Welcome back! Fresh new FOAMy goodness for you, this time
with an emphasis on airway and pulmonary care. Let’s do it!
Three Stars:
1. No way around it: “Delayed Sequence Intubation” is the
new hotness. If you want to be one of the cool kids, you better get on board. I’ll
let the more graphically-minded folks at EMCurious lay it all out for you with a prototypical case. Don’t miss the links – more excellent FOAMed resources on
DSI.
(And Weingart’s seminal paper on the subject is required
reading at this point.)
(And, oh yeah, ketamine does NOT increase ICP. Let’s use
these two systematic reviews 1 & 2 to stop the foolishness already.)
2. Someday you will need to perform a cricothyrotomy.
Accept it as reality, and do everything you can to prepare for it. Start here,
with Weingart’s lecture on the surgical airway delivered at the SMACC Gold
conference last fall. This page from the EMCrit blog has compiled all sorts of
great surgical airway resources from around the FOAMed world all in one spot,
including can’t-miss stuff about the scalpel-finger-bougie technique and
Weingart’s pre-intubation checklist. You should probably add it to your
favorites list now.
3. Wouldn’t be a FOAMed Digest without getting a little
off-topic, and Rick Body’s recent contributions over at St. Elmyn’s regarding
ACS & “low-risk” chest pain in the ED are too good to pass up. Great post analyzing his recent paper, which concluded ED physicians simply aren’t capable
of ruling out ACS in chest pain patients with an acceptable accuracy using only
the clinical exam. Dr. Body also gives you a run-down of how to properly
utilize high-sensitivity troponin in his talk from SMACC Gold.
(Link to Body's paper here.)
Oldie But Goodie:
By the end of our Ultrasound rotation, we can all diagnose
pneumothorax with ultrasound at the bedside. It’s time to take it next-level.
A-lines, B-lines, pneumonia vs edema…the experts at the Ultrasound Podcast help
you figure it all out in a two-part 1 & 2 podcast.
F(FN)OAMed:
Sanjay Arora and Mike Menchine, hosts of the PaperChase
segment on EM:RAP, summarize the current literature about how terrible we are
at adequately sedating patients after RSI. Roc lasts longer than Sux – the patients
won’t be able to tell us they need sedation!
(Links to relevant papers in the show notes.)
The Gunner Files:
1. Brett Sweeny at EMDocs provides an exhaustive review of
FOAMed resources regarding permissive hypotension in trauma. Great lectures and
podcasts from some of the brightest minds in EM & trauma surgery.
2. We’re seeing it already – asthma cases are starting to
pile up over on the SLCH side. Luckiliy for you, Pediatric EM rockstar Andy
Sloas just published an excellent podcast on the evaluation and management of asthma in the Peds ED.
3. Next time you’re consulting Ortho or Plastics for a hand
injury, sound like you know what you’re talking about. The folks over at EMin5
hit you with the quick rundown on the neuro exam of the hand.
4. Last week, St. Elmyn’s helped the rooks get up to speed
when it came to dealing with the dyspneic patient in the ED (and I bet the
seniors learned a thing or two as well). This time, get your mind right when
faced with a syncopal patient.
5. Who doesn’t love infographics? And if they actually help
us learn something about managing septic patients, that’s just a bonus! Very
well done by EMCurious, with embedded links to the relevant studies!
6. New podcast from R.E.B.E.L.EM, summarizing the results of a meta-analysis just published this month in Annals which concluded prehospital application of NIPPV in patients with severe respiratory distress regardless of cause reduced need for intubation (NNT 8) and in-hospital mortality (NNT 18).
That’s all, folks! Go get your learn on!
Sam Smith, PGY-3
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