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Setting Up The Pediatric High Flow Ventilator
Parts of the Ventilator Setting up the Ventilator Here’s a video of an RT demonstrating the same thing.
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Infant T-piece ventilator
Dr. Rice showed us how to use the T-piece ventilator for neonates and infants. The video shows how it’s done.
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Transvenous Pacer
This is another video based on the procedures we reviewed during the OPPE session from May 6, 2024. This one is on the use of the transvenous pacer in the ED. Placement of the CORDIS in the IJ The first step is placing a Cordis line in the internal jugular under ultrasound guidance. Once the…
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Paracentesis Safety Needle
The paracentesis safety needle has a blunt tip to help avoid puncture bowel during insertion. When pressure is applied to the tip, the ring turns red, and the blunt end retracts exposing the sharp end. This allows the needle to penetrate through skin and other tissues. When there is no pressure on the tip, the…
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Occlusion MI
Our goal in diagnosing acute coronary syndromes is not to diagnose ST-elevations but coronary artery occlusions leading to myocardial infarction (OMI). In the past, we diagnosed heart attacks by looking for Q-waves, thus missing all the ST-elevations. EKG manifestations only are a marker for what’s going on underneath. Within the broad bucket of NSTEMI, 25%…
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Ultrasound of Achilles Tendon
This can be visualized in both a short and long view. Pain in the tendon, good story plus ultrasound can be diagnostic. Track the tendon down using the probe. Here’s the long view with an intact and ruptured tendon. Here’s the short view. Shoulder Shoulder dislocations can also be visualized on ultrasound. Start posterior and…
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Navigating the Rush IRB Site
This guide will help you enter the Rush IRB site and submit your research proposal. You’ll need to have completed your IRB and CITI training before you’ll be given access to this site. Step 1: Log into the Rush IRB portal Click onto the link for the site, http://rrp.rush.edu, and the link for logging in is…
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Introduction to Quality Improvement
Quality Improvement is the business of making healthcare better. This is based on the same systems that drove Toyota to become a world leader in making cars. They concentrated on constantly making their processes better. Seems like the same should apply to healthcare. In fact, Paul Batalden said, “In healthcare everyone has two jobs: to…
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Understanding “Human Error”
Humans make mistakes. Any system that depends on perfect performance by humans is doomed to failure. In fact, the risk of an accident is more a function of the complexity of the system than it is the people involved. Humans are not the weak link in a process. We are a source resilience. We have…
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Fuzzy Matches in Google Sheets
When trying to build our curriculum inventory I needed to match thousands of strings in Google Sheets. Doing this manually would have been tedious and prone to error. The EQ function would fail if there was one character different, forget about objectives that had words shifted around. Here’s my script that outputs the percentage of…
