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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 355

Life in the Fastlane

Mark Corden and Neil Long Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 355 Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 355 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.

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EMCrit 366 – Should Delayed Sequence Intubation (DSI) become the Standard for Critical Care Intubations?

EMCrit Project

Should DSI become the new standard? EMCrit Project by Scott Weingart, MD FCCM.

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AHA/NCS Statement on Critical Care Management of Post ROSC Patients

EMDocs

Author: Brit Long, MD (@long_brit) // Reviewed by Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK) The American Heart Association (AHA) and Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) released their 2023 Scientific Statement on the critical care management of post ROSC patients. This post covers the key components, with each section starting with the key takeaway followed by the scientific statements.

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Episode 136: Tribute to Brooke Lerner

Prehospital Emergency Care Podcast

A Tribute to Brooke Lerner PhD With the dawn of a new year, we all know that the 2024 NAEMSP Conference is approaching. While we are excited to see friends and colleagues from afar, we must acknowledge the void of someone who contributed so much to prehospital medicine, Dr. Brooke Lerner. Dr. Lerner was a prolific researcher, passionate paramedic, and dedicated wife and mother.

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(Q4/23) ESO Updates: Quarterly Product Enhancements

ESO

Happy New Year! As 2024 begins, there are many things we are looking forward to in the new year , including a quickly approaching Wave 2024 featuring ESO Training Academy , as well as a variety of new ESO features and product enhancements. As always , we take your feedback into account every step of the way, which is why we like to keep you in the loop for the exciting things to come.

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3 Guidelines for Acute Respiratory Failure and Airway Protection

SSCOR

The COVID-19 pandemic made acute respiratory distress one of the most common emergencies faced by first responders. Without prompt intervention, the virus led to respiratory failure and life-threatening complications.

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ACEP Leadership Diversity Efforts Continue to Evolve

ACEP Now

Inclusion of diverse perspectives is an important part of the ACEP mission—we recognize the need for both the voices of members and those of patients. The current Board leadership continues to move closer to being reflective of the evolving diversity of the ACEP membership. Board leaders have been intentional in finding strategic ways to get closer to being representative of the membership, including ways to promote interest in a leadership track and entering a pipeline to help diversify the fut

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More Hospitals Are Closing. Why?

ACEP Now

The wave of increasing hospital closures and service line cutbacks continues to sweep the United States. A recent article documents 56 additional U.S. hospitals that are closing clinical departments or ending or reducing services. Cited are issues of “shoring up finances,” “staffing shortages,” or “focusing on more in-demand services” as driving forces. 1 This adds to the more than 640 (mostly rural) hospitals that recently failed financial stress tests and are adjudged to be at imminent risk of

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