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EM@3AM: Total Hip Arthroplasty Complications

EMDocs

Open reduction in the operating room may be required if closed reduction is unsuccessful. Overview of Operating Room Procedures During Inpatient Stays in U.S. 2016 Mar 21;8(1):6253. 2016 Jan;30(1):10-6. Extension , adduction , and external rotation (A) may lead to an anterior hip dislocation. 2021 Aug 31.

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Expedient Field Amputations

JEMS

Although scalpels and Gigli saws are routinely employed in hospital operating rooms, a Gigli saw is an instrument that emergency medicine physicians may not have encountered in their training. 2016 Sep;33(9):641-4. Epub 2016 Jun 8. Erratum in: Am J Emerg Med. 2022 Jan;51:430. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2021.10.039. 2021.10.039.

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Cuffed Endotracheal Tubes for Children: ReBaked Morsel

Pediatric EM Morsels

2016 Feb;30(1):3-11. 0.41), p < 0.001. Anaesthesia. 2019 Sep;74(9):1186-1190. doi: 10.1111/anae.14787. Epub 2019 Jul 16. PMID: 31313280. Shi F, Xiao Y, Xiong W, Zhou Q, Huang X. Cuffed versus uncuffed endotracheal tubes in children: a meta-analysis. doi: 10.1007/s00540-015-2062-4. Epub 2015 Aug 22. PMID: 26296534.

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In-Office Pediatric Ear Tube Procedures: Interview with Preceptis Medical’s Greg Mielke

Medgadget

Greg Mielke, Preceptis Medical: Today, approximately one million children undergo ear tube procedures annually in an operating room in the United States. However, ear tube procedures conducted in an operating room under general anesthesia can be traumatic for both children and parents well before the procedure begins and after it ends.

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The Safety and Efficacy of Push Dose Vasopressors in Critically Ill Adults

REBEL EM

2016; PMID: 27720568 Guest Post By: Courney Knieriem, MD PGY-1, Emergency Medicine Resident RWJBH Community Medical Center, Toms River, NJ Courtneyknieriem.md@rutgers.edu 2015;10(3):e0119331. PMID: 25789927 Schwartz MB, et al. The impact of push-dose phenylephrine use on subsequent preload expansion in the ED setting. Am J Emerg Med.

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Potato vs Potato

FOAMfrat

An Emergency Nurse since 2016 with prehospital experience starting in 2019 with a ground service where I was a paramedic-exempt nurse at the beginning of 2019. During Orientations, new crew members must do a minimum of 10 live intubations in the operating room before being cleared to intubate in the field.

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Case Report: a High-Voltage Victim

ACEP Now

In our case, the patient had a CT of the head, cervical spine, and chest, abdomen, and pelvis with intravenous contrast demonstrated a C2, C7 compression fracture with significant bowel edema (Figure 4), and was taken to the operating room for left arm disarticulation, left below knee amputation and right above knee amputation.