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…
Airway Management
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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,... -
ACEP’s New Online Resource: Conversations with Industry
ACEP’s Conversations with Industry initiative is a new way for ACEP members to learn about industry products,...
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,…
ACEP’s New Online Resource: Conversations with Industry
ACEP’s Conversations with Industry initiative is a new way for ACEP members to learn about industry products,…
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…
Studies Test Common Cardiac-Arrest Advanced Life Support Practices
There’s a big difference between patients who are mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is, by…
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…
Oxygen Insufflated Into Lungs Can Prevent Desaturation, Aid in Emergency Airway Management
It was a simple idea that actually has a long-standing history in medicine: Oxygen insufflated into the…
ILCOR Guidelines on Asthma, Concussion, Dental Avulsion, and Anaphylaxis Reviewed
The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) appointed a task force in 2013 to prepare recommendations regarding…
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…