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Post-Tonsillectomy Hemorrhage: A Three-Pronged Approach

ACEP Now

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. Secondary post-tonsillectomy hemorrhages often require surgical intervention.

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Case Report: Rapid Diagnosis of Acute Aortic Dissection with POCUS

ACEP Now

By this time the CT imaging had been completed, and the patient was taken to the operating room for repair of significant dissection that included the aortic valve and the entire aortic arch to the level of the bifurcation with a false lumen tracking to the right iliac artery (see Image 3).

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Threading the Needle: Bougie-First Intubation

REBEL EM

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). Randomized controlled trials or comparative non-randomized observational studies.

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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. Flexion , abduction , and external rotation (C) should not lead to dislocation, and a fall in this manner may lead to a fracture. Hospitals, 2018. 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. Sedation and anesthesia for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in acute trauma patients outside the operating room.

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EMCrit Guest Post – In Defense of Dignity by Chris Hicks, MD

EMCrit Project

This sounds intuitive, but Ive seen patients wheeled into and out of the trauma room with nary a word said to them other than “Can you feel my finger in your bum?” ” From their perspective, they might be getting wheeled off to the operating room, to the waiting room, or to the morgue for all they understand.

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Ep 164 Cardiogenic Shock Simplified

Emergency Medicine Cases

What are the best strategies to efficiently get the patient in cardiogenic shock to definitive care, whether that be the cath lab or the operating room? How can we best pick up occult cardiogenic shock before it floured shock kicks in? Which patients with acute heart are safe to send home in general?