Current Extraglottic Airway Devices and Prehospital Practices
Airway management remains a fundamental skill for all emergency physicians. Extraglottic airway devices (EGAs) have become a…
Airway Management
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Current Extraglottic Airway Devices and Prehospital Practices
Airway management remains a fundamental skill for all emergency physicians. Extraglottic airway devices (EGAs) have become a... -
Visual Dx Answer: a) Epiglottitis
Answer: The correct answer is a) Epiglottitis Epiglottitis is a potentially life-threatening inflammation of the epiglottis and... -
Visual Dx Question: What Is Causing This Sore Throat?
Question: A 22-year-old man presents with a sore throat. What is the diagnosis? Epiglottitis Peritonsillar abscess Retropharyngeal...
Visual Dx Answer: a) Epiglottitis
Answer: The correct answer is a) Epiglottitis Epiglottitis is a potentially life-threatening inflammation of the epiglottis and…
Visual Dx Question: What Is Causing This Sore Throat?
Question: A 22-year-old man presents with a sore throat. What is the diagnosis? Epiglottitis Peritonsillar abscess Retropharyngeal…
How To Manage Adult Asthma
This past summer, it became quite apparent that larger and more intense forest fires were contributing to…
How To Manage Tracheo-Innominate Fistula
A 24-year-old male with history of quadriplegia and traumatic brain injury presents to the emergency department with…
Fourteen Emergency Medicine Research Gems from 2023
Every year, the volume of published research continues to outpace capacity to consume. “Gotta catch ‘em all!”…
How To Use SALAD To Manage Unstable Epistaxis and the Airway
Standard reviews of epistaxis in the emergency medicine literature center on the epidemiology, etiology, whether the bleeding…
ED Management of Drowning
Drowning is any degree of respiratory impairment because of immersion or submersion in a liquid.1 It is…
Case Report: Blunt Tracheal Injury Creates Difficult Airway
A 34-year-old male was involved in a motorcycle rollover. His vehicle hit a pole, and he was…
Cushions Help Larger COVID-19 Patients with Proning
As COVID-19 cases continued to escalate in the United States in April 2020, Richard M. Levitan, MD,…