Background: Although most intubations are typically successful there is still a portion of patients that may require multiple intubation attempts. Repeated intubation attempts could lead to respiratory and hemodynamic complications. We recently covered the DEVICE trial on REBEL EM which …
Background: Point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) is a valuable clinical tool in the assessment of acute dyspnea. It can be used to distinguish between various conditions, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation, acute heart failure (AHF), pleural effusion, pulmonary edema, pericardial …
Background: Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) has a demonstrated sensitivity of 89.8% and specificity of 88.0% for identification of cholelithiasis and has a proven negative predictive value for ruling out other acute biliary pathology such as acute cholecystitis.1 It is …
Background: Bleeding complications are an uncommon but potentially a significant risk during central venous catheter (CVC) placement. Thrombocytopenia is associated with increased bleeding complications but there is no good-quality evidence showing that prophylactic platelet transfusions decrease that risk. Previous studies …
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