I hope I never ever have to do this, but these people at the Essentials of EM conference make it look easy. I think this is worth watching. Some points I took away from the video: This is a resuscitative delivery. It is meant to save the mother. The fetus and uterus are diverting a…
Here are some great videos on how to use bougies. Intubation with bougies Scott Weingart… yes, yes, but his video is good. Shows a preloaded bougie, which is what we should probably be doing. Has some great trouble shooting techniques Bougie cric Darren Braude’s video. A different view of the whole thing. I like this…
Dental fractures are always fun. Luckily we have a Dental Box available in the Emergency Department. Here are some instructional videos shown today. These will be stored in Pod A. Thanks to Dr. Vishnu Pandurangadu for the inservice on these tools and theDentalBox.com for the videos.
Ruben Strayer of EMUpdates posted a great video on how to do a cricothyrotomy. The only things that I would change are I would likely be swearing a lot more out of sheer panic I’d have everything ready (syringe and bougie) I’d pass the bougie in before removing the scalpel, just paranoid of losing that entrance…
Here Ed shows us how to attach the “BiPAP machine” to the wall and mask. You don’t have to set anything. It really is that easy. Sorry for the jitteriness of the camera. I either had too much or too little coffee that morning.
