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Applying dental cement to a fractured tooth or exposed nerve can be a pain. The stuff is a thick paste that ends up all over you and the patient during application, and is challenging to get in the right place Here we show a simple way to cleanly and accurately apply dental cement… without the mess. Materials To do this technique, you will need the following: Steps Remember that dental cement dries very quickly and this process is best done […]

Vent management is a integral skill for the Emergency Medicine doctor, but it is a tricky art. We sat down with Dr. Andrew Phillips, EM and Critical Care trained physician and founder and Editor in Chief of EMCoach, an AI powered board review suite to talk about vent alarms- what they mean, and what to do about them.  High Respiratory Rate Alarm Dr. Phillips points out that this is really a misnomer. The respiratory rate we set on the ventilator […]

These three tubes are actually rather simple in their design and share a lot of the same structures. They all have gastric aspiration (image 1) and gastric balloons with insufflation ports (image 2) The Blakemore and Minnesota have esophageal balloons with insufflation ports (image 3). And the Linton and Minnesota tubes have intrinsic esophageal aspiration (image 4). This figure shows these same components in table form, as well as the volumes specific to each devices gastric balloon. Balloon Type Gastric […]

A debate continues in the subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) work up on what is the best follow up test – CTA or LP? This is the wrong question. Find out what question you should be asking and how to best answer it.