Resus Tonight - Critical Care and Emergency Nursing

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...

Send us your questions and comments! Alpha, beta, V1 and V2 receptor goodness is talked about in this episode. This episode also features Allan turning into The Rock. Inotropy means increased myocardial contractility Chronotropy means increased heart rate Vasopressor means squeezing of the blood vessels Scott Weingart (reference below) coins a term Inopressor, where some drugs cause all of the abo...

Send us your questions and comments! 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.  Checkout our education programs at ROSC Healthcare  - www.roschealthcare.com

Send us your questions and comments! 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 arrest Capnography is probably the single most useful tool for monitoring patient status...

Send us your questions and comments! This is part 2 of 2 of our interview with Landon and Monique from the NursEM Podcast. --- Twitter: @ResusTonight Checkout our education programs at ROSC Healthcare  - www.roschealthcare.com

Send us your questions and comments! 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 diff...

Send us your questions and comments! 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-cri...

Send us your questions and comments! 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 exam The pitfalls of the Glasgow Coma Scale Brain anatomy in ICP Checkout our education programs at ROSC Healthcare  - www.rosc...

Send us your questions and comments! Introductions to Allan, Rob, and the Resus Tonight vehicle. We're most active on Twitter @ResusTonight. Checkout our education programs at ROSC Healthcare  - www.roschealthcare.com