by Jim Yang, Richard Hoang | Oct 18, 2018 | Airway, Anesthesiology, Grand Round Summaries, Pediatrics
Procedural sedation is commonly performed in the Emergency Department. It is a critical tool that helps facilitate unpleasant but often necessary procedures that our patients would otherwise not tolerate. However, procedural sedation is also an extraordinarily...
by Hans Rosenberg | Jul 16, 2018 | Airway, Anesthesiology, Critical Care, Journal Club
Journal Club Summary Methodology Score: 4/5 Usefulness Score: 3/5 Driver BE, et al. JAMA. 2018 May 16. doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.6496. Question/Methods: This single-centre, randomized clinical trial enrolled 757 patients to compare first-attempt intubation success...
by Bo Zheng, Richard Hoang | May 3, 2018 | Anesthesiology, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation
In this post, we will discuss the use of neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs) for intubation in the Emergency Department; we will focus on considerations in predicted difficult airways (RSI vs. awake intubation), Rocuronium vs. Succinylcholine, and the indications...
by Hans Rosenberg | Mar 26, 2018 | Anesthesiology, Journal Club, Resuscitation
Methodology Score: 3.5/5 Usefulness Score: 3/5 Semler MW, et al. Chest. 2017 Oct;152(4):712-722. Editorial: Should the Ramped Position Be “Sniffed at” in the ICU? Scott JA, et al. Chest. 2017 Oct;152(4):693-694. Question and Methods:...
