Alcohol Withdrawal, CIWA
Houston VAMolly Maple is a 52 year old who came through the ER. She was found at home by family passed out. The family reports she drinks heavily and thinks she passed out drunk. She came to the ER alert and oriented x 3. She is ambulatory but stumbles occasionally. She...
Molly Maple is a 52 year old who came through the ER. She was found at home by family passed out. The family reports she...
PALS Assessment And Resuscitation
Sacramento VAMCA six-year-old boy presents to a community ED BIBA with mom in acute distress. Learners must use their PALS training to perform an initial, primary, and secondary assessment and effectively manage the patient’s clinical condition. This case has two different clinical presentations for the learner to address appropriately. The moderator...
A six-year-old boy presents to a community ED BIBA with mom in acute distress. Learners must use their PALS training to perform an initial, primary,...
Tracheostomy Complications—Chronic Tracheostomy with Tracheoinnominate Fistula
NYU Grossman School of MedicinePatient is a 65-year-old man with prolonged recovery from ARDS due to pneumonia, requiring continued mechanical ventilatory support, who underwent percutaneous tracheostomy insertion 20 days ago. The learner is called to the bedside by the MICU nurse due to bright red blood oozing from the tracheostomy and from the stoma....
Patient is a 65-year-old man with prolonged recovery from ARDS due to pneumonia, requiring continued mechanical ventilatory support, who underwent percutaneous tracheostomy insertion 20 days...