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Snooze Control: Procedural Sedation 101

Snooze Control: Procedural Sedation 101

by Shane Baistrocchi | Feb 13, 2025 | Airway, Anesthesiology, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation

Procedural sedation (PS) is a cornerstone of Emergency Medicine, frequently employed in the Emergency Department (ED) to facilitate painful or anxiety-provoking procedures while ensuring patient comfort. The goal is to achieve optimal sedation while allowing for rapid...
Trust No One, Believe Nothing, Pre-Oxygenation is Key

Trust No One, Believe Nothing, Pre-Oxygenation is Key

by Patrick Fisk, Mathieu McKinnon | Jun 6, 2024 | Airway, Anesthesiology, Critical Care, emergency, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Respirology, Resuscitation

Your patients need you to start rethinking what you know about pre-oxygenation. The peri-intubation period is a physiologically hazardous time; when we feel forced to act in critical situations, we often try to speed things up and cut corners. We hope to convince you,...
Awake Intubation in the ED: A Practical Update

Awake Intubation in the ED: A Practical Update

by Nicholas Choi | Dec 1, 2022 | Airway, Anesthesiology, Critical Care, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation

Awake intubations are an uncommon procedure, so cognitively practicing the nuances can be critically important to success. Here, we present an updated practical guide on awake intubations in the ED intended to supplement a previously posted topic. You can see the...
ACE Inhibitor-Induced Angioedema

ACE Inhibitor-Induced Angioedema

by Nate Murray, Talal Alkhaldi | Nov 24, 2022 | Airway, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Resuscitation

When encountering patients with angioedema, we have historically used a similar approach to anaphylaxis, mostly out of a lack of evidence supporting a particular practice. Here, we take a deep dive into ACE inhibitor-induced angioedema to provide the most up to date...
Association of Checklist Use in Endotracheal Intubation With Clinically Important Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Association of Checklist Use in Endotracheal Intubation With Clinically Important Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

by Hans Rosenberg | Nov 2, 2020 | Anesthesiology, Full Article, Journal Club, Resuscitation

Methodology: 3.5/5 Usefulness: 2/5 Turner JS, et al. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Jul 1;3(7):e209278. Question and Methods: Systematic review and meta-analysis evaluating if checklist use during endotracheal intubation leads to improved patient outcomes. Findings: The authors...
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