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High Flow Nasal Cannula. It can be used as a pre-oxygenation strategy pre-intubation, amongst many other use cases. Dr Jeremy Rodgers from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth reviews High Flow Nasal Cannula in this short video.
CT Case 065. A 25-year-old lady presents to the ED with several weeks of blurred vision and diplopia. She has no known previous medical history. Eye movements are painful on lateral gaze and she has an incomplete right third nerve palsy. Can you solve this case?
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Dr. Marco Propersi’s insightful article on the REBEL EM blog, “A Winning Hand in Cardiology: Queen of Hearts AI Model Enhances OMI Detection,” highlights how the OMI AI Model redefines acute coronary myocardial infarction diagnostics beyond the traditional STEMI criteria.
Dr. Stephen Gilmartin walks through the steps of performing a lateral cathotomy. Orbital decompression via a lateral canthotomy and cantholysis should be performed as soon as possible (ideally within 60-90 min) once the diagnosis of orbital compartment syndrome is made.
This is a great review of chest trauma, including a summary table of the “Deadly Dozen” in thoracic trauma. Quick, can you name them?
Acute Ischemic Priapism is essentially a compartment syndrome of the penis and must be treated as an emergency. This review shares how to perform a dorsal nerve block and then aspirate the blood.
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