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Impact of Emergency Department Crowding on Lung Protective Ventilation

REBEL EM

Background Information: Obtaining definitive control of the airway, when indicated, is the responsibility of the emergency medicine physician. 2 Finally the settings initiated early in a patient’s care are often carried forward unchanged into their hospital and ICU stay. Paper: Owyang CG, et al. J Crit Care.

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

REBEL EM

Background Information: Acute Hypotension is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. 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. 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. 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

look them up in the EMR to see if theyve been intubated before, and look at the note on the difficulty and grade of view.) You may glean some very useful information in just a moment that could greatly affect your intubation technique or preparation. History When did they last eat (aspiration risk)?

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