EMERGENCY AND ICU PROCEDURES

Emergency room and intensive care patient procedures and tutorials. Information for nurses and physicians caring for the critical patient. Ventilators, arterial lines, CVP, ABG's, tracheotomies, etc.

• Related Topics:
  1. Nursing Procedures
  2. On-line Emergency Medicine Textbooks

A - C

• Abdominal radiograph, how to read an
• Acid-base balance
• Airway Suction
• Ankle Block
• Anorectal examination, how to do an
• Anterior Sciatic Nerve Block Parafemoral Technique
• Arterial Lines
• Assessment of anesthetic risk
• Axillary Brachial Plexus Block
• Axillary Nerve Block
• Bleeding per rectum
• Bleeding, lower gastrointestinal tract
• Bleeding, post-op
• Bleeding, upper gastrointestinal tract
• Blood transfusion
• Breech Birth
• Calcium
• Calcium, hypercalcemia
• Calcium, hypocalcemia
• Cardiovascular Overview
• Cardioversion
• Carpal Tunnel Repair
• Central IV Access
• Central Lines
• Central line, how to insert a
• Central Venous Catheter Line Change
• Central Venous Catheter Port Designation
• Central Venous Catheter Site Dressing
• Cesarean Section
• Chest Pain
• Chest Tube
• Chest Tube Insertion
• Chest-Tubes
• Cleaning Of Electrical Equipment Contaminated With Body Products
• Combined Lumbar Plexus - Sciatic Blocks
• Combined Spinal-Epidural Anesthesia
• Conscious Sedation - Help guide for Interns
• Continuous Femoral Nerve Block
• Continuous Infraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block
• Continuous Interscalene Brachial Plexus Block
• Continuous Popliteal Nerve Block: Intertendinous Approach
• Continuous Popliteal Nerve Block: Lateral Approach
• Continuous Sciatic Block
• Continuous Sciatic Block - Posterior Approach
• Cooling Of Patients
• CPAP Face Masks
• Cricothyroidotomy
• Cricothyrotomy
• Cricothyrotomy, Needle with Jet Insufflation
• CVP

D - J

• Deep Cervical Plexus Block
• Defibrillation
• Dental Nerve Blocks - Toothache remedies for the acute-care setting.
• Digital Nerve Block
• Digital Nerve Block
• Digital Nerve Block - Digital nerve blockade is simple and easy to perform and provides useful analgesia for a variety of minor surgical procedures. The technique is essentially the same for fingers and toes.
• Drawing ABG's/Analysis
• Drawing Blood Cultures
• Drawing Blood from a Central Line
• Drawing Blood from a Central Venous Catheter
• Drawing Blood Samples from a Radial / Femoral Arterial Lines on Adult Patients
• Dressing Changes To Radial / Femoral Arterial Lines
• ECP Accreditation
• Electricity In ICU/CCU
• Emergency Defibrillation
• Emergency Defibrillation
• Emergency Intubation
• Emergency Medicine Mnemonics
• Enteral Feeding
• Epidural Anesthesia
• Episiotomy
• Esophageal Tracheal Intubation
• Examine a lump, how to
• Examine an ulcer, how to
• Femoral Nerve Block
• Femoral Nerve Block
• Fluids, IV
• Genitofemoral Block
• Hand Splint
• Head Injury Principles
• Head Tilt-Chin Lift
• Heparin Lock For Central Venous Catheter Lines
• High Oxygen Delivery
• Humidification - Aerosol and Nebulizers
• Hypercalcemia
• Hyperkalemia
• Hypernatremia
• Hypocalcemia
• Hypodermoclysis
• Hypodermoclysis Technique
• Hypokalemia
• Hyponatremia
• IABP Review
• Ineffective Oxygen Delivery
• Infraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block
• Insertion Of An Arterial Line
• Insertion Of Nasogastric Tube
• Internal Jugular Vein Canulation
• Interscalene Block
• Intra-Abdominal Pressure Monitoring
• Intraosseous Access
• Intraosseous Access
• Intravenous Access
• Intravenous Fluids
• Intravenous Regional Nlock (Bier block)
• Intubation, Nasotracheal
• Intubation: Stomal
• Intubations
• IV Access
• Jaw Thrust

  L - R

• LBH Clinical Practice Manual
• Low Oxygen Delivery
• Low urine output, how to manage a
• Lumbar Plexus Block
• Lumbar Puncture
• Maintenance Of The Bed Area
• Mandibular Nerve Block - A new local anesthetic block technique to anaesthetize the inferior alveolar nerve (V3), a branch of the mandibular division of the Trigeminal or 5th. cranial nerve, is described.
• Maxillary Nerve Block: The Pterygopalitine Canal Approach -  Journal of the California Dental Association
• Median Nerve Block
• Medication Administration, MARK I Nerve Agent Antidote Kit
• Medication Administration, Midazolam
• Medication Administration, Rectal Valium
• Metacarpal Nerve Block
• Moderate Oxygen Delivery
• Monitoring Alarm Parameters
• Monitoring Alarms - ICU/CCU
• Nasogastric tube, how to insert a
• Nasopharyngeal Airway
• NCCLS Procedure for One Touch II Data Dock Blood Glucose Monitoring System
• Needle Thoracentesis
• Nursing Management: Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Oxygen Therapy (CPAP).
• Obturator Block
• Oropharyngeal Airway
• Orotracheal Intubation
• Oxygen Delivery
• Pacemakers
• PA-Lines
• Patient Receiving Ventilatory Assistance
• Peripheral IV Access
• PICC Line
• Plasmapheresis
• Popliteal Block: Intertendinous (Posterior) Approach
• Popliteal Block: Lateral Approach
• Popliteal Block: Lithotomy (supine) Approach
• Positive Pressure Ventilation
• Potassium, hyperkalemia
• Potassium, hypokalemia
• Procedure - Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm 1
• Procedure - Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm 2
• Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure Measure
• Pulmonary embolus
• Pulse Oximetry
• Radial Artery Puncture
• Radial Nerve Block
• Removal of Arterial Line
• Removal of Central Venous Line

  S - Z

• Saphenous Block
• Sciatic Nerve Block: Anterior Approach
• Sciatic Nerve Block: Posterior Approach
• Securing and Care of Endotracheal Tubes (ETT's)
• Sedation and Paralysis
• Sedation of Patients in Intensive Care Unit Anesthesiology - Med students of The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
• Sengstaken-Blakemore Tube
• Sepsis
• Setup and Insertion of Central Venous Catheter
• Setup and Insertion of Pulmonary Artery Catheter
• Sewing a Wound Closed
• Signs and Symptoms Web Resources Page: Bibliography for several emergency medicine signs and symptoms
• Snakebite Treatment
• Sodium, hypernatremia
• Sodium, hyponatremia
• Spinal Anesthesia
• Streptokinase
• Suctioning A Patient With A Tracheostomy Tube
• Suctioning A Patient With An Endotracheal Tube (ETT)
• Superficial Cervical Plexus Block
• Supraclavicular Interscalene Block
• Thoracic Paravertebral Block
• Thoracic Paravertebral Block: Continuous
• Thoraco-Lumbar Paravertebral Block
• Total Parenteral Nutrition
• Tracheostomy Dressing
• Transcutaneous Cardiac Pacing
• Transfer of Patients to Other Ward Areas
• Transfusion reactions
• Transfusion, blood
• Transfusion, massive
• Ulnar Nerve Block
• Umbilical Artery Catheter
• Umbilical Vein Catheter
• Underwater Seal Drainage
• Vaginal Birth
• Ventilator Circuit Setups and Assembly
• Ventilator Emergency
• Vents and ABG's
• Wrist Block

Also see the Nursing Procedures Section

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