Procedure database

Here are some of the procedures from LITFL and the Emergency Procedures App

Basics

• General Preparation for Procedures
• Standard Precautions
• Administer Injections

Airway

• Own the Airway!
• Own the Oxygen!
• High Flow Nasal Cannula

Breathing

• Pleural Tap
• Own the Chest Tube!
• Pre-oxygenation with the Mapleson C circuit

Circulation

• Arterial line insertion (radial) (Instructions) (Emergency Procedures app)
• Central Venous Access (Internal Jugular) (Emergency Procedures app)
• Thoracotomy (resuscitative)
• Thoracostomy Tube Insertion
• Pericardiocentesis (Emergency Procedures app)

Genitourinary

• Urinary catheterisation
• Difficult urinary catheterisation (Emergency Procedures app)

Microbiology

• Lumbar Puncture (Emergency Procedures app)

Ophthamology

• Ocular Foreign Body Removal (Emergency Procedures app)
• Lateral canthotomy and cantholysis (Emergency Procedures app)

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

• Precipitous Birth in the ED (Emergency Procedures app)
• Speculum examination (Emergency Procedures app)
• Postpartum Haemorrhage (Emergency Procedures app)
• Simulation: Resuscitative Hysterotomy (SMACC19)
• Debrief: Resuscitative Hysterotomy (SMACC19)

Surgical

• Craniotomy in the ED (Emergency Procedures app)

Trauma

• Immobilisation: Pelvic binders

Mechanical

• Ring removal techniques

Emergency Procedures app