2022

Spoon Feed Nebulized ketamine may be the newest way to treat both acute and chronic pain in the Emergency Department.

Spoon Feed Here are the main points for why these authors feel ketamine should be the preferred induction agent over etomidate for emergency department rapid sequence intubation.

Spoon Feed The next couple of reviews will look at different authors making their case for why etomidate or ketamine should be the induction agent of choice for rapid sequence intubation in the emergency department.

Let’s start here with the case in favor of etomidate…

Spoon Feed Patients with single and multiple isolated subsegmental pulmonary embolism (SSPE) without proximal deep venous thrombosis (DVT) managed without anticoagulation had an incidence of recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE) of 3.1% (95% CI, 1.6% to 6.1%) within 90 days. This incidence of recurrent VTE was higher than expected and has implications for management of these patients with anticoagulation.

Spoon Feed Within academic emergency medicine, female physicians hold fewer leadership roles than male physicians. When they do, they work more clinical hours and are paid significantly less than their male counterparts.

Spoon Feed The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has released new difficult airway guidelines that replace the previous 2013 version. Here’s what you need to know in the ED.

Spoon Feed Providers at the end of the shift were faster to disposition patients by 38 minutes compared to the beginning of their shift.

Spoon Feed Implementation of ED sepsis teams to organize providers and coordinate initiation of sepsis care bundles reduced in-hospital mortality and improved time metrics in patients diagnosed with sepsis, but not those with severe sepsis or septic shock.

Spoon Feed Cough and cold medications (CCM) have off-label usage as sedatives and, unfortunately, for child mistreatment. Pediatric populations, especially those < 2 years of age, are most susceptible to CCM related deaths.

Spoon Feed Point-of-care ultrasound for hypertrophic pyloric stenosis is accurate, can be incorporated into a protocol with radiology-performed ultrasound without delaying treatment, and can reduce ED length of stay.