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Wake Up! Awake Intubation in the ED

Wake Up! Awake Intubation in the ED

by Adam Parks, Kate O'Connell, Richard Hoang | Oct 24, 2019 | Airway, Anesthesiology, Featured, Grand Round Summaries

Here we seek to provide a guide on when to consider awake intubation in the Emergency Department (ED), with an approach to the procedure! The Difficult Airway When assessing patients who may require any form of airway intervention, we should be assessing for two main...
Assessing and Finessing: An Airway Update

Assessing and Finessing: An Airway Update

by Adam Parks, Richard Hoang, Shankar Sethuraman | May 23, 2019 | Airway, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation

Securing definitive control of a threatened airway is a fundamental skill in the care of critically ill patients and remains an ever-popular topic of discussion in Emergency Medicine. As Emergency Medicine providers, we find few procedures as satisfying or potentially...
Focus on POCUS: Ultrasound in Delirium

Focus on POCUS: Ultrasound in Delirium

by Adam Parks, Robert Suttie | Nov 8, 2018 | Featured, Ultrasound

For other POCUS focused cases please see our ultrasound archives Case The next chart you pick up is for an 87 year-old female brought in by EMS from her nursing home for agitation and vomiting. She is afebrile and her vital signs are normal. She has a past medical...
Sickle Cell in the ED: An Update

Sickle Cell in the ED: An Update

by Adam Parks, Robert Suttie | May 24, 2018 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Hematology, Infectious Disease

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a complex medical entity, associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Patients with SCD suffer from acute and chronic pain, along with a seemingly endless list of additional complications (from hemolysis and sequestration, to...
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