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Rich Levitan teaches the VAPORS pneumonic: a quick run-through of the main issues to sort prior
teaches the VAPORS pneumonic ... Resuscitate the patient ... from Scotland #Management ... Intubation #VAPORS #Mnemonic ... #Checklist
Extubation Checklist Mnemonic - MASCOTS
M - Mechanism (Underlying mechanism improving)
A - Airway (Patent, difficult intubation)
S -
Extubation Checklist ... Mnemonic - MASCOTS ... ) A - Airway (Patent ... #Mnemonic #MASCOTS ... #criticalcare #management
Consider using the mnemonic “D.O.P.E.S. like D.O.T.T.S.” to assist you in first diagnosing the problem (D.O.P.E.S.)
Consider using the mnemonic ... Crashing Ventilated Patient ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #DOPES #DOTTS #Mnemonic ... #Checklist
List of some common medications used in the operative setting, with their counterparts that look alike
to the proper patient ... #management #medication ... #anesthesia #anesthesiology ... #checklist
An important part of an anesthesiologist's job is obviously to ensure patient stability during a procedure,
obviously to ensure patient ... interaction with the patient ... #checklist #anesthesia ... #anesthesiology ... #management #preoperative
Salter Harris Fractures - Pediatric Fractures of the Physis 
SALTR Mnemonic 

Salter Harris I 
Straight through
Harris Fractures - Pediatric ... Physis SALTR Mnemonic ... Crush (Rammed) injury ... Fractures #SALTR #Mnemonic ... Orthopedics #Diagnosis #Management
Delirium: Top Tips

1. LOOK CAREFULLY FOR DELIRIUM 
2. HARNESS THE POWER OF THE FAMILY 
3. FIND/STOP
ORIENTATE YOUR PATIENT ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Geriatrics #Delirium ... Guidelines #PINCHME #Mnemonic
Intraoperative Patient Fire - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Evidence of fire (smoke, heat, odour, flash, flame)
Consider inhalational injury ... depending on degree of injury ... #Airway #Fire #Anesthesiology ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate (CICO) - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
This is the last resort when
optimal airway management ... Check that the patient ... Intubation #Difficult #Anesthesiology ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Efforts to standardize the approach to trauma have led to an algorithmic, thoughtless approach to trauma
delays CT in ill patients ... In critically injured ... blunt trauma patients ... #Management #Trauma ... BigTrauma #BeforeCT #Checklist