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Awake, and Paralysed: A Never Event

Don't Forget the Bubbles

You are the Paediatric doctor on call and receive a call for an incoming patient to the emergency department. Tragically, several attempts at resuscitation upon arrival at the emergency department were unsuccessful. Intubated, awake, and paralysed: a never event. Intensive Care Research , 1 (3-4), pp.60-64.

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Post-Tonsillectomy Hemorrhage: ReBaked Morsel

Pediatric EM Morsels

Since tonsillectomy is one of the most common pediatric surgeries in the US (~500,000 per year) and the rate of post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage is about 1-5% , it is a good idea that we all are familiar with how to manage this issue! If bleeding, the only lab that is needed in the Emergency Department is a type and cross.

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Cuffed Endotracheal Tubes for Children: ReBaked Morsel

Pediatric EM Morsels

Cuffed Endotracheal Tubes show no difference in immediate post-extubation adverse events (i.e Differences in intubation outcomes for pediatric patients between pediatric and general Emergency Departments. Bibl K, Pracher L, Küng E, Wagner M, Roesner I, Berger A, Hermon M, Werther T. Acad Emerg Med. PMID: 33774880.

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Serial PoCUS for ED Patients with Acute Dyspnea: Is More Actually Better?

REBEL EM

In many emergency departments (ED), US machines are readily available and can be used to rapidly assess and monitor patients with acute dyspnea at the bedside. What They Did: Design: Randomized, controlled, blinded-outcome trial Sites: Three emergency departments in Denmark Duration: October 9, 2019 to May 26, 2021.

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Of Twists and Turns

EMS 12-Lead

This particular facility is situated for independent living, thus no medical providers are on site to provide pertinent details for medical history, medication intake, or remarkable events prior to the incident at hand. Beats #1-thru-7 manifest the same morphology as we saw in the 12-lead tracing (A) for leads I and II.

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ToxCard: Anticholinergic Plant Toxicity

EMDocs

1 These plants contain tropane alkaloids such as atropine (mixture of d-hyoscyamine and l-hyoscyamine) and scopolamine which are muscarinic receptor antagonists. 2 Jimson weed ( Datura stramonium, Figure 1) is one of several anticholinergic plants that if ingested can cause anticholinergic toxicity. 3 Figure 1. 3 Figure 1.

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The Needle Vs. The Knife for Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Closer Look at the EXPRED Study

REBEL EM

Sites: Investigators recruited patients at 31 French emergency departments at university and nonuniversity hospitals Duration : June 1, 2009 to March 31, 2015. Recurrence of pneumothorax within 1 year. Adverse events at 24 hours and 7 days, including major and minor complications. Panacek, E. Strange, C.,

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