I have written about the resuscitation of anaphylaxis and asthma before. However, I was forwarded the AMAX4 algorithm for the patient with asthma or anaphylaxis who is either unconscious or requiring assisted ventilation, and I think it is an important addition for our sickest patients. The heartbreaking backstory to this […]
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Case A 58 year old woman is brought in by EMS with acute onset respiratory distress. Over the last few hours, she has found it increasingly difficult to breathe. On arrival, she is diaphoretic and using accessory muscles. She is quite tachypneic at a rate of 45 breaths a minute, […]
I have written a lot about airway management on this blog. You can find the main 5 part series on emergency airway management starting here. I have also covered a prior Difficult Airway Society guideline on the intubation of critically ill patients here. One topic I have not spent a […]
A summary of the emergency medicine approach to respiratory distress in the patient with a tracheostomy
An approach to managing the emergency department patient in a can't intubate can't oxygenate scenario
