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...
by Shahbaz Syed | Oct 24, 2024 | Airway, Anesthesiology, Commentary, Critical Care, Featured, Resuscitation
Precedex (dexmedetomidine) is an alpha-2 adrenergic agonist increasingly used in critical care environments for sedation and anxiolysis. It offers a unique profile of sedation without respiratory depression, making it an attractive option in various clinical...
by Zach MacDonald, Lucy Karp | Dec 9, 2021 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Orthopedics, Orthopedics, Radiology, Trauma, Ultrasound
Shoulder dislocations are the most common large joint dislocation encountered by emergency physicians. Given their incidence in the emergency department, managing shoulder dislocations efficiently is key to departmental flow.` Recently, Dowson et al.1 utilized a...
by Jim Yang, Richard Hoang | Nov 1, 2018 | Airway, Anesthesiology, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Procedural care
In this two part series, we are delving into a few of the many controversies regarding procedural sedation and explore how to reduce resource utilization and ED length of stay. In PART 1, we discussed preprocedural fasting and concluded that adherence to fasting...
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...
