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Time is on Our Side
IC Cordes Ryan LaFollette, MD IC Cordes Ryan LaFollette, MD

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

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Crash and Burn: The Approach to the MVC Patient
Bread & Butter EM Guest User Bread & Butter EM Guest User

Crash and Burn: The Approach to the MVC Patient

Certain pathology gets a lot of attention in medical school.  Stroke? Sure!  Tests love asking about which vessel is blocked based on clues from the physical exam.  And rightly so; a fund of medical knowledge is certainly valuable when it comes to identifying pathology such as this.  However, when faced with a problem like blunt trauma, i.e. the “MVC”, one may find that there are also many practical and logistical factors that require bedside experience, ranging from marshaling of resources to reconciling patient presentation with reported mechanism of injury...

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