Maintaining PPE and Protecting Health Care Professionals During COVID-19
The world has changed drastically over the last few months due to the spread of the highly contagious COVID-19. Many countries around the world have shut down or placed stay-at-home orders in order to flatten the curve and ultimately stop the spread of the virus....
Tips For Staying Healthy During The COVID-19 Pandemic
The world has changed a considerable amount in the past month or so. The Coronavirus pandemic has affected every aspect of our everyday lives, from shutting down the majority of businesses to the new practice of social distancing. During times like this, it’s...
Tips For Ultrasound Guided IV Placement
When working in a hospital you’ll occasionally encounter an unstable dialysis patient whose providers are struggling to give venous access to. At this point, many healthcare providers will use an ultrasound to find the vein they’re looking for, hopefully making things...
Using A Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block For The Treatment Of Headaches
When it comes to migraines and other primary headache disorders, the autonomic nervous system is typically involved, with the trigeminal nerve being the main nerve involved in them. The sphenopalatine ganglion is a collection of nerve cells that are closely associated...
How to Properly Use an Automated External Defibrillator
Thousands of individuals experience cardiac arrest each year, and a high number of these cases occur outside of hospitals. That means that these individuals are at a higher risk of complications, long-term health effects, and death; in fact, only around 10% of...
Decreasing Mortality Rates by Quickly Correcting Hyperkalemia in the ED
When an individual’s potassium levels are above 5.5 mEq/L, they may be diagnosed with hyperkalemia. The symptoms of hyperkalemia are often absent or go undetected, even in the emergency department (ED), but leaving this condition untreated can result in serious...
Palliative Emergency Medicine – What Is It?
When working in the emergency department, the number one goal is usually to prolong life. Success is usually achieved by avoiding a patient’s death, but sometimes it’s not possible. Depending on what the patient is there for you may have to consider if you’re just...
How One Triage Model Cuts ED Times
Many emergency departments have issues with overcrowding and long wait times which greatly affect the quality of the patient experience. Average wait time for most hospitals usually falls between 20 and 30 minutes depending on the hospital, with extreme wait times...
Medical Barriers In Rural Areas
Receiving medical attention in rural areas around the world can be difficult. Rural locations differ in every country but living in one typically comes with barriers that can make it extremely difficult to receive the medical care you might desire. A multitude of...
Using Queuing Theory In The ER
It seems like wait times in the emergency department are getting crazier every day. Research has found that waiting times in the emergency room have increased by 36% for all patients, averaging at a 30-minute wait per patient. The sickest patients are sometimes the...