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Choose Your Own Resus Adventure!

March 29, 2011 By Gerard Fennessy 11 Comments

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Get ready for an insanely edutaining roller-coaster ride through the perils of ruling the resus… Oh, and try to stay out of the courtroom if you can.

Filed Under: Anaesthetics, eLearning, Emergency Medicine, Featured, Health, Intensive Care, Resuscitation Tagged With: ACLS, advance directive, airway, BLS, breathing, circulation, code, difficult airway, not for resuscitation, Resuscitation

Own the Airway!

February 9, 2011 By Chris Nickson 11 Comments

Bougie-assisted digital intubation. (a) After the epiglottis is identified by palpating it with the long finger of the left hand, the bougie is threaded through the glottis and advanced into the trachea. Tracheal clicking elicits tactile vibrations, which confirm tracheal placement of the bougie. (b) The bougie is withdrawn slightly so that the 25-cm mark is at the corner of the lip. The endotracheal tube is threaded over the bougie while the bougie is stabilized in place. (c) With the bougie held in place, the endotracheal tube is turned a quarter turn to the left and then advanced to an appropriate depth. (d) The tube is held in place while the bougie is withdrawn. Tracheal intubation is then confirmed using capnography or an esophageal detector device.

The LITFL team have scoured the web to find the best collection of online instructional videos known to man or woman to help you ‘own the airway’!

Filed Under: Anaesthetics, eLearning, Emergency Medicine, Featured, Intensive Care, Video Tagged With: adjuncts, airway, bougie, cricothyrotomy, emcrit, intubate, intubation, needle, open, oxygenate, ventilate

Alarmingly high pressures…

July 29, 2010 By Chris Nickson 3 Comments

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A mechanically ventilated patient has high peak inspiratory pressures. You need to silence that incessant the alarm… What are you going to do?

Filed Under: Clinical Interpretation, eLearning, Emergency Medicine, Health, Intensive Care, Respiratory Tagged With: airway, alveolar, asthma, mechanical ventilation, peak inspiratory pressure, PEEP, plateau pressure

Time to tighten those sphincters!

June 16, 2010 By Chris Nickson 1 Comment

A 2 year-old boy requires intubation to manage his acutely obstructed airway. He is going downhill fast. What are you going to do?

Filed Under: Education, eLearning, Featured, Medical Specialty, Pediatrics Tagged With: acute airway obstruction, airway, croup, cuffed, endotracheal tube, epiglottitis, inhalational induction, intubation, obstruction, rapid sequence, toddler, uncuffed