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Medical Category: Resuscitation

Peripheral Vasopressors: Safe or Dangerous?

Background: We have discussed the safety of peripheral vasopressors on REBEL EM before. In that review by Loubani et al was a systematic review of 85 articles and 270 patients.  95% of the extravasation events occurred in PIVs with infusions ...

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Resuscitation

An Emergency Difficult Airway Predictor Would be From HEAVEN

Background: Predicting an anatomically and/or physiologically challenging airway is not a straightforward task by any stretch of the imagination.  There are some existing difficult-airway prediction tools available (i.e. LEMON = Look externally, Evaluate 3-3-2 rule, Mallampati score, Obstruction, Neck mobility), ...

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Resuscitation

Topics in Post-ROSC Care

Background: Post-cardiac arrest patients are among the sickest groups of patients seen in the Emergency Department. They are difficult to study, which leads to endless questions about how to best care for them. Below we address the available evidence on ...

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Resuscitation

REBEL Cast Ep 44: IO vs IV in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA)

Background: Placement of vascular access for administration of resuscitation drugs and fluids is a common procedure in the management of out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). While intravenous (IV) placement has been the standard approach for decades, intraosseous (IO) access is ...

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Procedures and SkillsResuscitation

Clinical Pearls from ACEP 2017 – Washington D.C.

This year ACEP 2017 took place in Washington D.C. from Oct. 29th – Nov 1st, 2017.   There were lots of amazing speakers and topics as was evidenced by the eruption of everyone’s twitter feeds with the #ACEP17 hashtag.  I was ...

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