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SGEM#294: Blood Pressure – Do Better, Keep Rising with NorEpi

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Max is then going to Georgetown to be an attending in both EM and ICU. You scan through the EMR and see the blood pressure is 60/40. Case: It’s another day in your emergency department (ED). Six hours into your shift, you finish dispo’ing the “really quick sign-out” from the night before.

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Impact of Emergency Department Crowding on Lung Protective Ventilation

REBEL EM

2 Finally the settings initiated early in a patient’s care are often carried forward unchanged into their hospital and ICU stay. 2019 Aug; PMID: 30954692 Clinical Question: What is the impact of system factors in the implementation of standard-of-care LPV in critically ill ED patients admitted to the ICU? Paper: Owyang CG, et al.

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The Safety and Efficacy of Push Dose Vasopressors in Critically Ill Adults

REBEL EM

The retrospective design of this study omitted assessment of ventricular dysrhythmias related to push dose pressor administration, as they were reliant on information in the EMR. The relationship between ICU hypotension and in-hospital mortality and morbidity in septic patients. J Med Toxicol. Epub 2019 Jul 3. Intensive Care Med.

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Rethinking Fluid Resuscitation in Vaso-Occlusive Crisis: Is Lactated Ringer’s the Superior Choice?

REBEL EM

Reliance on a billing dataset, instead of EMR or prospective data, likely affected the quality of outcome measurement. appeared first on REBEL EM - Emergency Medicine Blog. This study only included data from the United States; it may not be generalizable to other countries where clinical practice and patient populations differ.

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An EM Resident’s Guide to Basic Airway Management

Core EM

An EM Residents Guide to Basic Airway Management Authors: Justin Rice, MD Sagar Desai, MD Eunice Monge, MD William Chiang, MD Preface: Airway management is one of the most critical skills in emergency medicine, yet it can be one of the most challenging to master. History When did they last eat (aspiration risk)?

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