Resus Tonight - Critical Care and Emergency Nursing Resus Tonight

The intubated, altered neuro patient waiting for an ICU bed in your ED can be daunting. Here we talk about the best ways to examine, trend, recognize, and communicate your findings to your team.
Components to one method of neurological examThe pitfalls of the Glasgow Coma ScaleBrain anatomy in ICP

Are you looking for pathology beyond a STEMI when ordering and interpreting a 12-lead EKG? In this episode we introduce you to other patterns you should look for, especially in the undifferentiated patient presenting with a suspicious story. We'll have you quoting Sgarbossa, Brugada, and AvR pathology in no time!


Sgarbossa - https://litfl.com/sgarbossa-criteria-ecg-library/Brugada - https://litfl.com/brugada-syndrome-ecg-library/AvR Stemi - https://litfl.com/lmca-occlusion-st-elevation-in-avr/

This is part 1 of 2 with our friends Landon and Monique from the NursEM podcast where we about common legal, regulatory, and advice for documentation. 
Does charting MD aware absolve you from responsibility?Does charting will continue to monitor actually mean anything to a nursing legal expert and a regulatory body?How is the regulatory college of nurses different than the legal system?Find the NursEM podcast at http:///www.nursem.org or on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, and Spotify.
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This is part 2 of 2 of our interview with Landon and Monique from the NursEM Podcast.

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If you aren't using waveform capnography where appropriate, you are not evaluating ventilation and gas exchange properly.

It is a highly reliable way to evaluate CPR effectiveness and return of spontaneous circulation
It can also be used as a prognosticator for cardiac arrestCapnography is probably the single most useful tool for monitoring patient status during procedural sedationWaveform capnography can be used as a marker of metabolic assessment

In our experience, nurses get little to no education on cognitive bias in their bachelor's degree  program. For a review of anchoring bias, click here.

Allan shares a clinical experience where he anchoring bias can affect patient care.