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Post-Tonsillectomy Hemorrhage: A Three-Pronged Approach

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The literature suggests that approximately 85 percent of these cases require procedural source control in the operating room, highlighting the importance of expediting transport arrangements. References Grasl S, Mekhail P, Janik S, et al. Dharmawardana N, Chandran D, Elias A, et al. Ker K, Edwards P, Perel P, et al.

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Threading the Needle: Bougie-First Intubation

REBEL EM

Paper: von Hellmann R, Fuhr N, Maia IWA, et al. Included patients from out-of-hospital, emergency department, intensive care unit, and operating-room intubations. Intubation performed in all settings (out-of-hospital, emergency department, ICU, and operating room). PMID: 29800096 Driver BE et al.

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EM@3AM: Total Hip Arthroplasty Complications

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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. Available from: [link] Maradit Kremers H, Larson DR, Crowson CS, et al. Parvizi J, Tan TL, Goswami K, et al. Hospitals, 2018. 2021 Aug 31.

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Expedient Field Amputations

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Kampden et al. 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. Based on these concepts, Emmerlich et al. Am J Emerg Med. 2021 Mar;41:104-109. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.12.065.

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Cuffed Endotracheal Tubes for Children: ReBaked Morsel

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SGEM#205: Twist & Shout – Testicular Torsion

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[display_podcast] Date: January 31st, 2018 Reference: Frohlich LC, et al. display_podcast] Date: January 31st, 2018 Reference: Frohlich LC, et al. Might his examination be enough to convince the urologists to take him straight to the operating room without a preceding diagnostic ultrasound? Reference: Frohlich LC, et al.

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Propofol-related Infusion Syndrome

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They concluded that propofol is safe, particularly in short-term sedation, but should be used with caution outside of the operating room, given some of the potentially severe adverse events (including PRIS) seen. Vanlander AV, Okun JG, de Jaeger A, Smet J, De Latter E, De Paepe B, et al. References Bray RJ. 1998;8(6):491-9.

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