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Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring in Critically Ill Adults?

REBEL EM

In shocky patients, arterial lines are often used to monitor hemodynamic parameters and inform treatment decisions. PMID: 38215002 Clinical Question: In critically ill adults in the ICU is noninvasive blood pressure (NIBP) monitoring similar (≤10% difference) to invasive arterial blood pressure (IABP) monitoring? to 1.12; p = 0.03

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The EvK Trial: Ketamine vs Etomidate for Rapid Sequence Intubation

REBEL EM

Duration of mechanical ventilation, ICU, and percentage of vasopressor use were not significantly different. There was no information on the proportion of patients experiencing cardiovascular collapse before induction of anesthesia. There was no quantitative information on the amount of preexisting IV fluids and vasopressor therapies.

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An EM Resident’s Guide to Basic Airway Management

Core EM

You may glean some very useful information in just a moment that could greatly affect your intubation technique or preparation. It is true, someone finally did an RTC on ICU level patients and found that first pass success IS better with VL than DL (Prekker 2023), but the fact remains that sometimes VL fails. or maximum 8.5

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