September 5, 2016 - By Pondering EM
"Last week I attended ‘Critical Care in the Emergency Department’ – a one-day course run by none other than Dr. Cliff Reid.
Cliff describes the course as ‘the stuff I wish someone had told me as a registrar. A synthesis of my learning points in intensive care, prehospital & retrieval medicine, paediatric critical care, and being a front line ED doc for 20 years..."
- Capnograph ‘hats and caps’
- Capnography in cardiac arrest
- Intubated patients ‘fighting the vent’ need analgesia and sedation
- Optimal BVM ventilation technique
- Top tips for first pass success during RSI
- An RSI checklist is essential
- Bougies are great
- Actually, ED airways are often easy! Don’t believe the hype
- Avoid becoming a ‘Propofol Assassin’
- Conceptualising PEA/severe hypotension
- ‘Worry-less Whypotension’
- Bedside Echo – a crucial skill
- Causes of a high lactate