Pre-hospital chest escharotomy
Two cases are described in Pre-hospital Emergency Care of severely burned patients who were impossible to adequately ventilate after tracheal […]
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procedures
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Pre-sedation fasting unnecessary
A thorough review of the emergency medicine sedation literature showed there is only one reported case of pulmonary aspiration during […]
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Pre-hospital intubation experience and outcomes
Image: KM23- Yap State Hospital Medical Training (8016216) by U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Trent A. Henry, public domain, […]
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Carotid Artery Stenting versus Endarterectomy
The Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy vs. Stenting Trial (CREST) compared the outcomes of carotid-artery stenting with those of carotid endarterectomy among […]
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Inhaled NPA
A case is reported of a stroke patient who aspirated his nasopharyngeal airway, resulting in coughing and desaturation. After iv […]
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Single-use Metal Laryngoscope Blades
In a randomised study of more than 1072 patients for emergency intubation using rapid sequence induction, single-use metal blades were […]
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International Carotid Stenting Study (ICSS)
Image: Gray's Anatomy with markup showing carotid artery bifurcation by Gray513.png: Henry Gray derivative work: Skoch3 (talk), public domain, via […]
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Spine immobilisation in penetrating trauma
In a retrospective study of 45,284 penetrating trauma patients, unadjusted mortality was twice as high in the 4.3% of patients […]
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A human suction unit for choking
A case is described of a 12 month old who completely obstructed her airway from an inhaled plastic ketchup container. […]
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Win with the chin
Image: KFOR medics conduct airway management training (6660004) by U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Jonathan Perdelwitz, public domain, […]