Early Identification of Worsening COVID-19 Lung Disease May Save Lives
Editors’ Note: This article was accepted on Dec. 14, 2020, and was accurate at that time. Because…
About Richard M. Levitan, MD, FACEP
Richard M. Levitan, MD, FACEP, is an adjunct professor of emergency medicine at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, N.H., and a visiting professor of emergency medicine at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. He works clinically at a critical care access hospital in rural New Hampshire and teaches cadaveric and fiber-optic airway courses.
Posts by Richard M. Levitan, MD, FACEP
COVID-19 Lessons Learned by an Emergency Physician in New York City
Editors’ Note: This article was accepted on April 14, 2020, and was accurate at that time. Because…
Master Clinicians Address Large Problems One Step at a Time
I have long questioned the utility of airway algorithms and their relevance to emergency airways. This notion…
Incrementalization of the Cunningham Technique for Anterior Shoulder Reduction
In my own career and from watching hundreds of colleagues, residents, and other clinical staff, I am…
Emergency Medicine’s 50-Year Evolution of Airway Management
My first response on being asked to write an article on the progression of emergency airway management…
Tips to Improve Airway Management
Procedural sedation and emergency airway management are recognized risks to patient safety. Sedation, induction agents, and muscle…
Should Emergency Physicians Abandon Face-Mask Ventilation?
Face-mask ventilation is considered a fundamental procedural skill in emergency medicine. We have historically deployed it when…
Four Techniques for Handling the Omega-Shaped Epiglottis
Curved blade laryngoscopy, whether with a conventional direct blade or video laryngoscope (with a Macintosh design or…
Tips for Using a Hyperangulated Video Laryngoscope
Hyperangulated video laryngoscopes have blade shapes with a curvature more acute than a standard Macintosh blade. Commercial…
Timing Resuscitation Sequence Intubation for Critically Ill Patients
At numerous recent conferences, a panoply of creative and insightful clinicians have been redefining cutting-edge emergency airway…