Patients Don ’t Buy Backboards
I have a Labrador named Eddie. He eats only Eukanuba dog food. That’s because we buy it for him. If we bought him a different brand, I’m sure he would eat that as well. He might need to get a little hungry before he agreed to the switch, but my gut tells me that he would eventually concede.
Knowing my dog, probably sooner than later.
I want to quote from the Eukanuba web site:
Satisfy your dog’s taste buds with the succulent flavors of beef and rice. Your dog is sure to enjoy every bite with real beef as a key ingredient.
Reading this, one thing is clear. Dogs don’t by dog food. This product was ...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 15, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs
The Art of The Nasopharyngeal Airway
I would surely rank the nasopharyngeal airway (NPA) as one of the most under-rated / under-utilized pieces of equipment in the EMT bag of tricks. They’re useful, simple and versatile. As a group, we tend to do a pretty good job oxygenating our patients, but I think we drop the ball on BLS airway adjuncts.
Most of our unresponsive or semi-responsive patients should be arriving at the ER with an NPA in place. If you’re bagging a patient they should have one … maybe two NPAs in place.
They’re fast, they’re friendly, they work much better on the semi-conscious and they don’t stim...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 2, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs
Adenoid Hypertrophy : X-ray
The size of the adenoids is less of a consideration than the degree to which they do or do not impinge on the nasopharyngeal airway. If the nasopharyngeal stripe of air is half the size of the soft palate, significant obstruction occurs. The adenoids (A) are enlarged causing narrowing the nasopharyngeal airway (arrow), The lingual tonsils (T) are also enlarged. Famous Radiology Blog http://www.sumerdoc.blogspot.com
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Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - October 3, 2016 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Immediate care in sport – time for a change
How confident would you be if you are taken out of your emergency room and transported to be pitchside caring for a critically injured athlete? Your only medical equipment is strapped to your waist in a small bag; you have a physio with you, there are no other Doctors, no nurses and no little red button to press for help. There are twenty thousand people watching you at the ground and you are live on the sports channel with a further million people watching on…
Time critical limb injury
The days of finding a local Doctor who happens to be nearby or a relative of the players to “cover a game” are over. Medical...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 8, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Fraser Brims Tags: Sports Medicine ICIR ICIS Immediate care Pitchside sport medicine Trauma Source Type: blogs
Pediatric Laryngoscope Blade Length Selection
Whenever I research on techniques for selecting pediatric laryngoscope blade length, I continue to find that the only English article ever published on the topic was the one I did in 2006. (Pediatr Emerg Care 2006;22[4]:226.) I have to admit that this apparent lack of interest in the subject has caused me to have fleeting thoughts that maybe I am the only emergency physician insecure about his ability to select the most appropriate laryngoscope blade length for a pediatric intubation. I doubt that is the case, and I recently found an Iranian article that appears to duplicate my study and results in 60 pediatric patients. (...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - May 31, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
