Fri.Oct 20, 2023

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SAEM Clinical Images Series: A Case of Painful Skin Lesions

ALiEM

A 50-year-old Caucasian female with a history of hypertension, coronary artery disease, and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus presents to the emergency department with a complaint of painful sores on the top of her left foot. She notes that ulcerations have formed over the past two weeks and reports a history of multiple recurrent usually non-tender skin lesions to her lower extremities, forearms, and hands over the past twenty years.

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Optimizing Hemodynamics Prior to RSI

FOAMfrat

Previously, I wrote a blog on pre-oxygenation, referencing my personal “weapon of choice” as chosen from the 7 Ps of RSI. I discuss that pre-oxygenation, to me, is ONE of the most important Ps of the 7, also mentioning physiologic optimization as a same-tier choice. But, putting them both into one blog would make for a read far too long to maintain even my attention span (which honestly is pretty short).

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