Ultrasound as an Adjunct for Prehospital Airway Management
You're dispatched to a 45-year-old male involved in a high-speed motorcycle accident. On scene you find the un-helmeted rider unresponsive with a Glasgow coma scale of 5 and significant facial trauma. The patient is breathing, but is in significant respiratory distress. You determine he's unable to protect his own airway and begin to think about how to manage the airway effectively. You anticipate endotracheal (ET) intubation and bag-valve mask (BVM) ventilation will be difficult given his facial injuries, and mentally prepare for the possibility of needing to perform a cricothyroidotomy. Your extraglottic airway device an...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - August 2, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Jenna M. B. White, MD Tags: Airway & Respiratory Source Type: news
Human Factors in Complex Airway ManagementHuman Factors in Complex Airway Management
How do human variables, such as leadership and communication, factor in when dealing with patients with an anticipated difficult airway? A complex case illustrates a pragmatic approach. BJA Education (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Anesthesiology Journal Article Source Type: news
John Gargaro, MD and Douglas Smith join Mercury Medical
Mercury Enterprises, Inc., dba Mercury Medical, Clearwater, Florida is pleased to announce that John Gargaro MD has joined the Corporate Board of Directors and Douglas Smith has joined the company as Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
Dr. Gargaro is currently a board certified orthopedic surgeon and graduate of Harvard University and the University of Michigan Medical School. He is currently Chief of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Kaiser Permanente Colorado. He is the former Chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and former Treasurer of the medical staff at St. Joseph Hospital in Denver. Industry ex...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - July 14, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Administration and Leadership Industry News Source Type: news
John Gargaro, MD and Douglas Smith join Mercury Medical
Mercury Enterprises, Inc., dba Mercury Medical, Clearwater, Florida is pleased to announce that John Gargaro MD has joined the Corporate Board of Directors and Douglas Smith has joined the company as Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
Dr. Gargaro is currently a board certified orthopedic surgeon and graduate of Harvard University and the University of Michigan Medical School. He is currently Chief of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Kaiser Permanente Colorado. He is the former Chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and former Treasurer of the medical staff at St. Joseph Hospital in Denver. Industry ex...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - July 14, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Administration and Leadership Industry News Source Type: news
Darin Hammers Appointed President And CEO Of Cogentix Medical, Inc.
MINNEAPOLIS, July 12, 2016 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Cogentix Medical, Inc. (CGNT), a global medical device company with innovative and proprietary products serving urology and airway management markets, today announced that Darin Hamme... Devices, Urology, PersonnelCogentix Medical, EndoSheath, overactive bladder (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - July 12, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Inside peek: Test-driving clinical skills before rotations
The rising third-year student, tongue between his teeth, slowly drove his needle into a silicone pad meant to mimic human skin, then pulled his thread tight and started in again.
Steady hands and keen focus meant clean stitches at the suturing table, one of seven skills stations at the clinical skills workshop.
Theodore Zaki sealed up the gash with a classic horizontal mattress suture, not unlike the stitches in a baseball, then straightened up and took a satisfied breath.
“You want to do anything you can to avoid looking like an idiot on the first da...
Source: AMA Wire - July 11, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Inside peak: Test-driving clinical skills before rotations
The rising third-year student, tongue between his teeth, slowly drove his needle into a silicone pad meant to mimic human skin, then pulled his thread tight and started in again.
Steady hands and keen focus meant clean stitches at the suturing table, one of seven skills stations at the clinical skills workshop.
Theodore Zaki sealed up the gash with a classic horizontal mattress suture, not unlike the stitches in a baseball, then straightened up and took a satisfied breath.
“You want to do anything you can to avoid looking like an idiot on the first da...
Source: AMA Wire - July 11, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
MassDevice.com +5 | The top 5 medtech stories for June 23, 2016
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5. Denmark’s Ambu pays $16m for ETView Medical
Ambu agreed to pay $16 million to acquire ETView Medical and its portfolio of airway management devices.
The deal calls for Copenhagen-based Ambu to put up $12.3 million in cash and...
Source: Mass Device - June 23, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: News Well Plus 5 Source Type: news
Denmark’s Ambu pays $16m for ETView Medical
Ambu (CPH:AMBU-B) agreed to pay $16 million to acquire ETView Medical (TLV:TLV) and its portfolio of airway management devices.
The deal calls for Copenhagen-based Ambu to put up $12.3 million in cash and the balance in debt in a “reverse triangular merger” in which Ambu will create a subsidiary, which will buy ETView then be absorbed by Ambu.
ETView makes the Vivasight line of devices that unite airway tubes with high-resolution imaging cameras so that physicians can see after lung blocking procedures.
“Through the intensive work of ETView’s staff, with the support of the Trendlines team, ETVie...
Source: Mass Device - June 23, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Imaging Mergers & Acquisitions Respiratory Ambu Source Type: news
Brett Reynolds Rejoins Cogentix Medical As Chief Financial Officer
MINNEAPOLIS, June 15, 2016 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Cogentix Medical, Inc. (CGNT), a global medical device company with innovative and proprietary products serving urology and airway management markets, today reported that Brett A. Rey... Devices, PersonnelCogentix Medical, EndoSheath, endoscopy (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - June 15, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
By the numbers: Specialty preferences before and after med school
Do you know how many of your peers end up in the field they picked when they began medical school? Which specialties are students most likely to stick with, and which ones attract students along the way? We break down the statistics.
The odds
Chances are you will end up in a different medical specialty than the one you had picked out when you first set foot on campus.
Just 1 in 4 medical school graduates ended up in the same specialty they picked the summer before they started medical school, according to a recent report from the Association of American Medical Colleges. That statistic is based on information from 10...
Source: AMA Wire - June 7, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
EMS Training Update: Pre-Loading the Bougie
Darren Braude, MD, EMT-P, professor of emergency medicine at University of New Mexico, recently observed EMS crews pre-loading their endotracheal tubes onto the bougie (also known as a stylet or endotracheal tube introducer) with resulting difficulties. In this video training update, Braude illustrates the potential problems with this technique and his suggestions for proper bougie use.
Braude is also the medical director for The Difficult Airway Course: EMS and a member of the JEMS Street Medicine Society, a special group of EMS physicians who started out on the streets and EMTs or paramedics. He will b...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - June 3, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Darren Braude, MD, MPH, FACEP, EMT-P Tags: Airway & Respiratory Training Videos Source Type: news
Pediatric Airway Presents Unique Challenges in Airway Management
Your aeromedical EMS crew is dispatched directly to a preschool for a patient with a possible head injury. The patient is a 4-year-old, 20-kg boy with known Hurler's syndrome who was struck in the head during a fall from a standing position. The school nurse arrived to find him unconscious, apneic and without a palpable pulse. She initiated CPR, which resulted in a palpable pulse, and continued ventilations via mouth-to-mouth until an ambulance arrived.
On arrival of ground EMS, ventilations were continued via a bag-valve mask (BVM) and supplemental oxygen while C-spine precautions where maintained. Endotracheal (ET) intub...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - June 1, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Ken Davis Tags: Airway & Respiratory Source Type: news
THE EMERGENCY AIRWAY: CLOSE Trial: Avoid Hypoxemia during Airway Management
No abstract available (Source: Emergency Medicine News)
Source: Emergency Medicine News - June 1, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: The Emergency Airway Source Type: news
