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Medical Category: Procedures and Skills
Non-Sterile Gloves for Suturing Traumatic Lacerations?
Background: Traumatic lacerations presenting to the emergency department are, by definition, contaminated (ie non-sterile). Standard management involves irrigation, local anesthesia, closure and tetanus update if required. The existing literature has never shown benefit to sterile gloves in these types of ...
REBEL Cast Ep111: The PREPARE II Trial – Fluid Bolus Prior to Intubation?
Background: Some of the feared complications of endotracheal intubation include hypotension, cardiac arrest, and death (cardiovascular collapse). These complications can result from numerous causes including medication-induced vasodilation and decreased venous return to the heart due to increased intrathoracic pressure from ...
Damping and Arterial Lines
Damping is the influence within a system that is a dissipation of energy during an oscillation. In other words, think of damping like a shock absorber. Imagine a patient presenting with altered mental status. All we know about the patient ...
The ED-AWARENESS Study: Awareness with Paralysis
‘He remembered waking up with someone pulling very hard on his injured leg, which caused severe pain. He thinks he was in the ED. The patient said this was the worst pain he had every had and it was unbearable, ...