How To Place A Blakemore Tube in an ED Patient with Upper GI Bleeding from Esophageal Varices
Equipment list and tips on technique for the ED physician Case A 58-year-old male patient presents to…
Procedures and Skills
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How To Place A Blakemore Tube in an ED Patient with Upper GI Bleeding from Esophageal Varices
Equipment list and tips on technique for the ED physician Case A 58-year-old male patient presents to... -
Intraosseous Vascular Access – Our Specialty Societies Agree, Why Can’t We?
The Emergency Nurses Association and ACEP both have positions that support the use of intraosseous (IO) vascular... -
The “Weird” Catheter and Anal Aftercare
Nobody likes having severe pain in their “personal areas,” and as emergency physicians, we have an obligation...
Intraosseous Vascular Access – Our Specialty Societies Agree, Why Can’t We?
The Emergency Nurses Association and ACEP both have positions that support the use of intraosseous (IO) vascular…
The “Weird” Catheter and Anal Aftercare
Nobody likes having severe pain in their “personal areas,” and as emergency physicians, we have an obligation…
D2B time: Are we measuring the right thing?
Door-to-balloon (D2B) time is a measurement that starts with patient arrival to the emergency department (door) and…
‘Flus’ and ‘Ooze’
The greatest irony of this year’s influenza epidemic is the gulf between dire messages urging us to…
Ultrasound for thoracentesis
Introduction Thoracentesis is a common procedure that is used for both diagnostic evaluation and symptomatic treatment of…
Better in a breath
Happy New Year. (Period. Not an exclamation point). It’s a sober reminder of time passing and a…
Ultrasound-Guided Posterior Tibial Nerve Block
Introduction: Plantar laceration repair and foreign body removal are common emergency department procedures. Local infiltration of anesthetic…
Blame the messenger
As physicians, we have been well trained to understand the pathophysiological processes that bring about death and…