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In our latest What It’s Like installment, we hear from a nurse anesthetist who traveled to New York to help treat COVID-19 patients.
A team at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania launched the United States component of a global registry that aims to help protect health care providers who intubate ...
Therefore, our recommendation is 2-fold: that paramedics should not intubate patients with SARS-like symptoms in the prehospital setting, even if a PPS were available, and that these patients should ...
Emergency responders now have a new and upgrade tool up in their medical kit. Paramedics said it’s a new and improved way to help people with an obstructed airway.
Here are three difficult-airway protocols for healthcare facilities to identify difficult-to-intubate patients across different departments and teams, developed by anesthesiologists at Sunrise, ...
Reports are emerging of Brazilian health workers forced to intubate patients without the aid of sedatives, after weeks of warnings that hospitals and state governments risked running out of ...
Need for emergency airway surgery for hard-to-intubate patients reduced Date: November 27, 2009 Source: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Summary: Be prepared, that old Boy Scout motto, is being ...