|
Remember, analgesics have sedating properties, sedatives have no analgesic properties...All of the cric's I have performed were with either no medications or just an opioid. In a perfect world and what I carry now, is ketamine. It serves all purposes for an emergency airway.
The last one a friend of mine did on a cop, no meds were used and a successful cric was performed in the field.
Crip, are you issued ketamine or just fentanyl or morphine with your versed?
ss
__________________
'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
|