Resus Tonight - Critical Care and Emergency Nursing

Send us your questions and comments! SCAPE is one of those presentations where the difference between success and failure often comes down to the first few decisions. Patients arrive frightened, hypoxic, diaphoretic, and crashing, while the team must rapidly assess, prioritize, communicate, and intervene. In this episode, we focus on the assessment, clinical decision-making, prioritization, and co...

Send us your questions and comments! Sepsis isn’t new, but how we manage it keeps evolving. In this episode, we take the 2026 Surviving Sepsis Guidelines and run them through the reality of the emergency department. What’s different, what’s the same, and what's really in a name? Less algorithm. More thinking. Sponsored as always by Allan's mom and ROSC Healthcare Checkout our education p...

Send us your questions and comments! We break down the latest ACLS changes so you don’t have to read 200 pages of guidelines. Fast, fun, and packed with the stuff that actually counts during a code. For more information about ROSC Healthcare - visit www.roschealthcare.com Checkout our education programs at ROSC Healthcare  - www.roschealthcare.com

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Send us your questions and comments! In this episode, we explore the RENOVATE study, comparing high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) and noninvasive ventilation (NIV or BIPAP) for acute respiratory failure. Discover the pros, cons, and practical takeaways for using HFNC in the ICU and ED.  Checkout our education programs at ROSC Healthcare  - www.roschealthcare.com

Send us your questions and comments! We welcome back Nicole Cook, APRN and CNS to talk all about sepsis... and Nicole shares a personal story about sepsis we won't soon forget. Checkout our education programs at ROSC Healthcare  - www.roschealthcare.com

Send us your questions and comments! Allan and Rob continue the conversation with Nicole Cook about neurotrauma. If you haven't listened to episode 26, part one of this conversation, then we suggest you go back to do so.  However, we wouldn't recommend listening to us anyway.  Nicole's paper on Co2 - https://www.injuryjournal.com/article/S0020-1383(21)00624-0/fulltext Checkout our e...

Send us your questions and comments! Today Allan and Rob get the opportunity to talk to the one and only Nicole Cook.  She's a trauma nurse specialist, neurotrauma expert, and a great Twitter follow (@TraumaSoapBoxes).  This episode is part 1 of a 2 part series on neurotrauma nursing care in critical care environments big and small.  Checkout our education programs at ROSC Healthcare  - www.r...

Send us your questions and comments! For better or worse, Allan and Rob are reunited as they rehash some of the early COVID-19 literature and scientific direction for ED and critical care nurses. Checkout our education programs at ROSC Healthcare  - www.roschealthcare.com

Send us your questions and comments! This episode features two brilliant guests: Nick and Hussein. Nick is a husband and father. He also has cystic fibrosis and is a double lung transplant recipient.  Hussein is an ICU and emerg doc with specialty in ECMO. His ECMO team helped bridge Nick to his transplant. Listen to their experience! Checkout our education programs at ROSC Healthcare  - www.rosch...

Send us your questions and comments! We are proud to be project managers for (as far as we know) the only international, free, open source nursing course with the sole intention in fighting COVID-19. covid19.epicclearning.ca Authors from Canada, USA, United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, New Zealand and Australia have volunteered to help support nurses caring for patients with COVID-19. We recorded a po...

Send us your questions and comments! The CDC recommendation for homemade masks has lit a firestorm among health care providers. In this episode, we give our take on the recommendation. We also break down some interesting data on disease transmission. AS ALWAYS, READ THE PAPERS AND COME TO YOUR OWN CONCLUSION. References CDC. Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of Facemasks. https://www.cdc.gov/co...

Send us your questions and comments! Sara, ICU RN is on the show to share her firsthand experience battling severe COVID-19. She shares what she has learned, tips to get you prepared, and touches on the human side of caring for the sick COVID-19 patients. Resources ARDSnet - http://www.ardsnet.org/ University Washington Medicine - https://covid-19.uwmedicine.org/Pages/default.aspx Nicole Kupchik,...

Send us your questions and comments! In our COVID-19 Critical Care series we are hitting you with the fundamentals of critical care that you may need when caring for COVID-19 patients.  In this episode we cover non-invasive positive pressure ventilation and continuous positive airway pressure ventilation.  References Keenan, S. et.al. (2011). Clinical practice guidelines for the use of noninvasive...

Send us your questions and comments! This podcast was recorded on March 13, 2020. The content of the podcast may change as new information becomes available. Always check with your local resources and sources with credible references. One of the places resuscitation begins is at the front door. In this episode we provide practical tips for nursing care for patients with suspected or confirmed COVI...

Send us your questions and comments! We are pleased to have the trailblazer Tammy Lowe and THE Korbin Haycock on the show to share their amazing Nurse Point of Care Ultrasound program, one of the only programs in the world (to our knowledge - please correct us if we're wrong... we'd love to learn more!). Their Nurse Point of Care Ultrasound program was published in the Annals of Emergenc...

Send us your questions and comments! Allan and Rob have the privilege of having a chat with Alin Gragossian about the days before her illness, heart transplant, and return to her work as an emergency medicine resident. Follow Alin! Website - https://www.achangeofhe.art/ Twitter: @ag_em33 Instagram: @a_change_of_heart_blog Checkout our education programs at ROSC Healthcare  - www.roschealthcare.com

Send us your questions and comments! Do ED ICUs save lives? Probably. The paper in question is by Gunnerson et al and can be found here. Scott Weingart's work on ED ICUs can be found here.  Checkout our education programs at ROSC Healthcare  - www.roschealthcare.com

Send us your questions and comments! Allan and Rob talk about learning in the clinical environment. Main topics -  The relationship matters Intentionality in clinical conversations What's the yield on your clinical questions? Some interesting papers -  Eva, Kevin & Regehr, Glenn. (2008). “I'll never play professional football” and other fallacies of self-assessment. The Journal of co...

Send us your questions and comments! Nyssa from The Q Word Podcast is on the show to talk about the one thing we should be practicing the most: Resuscitation Langauge, coined Resuscitese. References https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(14)00878-6/fulltext https://emcrit.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Improving-Verbal-Communication-in-Critical-Care.pdf https://emcrit.org/emcrit/learning-speak-r...

Send us your questions and comments! Allan and Rob's final ResusX Series Podcast where they talk about the Zero Point Survey and its place in the resus room with our friends EM Centered ( emcentered.com ) and Salim Rezaie ( rebelem.com ).  Zero Point Survey further reading- Cliff Ried's Paper - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6166036/ EMCRIT's post with Cliff Ried - htt...

Send us your questions and comments! We had the opportunity to present The Nurse Led Code and facilitate a Code Choreography workshop to the attendees at ResusX. Needless to say, it was a humbling to learn alongside the curious, bad ass physicians that attended. We even had the chance to talk to Scott Weingart about The Nurse Led Code which was pretty cool, given that his podcast was the first pla...

Send us your questions and comments! Allan and Rob travelled to Philadelphia for the ResusX and MedED Evolved Conferences.  Philly cheese steaks were consumed, learning occurred, and podcasts were made.   The next few episodes will be a mini-series recorded with some new friends from ResusX and MedED Evolved! Checkout our education programs at ROSC Healthcare  - www.roschealthcare.com

Send us your questions and comments! Allan and Rob have the privilege of sitting down with Salim Rezaie of RebelEM to talk about cervical spine collars and backboard in the ED.  RebelEM has has already extensively covered the evidence on collars and backboards. You can find their blog posts and links below. 1. Spinal immobilization in trauma patients 2. Cervical spine evaluation and clearance in t...

Send us your questions and comments! Rob recounts the story of his first traumatic cardiac arrest as a paramedic.   CPR doesn't make sense in a traumatic arrest where hemorrhagic and obstructive shock are the suspected etiology A 'three hole punch' are bilateral finger thoracostomies and a pericardialcentesis is one way to decompress the chest in blunt traumatic cardiac arrest The n...