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"It's really important to have anesthesiologists involved in the emergency department when patients come in. This really helps with continuity of care."
"If the fetal scalp pH is less than 7.2, you're delivering that baby right away, c-section."
"Reciprocal changes, seen as ST depressions, can help determine if a person is experiencing a true STEMI."
"More than 100 trauma patients every day came to our hospital which was beyond our limit at a time."
"Shock is any situation in which there is inadequate tissue perfusion, resulting in ischemia followed by necrosis, and possibly organ failure if not reversed."
"The cluesive dressings BAM just with those two three man you were raising mortality rates by 80% brother 80% on a battlefield right."
"RosC, return of spontaneous circulation after CPR."
"You should enjoy the reward of saving lives as emergency medicine is one of the few specialties that truly do."
"The golden hour: a critical time frame in trauma care."
"Why do you need bleeding control because it's the number one cause of preventable death in the united states okay like i said you sever your femoral artery in a car wreck you got two minutes to figure out how to fix that problem."
"Working in an emergency department changes your views on life and death."
"The goal of ACLS is to achieve the best possible outcome for individuals experiencing a life-threatening event."
"The hard science and art of emergency medicine is protecting patient safety."
"High-quality CPR components include pushing hard, pushing fast, allowing complete chest recoil, and minimizing interruptions."
"End-tidal CO2 is a great indicator for successful resuscitation in the field."
"No regret at all about choosing emergency medicine as a career. The good points to it are you can make such a massive, massive difference and be part of that relationship you can't put into words. It's brilliant."
"Working in A&E does change how you think and how you feel. Just gives you a better perspective on life, you know, like everything can always be worse."
"Talking about something that I think is an underrated problem in Internal Medicine certainly in gastroenterology, and I hope to shed some light on why pancreatitis in general should be considered a medical emergency."
"The main decision to be made in A&E is whether the patient needs to go straight to theater."
"This is what increases survivability. This is what's going to make the biggest difference in the first one to three minutes."
"Adrenaline is the life-saving drug because histamine is bronchoconstricting and vasodilating, adrenaline is bronchodilating and vasoconstricting."
"Pretest was a fantastic resource for emergency medicine, highly recommend that one."
"I'm an emergency medicine physician who wants to share with you a really important bit of information that you don't know about."
"In the first 24 hours, it's extremely important, and we want to save as much penumbra as we can."
"The number one cause if you've ever worked in an ER, you would know that the number one cause is certainly GERD."
"Effective high quality CPR is key."
"Emergency medicine physicians with ultrasound training can accurately classify LVEF as normal, depressed, or severely depressed."
"Any medication that deals with Airway, breathing, or circulation, especially in a medical emergency, you need to know that."
"My entire career has been spent in emergency medicine, responding to 9-1-1 calls and providing advanced life support for life-threatening illnesses and injuries."
"The ER is the only place in the world where every single facet of society comes together under one roof."
"For our medical kit, we have tourniquet and Israeli bandage for hemorrhaging and stopping bleeding immediately to save a life."
"A defibrillator can also shock your heart if it detects a dangerous rhythm."
"I started working in an emergency room, that gave me a whole new perspective on how all these other professionals work together."
"It's imperative as an EMT that we recognize these patients and we give proper notifications with good collaboration with the hospitals."
"The treatment for hyperkalemia: stabilize, shift, and excrete."
"This is a very, very, very important topic, especially if you are working in the ED or if you are working in the trauma bay."
"That's been a word from Dr. Chris, not your everyday ER doc."
"Emergency medicine is exciting with a variety of patient presentations and medical procedures done on a daily basis."
"The golden hour is the time from the injury to the definitive care, during which treatment of shock and traumatic injuries should occur because survival potential is best."
"I would be incredibly honored to have the privilege of pursuing emergency medicine in the Fraser program and look forward to serving my community."
"The only really effective treatment for severe acute allergic reaction is to administer an epi by the way of an intramuscular injection."
"CPR establishes circulation and artificial ventilation in a patient who is not breathing and has no pulse."
"The heart's in there going crazy crazy crazy shock comes. BOOM Let's focus on one thing at a time - you have a job to do."
"In the Western world, we understand the importance of the golden hour."
"We can stabilize any kind of problem; that's why I do like emergency medicine."
"Beck's triad you need to know this: jugular vein distension, hypotension, and muffled heart sounds."
"I continue to advocate in my role as an EMT and look forward to advocating for my patients as a PA."
"Triage is really the most important workflow of the ER."
"If we want to really break down emergency medicine and critical care in the simplest way possible: Air goes in and out, and blood goes round and round."
"The stakes are high in the ER, you know, mistakes can cost lives."
"Having a doctor on the spot able to make decisions has saved the ambulance an unnecessary cross-country dash on blue lights."
"The most important thing to remember is that you need to prevent these three factors: hypothermia, acidosis, and coagulopathy."
"The goal is to really initiate this within six hours of the patient presenting to the emergency department."