Dr. Berzon presents some airway pearls for today’s Morning Report! Airway Pearls Rotate on Anesthesia as a senior, you will learn things that will make you a better intubator. As a junior, you just wanna shove that tube through…
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Morning Report: 12/13/13
Here’s a Friday the 13th edition of Morning Report presented by Dr. Waldman! The Case: 42 yo F hx of asthma, heavy smoker p/w 3 days of wheezing and SOB. Pt had been admitted for asthma in the past…
Morning Report: 10/18/2013
Thanks to Dr. Shin for today’s Morning Report! The Bougie Uses of the Bougie Assistance in endotracheal intubation, especially difficult airways Glidescope caveats The angle of the bougie that we have will not work in a glidescope assisted intubation…
Morning Report: 9/24/2013
Here’s Dr. McMillan with today’s Morning Report! Ketamine Pearl – Laryngospasm
Morning Report: 8/20/2013
Thanks to Dr. Alsup for today’s Morning Report! Laryngeal Mask airway for Prehospital Respiratory Failure LMA as a rescue airway It’s great when stuff hits the fan. A certain percentage of people you just won’t be able to intubate.…
Evidence-Lite Medicine
A few weeks ago, Dr Harriott gave a talk on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and pre-hospital airway management. She reviewed some historical context for the current EMS system and airway management. Her literature search suggested that for OHCA, paramedic-operated endotracheal…
Morning Report: 6/20/2013
Today’s Morning Report is courtesy of Dr. DiMare! Color Change Capnography How does it work? pH based REVERSIBLY reacts with expired CO2 purple with ETCO2 < 3mmHg yellow with ETCO2> 15mmHg How good is it? – nearly…
Hating on pulse-ox
We like to think we’re always practicing evidence-based medicine. So we inform our consultants about likelihood ratios and ask how can they be “so sure.” We try to be very aware of the sensitivities and specificities of the tests we…