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Surrounded by Mysteries We Cannot Hope to Understand
I.C. Cordes submissions arise spontaneously whenever I have something on my mind. Usually they are concrete lessons in airway management, but recently I have done a lot of airway training and that tank is a little dry. Hence, this is another foray into metaphysics as I stumble toward the twilight and navigate Erikson’s 8th stage of psychosocial development.
There Will Be Blood...
Thanksgiving is over, now it's now to relive Halloween. Take another airway lesson from Dr. Carleton and his IC Cordes course. This episode he takes us through a terrifying Air Care case through the lens of the Difficult Airway Algorithm in a case of a bloody airway courtesy of a bullet through the oropharynx.
Time is on Our Side
You just got done with the most precarious of intubations, but while patting yourself on the back, you note that beeping saturation tone is continuing its decline. Did the tube get dislodged? Was it ever in the cords? Take a step into the plight of oxygen and pulse oximetry with our physiologic guru Dr Steve Carleton