Emergency • Critical Care • Transport Nursing

12/09/2025

https://www.emra.org/emresident/article/ecmo-series-intro

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) allows for temporary life support in cardiopulmonary failure refractory to conventional medical treatment. Given its capabilities and increasing presence in our health care system, it is important that all learners, from medical students to attending physic...

12/08/2025

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13049-024-01312-z

Background Road traffic injury is the leading cause of death among young people globally, with motor vehicle collisions often resulting in severe injuries and entrapment. Traditional extrication techniques focus on limiting movement to prevent spinal cord injuries, but recent findings from the EXIT....

12/08/2025

12/08/2025

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2840824

This randomized clinical trial examines whether sodium bicarbonate infusion decreases day 90 all-cause mortality for patients with severe metabolic acidosis and moderate to severe acute kidney injury.

12/08/2025

https://emergencymedicinecases.com/burn-inhalation-injuries/

Burn and inhalation injury patients present to the ED more often than one might think, with a staggering half a million annual visits in the USA alone. It turns out that for all burn patients—from minor to severe—there is a lot of room for improvement in ED management, counselling and dispositio...

12/07/2025

https://drsmithsecgblog.com/chest-pain-resolved-reperfusion-t-waves-should-the-patient-go-emergently-to-the-cath-lab/

Written by Emily Dawra, one of our superb EM G3 residents, with a few edits by Smith. Case: A…

12/07/2025

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2842305?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=120625&fbclid=IwdGRleAOh8PBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe3VAwqy_71_dXKAMb7jqY0QiQzLXuGiFTYe3LaJP-YDVYaohNSzWwPNmn4uk_aem_5vLKW__ASnOqJoZ3nxpKqw

This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-term all-cause mortality.

12/07/2025

https://www.bjaed.org/article/S2058-5349(24)00096-9/fulltext

The flow-directed balloon-tipped pulmonary artery catheter (PAC), otherwise known as the Swan-Ganz catheter, was introduced into clinical practice in the 1970s to monitor patients with acute myocardial infarction.1 It subsequently became the ‘gold standard' technique for cardiac output (CO) measur...

12/06/2025

https://pharmacyjoe.com/episode970/

In this episode, I’ll discuss paralytic first vs sedative first RSI and the chance of first attempt success. Subscribe on iTunes, Android, or Stitcher One of the most significant contributors to a positive outcome for a patient undergoing emergency tracheal intubation is that the first attempt at ...

12/05/2025

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s44158-023-00115-5

Background Invasive intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring is a standard practice in severe brain injury cases, where it allows to derive cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP); ICP-tracing can also provide additional information about intracranial dynamics, forecast episodes of intracranial hypertension...

12/05/2025

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/trf.70002

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