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SGEM#368: Just A Normal Saline Day in the ICU – The PLUS Study

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Aaron Skolnik is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and Consultant in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Mayo Clinic Arizona. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology, Addiction Medicine, Internal Medicine-Critical Care, and Neurocritical Care.

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Mechanical Ventilation Basics

EMOttawa

Mechanical ventilation has a lot of nuance associated with it, but a lot of reference guides focus on care in the ICU. With both ER and ICU experience, this post acts as a quick […] The post Mechanical Ventilation Basics appeared first on EMOttawa Blog.

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 009 | The ESPEN 2018 Nutrition Guidelines

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. As an EM trainee doing intensive care I will confess that I struggle to work up the enthusiasm to cover a nutrition guideline. Read More » Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. As with all ICU nutrition EN is preferred over PN.

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 052 | Bronchoscopy in the ICU

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Read More » Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. After 2 years of frequent, if not daily use of the bronch, I find it hard to see how I would manage in an ICU without it. Why might we pull out the bronch in the ICU?

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 082 | Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. I have previously covered this on the old tasty morsels of EM series back when i was doing my EM fellowship exams. The classic EM example is the whole family who present with flu symptoms and no fever and even the dog is sick. How does it make people sick?

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Trick of Trade: Inflating the Esophageal Balloon of a Blakemore/Minnesota Tube without a Manometer 

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Esophageal Balloon Tamponade Devices – Linton-Nachlas, Sengstaken-Blakemore, Minnesota Tubes (image courtesy of Dr. Mark Ramzy at REBEL EM) What are esophageal balloon tamponade devices? It is time to MacGyver a method that allows you to know the esophageal balloon pressure that you are generating to avoid an esophageal rupture.

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 069 | Sub Arachnoid Haemorrhage

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Given that a lot of ICU bed days are given over to managing SAH, I felt it might have warranted its own chapter. Though i’ll admit that that question is delving much more into the realm of EM than hard core crit care.