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Let the Junior Intubate? Nah… (Part B – Ethics and Such)
For the case intro, See “Let the Junior Intubate? Nah… (Part A)” In an earlier post I introduced a case that got me thinking about intubating in a training environment. Specifically, I wondered, how do we decide whether the junior-most or senior-most person in the room should intubate the patient with impending respiratory failure? O […]
Coalition to Transform Advanced Care Summit – Impressions
CTAC held its National Summit on Advanced Illness Care on Jan. 29-30 at the National Academy of Sciences. The summit name in and of itself doesn’t say much, but the twitterfeed piqued my interest. CTAC2013 focused primarily on ways to improve the quality of care we provide towards the end of life. To visit their […]
Symposium on Palliative Care in the ED
Now, back to business after a prolonged absence due to personal circumstances. Hopefully someone is still visiting… 😉 Since they don’t have a website yet, just wanted to post a flyer here about the upcoming 1st Annual Symposium on Palliative care in the Emergency Department to be held February 6th at the North Shore University Hospital in […]
Let the Junior Intubate? Nah… (Part A)
We got the call during the early morning hours of a recent overnight shift: “EMS is 5 minutes out with an APE”. “Ape?” the intern asked. Acute Pulmonary Edema Several minutes later an entourage burst through the big double doors. As she rolled down the hall flanked by EMT’s this morbidly obese seventy-eight year old […]