Most providers I've talked to can count the number of cric's they've had in their career on one hand, but they remember every single, bloody detail of theirs, and will continue to do so until the day they die...
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Welcome to the seventeenth edition of the #FOAMed Review! The idea of the FOAMed review is to give you a digestible selection of reliable content from the online EM/CC world that you can fit into your busy weekly schedule.
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This new study directly addresses this, with "high-risk diagnoses with potential complications" as a primary outcome along with radiation exposure and total costs. Maybe closer to our bottom line, rates of adverse events in general were comparable between groups.
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Welcome to the sixteenth edition of the #FOAMed Review! The idea of the FOAMed review is to give you a digestible selection of reliable content from the online EM/CC world that you can fit into your busy weekly schedule.
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Ultrasound provides us with a window into the trauma patient whom often is altered, or has significant distracting injuries, which prevents us from identifying occult injury.
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Enter the Sengstaken-Blakemore Tube, basically a last ditch effort for balloon tamponade. This procedure is not a common one given the prevalence and efficacy of endoscopy, but when you're all out of options it's either this or a body bag.
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