ACEP Now

JANUARY 5, 2025

A young woman, 13 days post-tonsillectomy, comes into your rural emergency department (ED) coughing up blood. The literature suggests that approximately 85 percent of these cases require procedural source control in the operating room, highlighting the importance of expediting transport arrangements.

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Operating Room Epinephrine ALS ED 98

REBEL EM

JUNE 8, 2023

1-4 The PDPs, phenylephrine and epinephrine, result in vasoconstriction and increased cardiac contractility. They can be associated with side effects such as reflex bradycardia, decreased stroke volume in phenylephrine, tachycardia and hypertension associated with epinephrine.

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Epinephrine Emergency Department ALS Operating Room 98

FOAMfrat

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In the standard care of anaphylactoid reactions, we administer Epinephrine, Diphenhydramine, steroids, and bronchodilators. Sure, we still do CPR, defibrillate as needed, and give Epinephrine based upon our local guidance. Like I said, any emergency physician, as much as they may not love it, can perform a perimortem cesarian section.

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Epinephrine CPR Operating Room Plasma 105