My favorite ED things for 2010…the EMCrit dirty dozen.
EMCrit Podcast 35 – Extubation in the ED
In this podcast, I discuss extubating patients in the ED. Specifically, I deal with patients who have only been intubated for a few hours in distinction to extubation of the patient who has been lingering in your ED for 2-3 days. The best patients for this short-term extubation are those intox folks with a low GCS and signs of trauma, overdoses, or endoscopy cases.
EMCrit Podcast 18 – The Infamous Awake Intubation Video
Emergency awake intubation in a patient with a difficult airway
EMCrit Podcast 6 – Push-Dose Pressors
Note: Please listen to the PDP update episode either before or immediately after listening to this one Finally a non-intubation topic! Bolus dose pressors and inotropes have been used by the anesthesiologists for decades, but they have not penetrated into standard emergency medicine practice. I don’t know why. They are the perfect solution to short-lived hypotension, e.g. post-intubation or […]