasopressors in critically ill adults.

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ACEP Now

MARCH 14, 2024

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. Scalise P, Prunk SR, Healy D, et al. Mun JH, Jun PS, Sim Y-J, et al.

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FOAMfrat

DECEMBER 28, 2023

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. This flight service noted during orientations that new crew members are required to do a minimum of 10 live intubations in the operating room before being cleared to intubate in the field.

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EMDocs

JULY 17, 2023

In these cases, CT may not be feasible and a plain radiograph showing free air or bedside US showing free fluid may be useful to confirm serious abdominal pathology prior to transfer to the operating room. doi:10.3390/cancers13092025 Pisano M, Zorcolo L, Merli C, et al. 2021.03.001 Bauman BD, Witt JE, Vakayil V, et al.

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ACEP Now

MAY 9, 2024

A search for Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) on any social media platform will yield thousands of before-and-after images, faja sales, operating room videos, recovery tips, and patients praising their plastic surgeon. Al Jazeera. Mofid MM, Teitelbaum S, Suissa D, et al. Accessed March 6, 2024. Accessed February 19, 2024.

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REBEL EM

MARCH 27, 2023

Paper: Owyang CG, et al. REFERENCES: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network et al. 2000 May 4; PMID: 10793162 Harvey CE, et al. 2022 Feb 8; PMID: 35156050 Higgins TL et al. PMID: 19325480 Gajic O, et al. PMID: 20802164 Heimberg DH, et al. J Crit Care. N Engl J Med. Crit Care Explor. Crit Care Med.

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EMDocs

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

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. Parvizi J, Tan TL, Goswami K, et al. Hospitals, 2018. 2021 Aug 31.

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ACEP Now

APRIL 4, 2024

Other exceptions are patient refusal, patient death or immediate transfer to the operating room. References Sweeting MJ, Thompson SG, Brown LC, et al. Gunnarsson K, Wanhainen A, Björck M, et al. Lloyd GM, Bown MJ, Norwood MG, et al. Metcalfe D, Sugand K, Thrumurthy SG, et al. Ho VT, Tran K, George EL, et al.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

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. Mellick, L.B.,

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ACEP Now

JANUARY 12, 2024

The patient was admitted to the obstetrics service and underwent spinal anesthesia in the operating room to manually reduce the uterus. Gardner C, Jaffe T, Hertzberg B, et al. A pessary was inserted during that procedure. On the next day, the Foley catheter was removed and the patient was able to spontaneously void.

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Operating Room Emergency Department OR ED 52

AAEM RSA

DECEMBER 3, 2020

A thorough physical exam, imaging, and laboratory studies can assist, but definitive diagnosis can only be made in the operating room. Fournier gangrene: an histori9]al reappraisal. Sugihara T, Yasunaga H, Horiguchi H, et al. Bjurlin MA, O'Grady T, Kim DY, et al. Sorensen MD, Krieger JN, Rivara FP, et al.

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FOAMfrat

MARCH 11, 2024

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.

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ALiEM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The patient was taken to the operating room for dilation and curettage and was discharged the following day. link] Cline, David, et al. link] Acaia, Barbara, et al. Obstetrics and Gynecology was consulted for definitive management. Obstetrics & Gynecology, vol. 2, 2021, pp. McGraw-Hill Education, 2020. and Donald P.

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