Chris Root

I don’t care if you’ve done the procedure a million times. Always check your equipment. Especially if you just woke up.

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Hot off the press! 📰 Prehospital endotracheal intubation success rates for critical care nurses versus paramedics (tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…) TL;DR - both groups are awesome. Just in time for #NAEMSP2025, too! @cmartingill @Guyettef @stat_medevac @PittEMSDocs @upmcem

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🧵 Managing Challenging Behaviours in Resuscitation Teams: A Thread for Team Leaders (1/13) Every resuscitation team leader can face difficult team dynamics Here are 6 key challenging behaviours you'll encounter and how to manage them effectively in real-time 🚨

Really excited to attest the notes while my resident does all the work today in the trauma bay.

Prehospital ECMO simulation training with Albuquerque Fire Rescue’s ECMO-1, UNM EMS Physicians, and UNM EM-Critical Care #EMS #EmergencyMedicine

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Now that I’m at a job where “safety naps” are encouraged Im realizing how silly&unsafe it was for my prev EMS gig to write u up/threaten to fire u if u got caught napping b/w calls. I know, it’s a PR thing, but maybe posting on a street corner for 16 hrs is the issue, not naps?🫶

Crashing or Arrested Pulmonary Embolism Quick Reference Guide I made for MY OWN practice in non-ECMO centres without access to inhaled nitric oxide or other specific pulmonary vasodilators Evidence base = thin Official endorsement = none Experience = limited Not for junior clinicians to veer from accepted guidelines!

@DitchDoc14 @HansvanSchuppen @ResusPadawan @amerelman @DarrenBraude Compass is also all I’m familiar with. Would be awesome if there was something similar that could give BP beat to beat without a full transducer set up.

@HansvanSchuppen HT @ResusPadawan @ChrisRootMD @amerelman @DarrenBraude

Any prehospital services/HEMS use a small bedside invasive bloodpressure monitor for arterial lines? I have seen the compass but this only shows MAP.

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The majority do not include naloxone in their OHCA protocol. thesgem.com/2024/09/sgem45… @ChrisRootMD @HeartandStroke @AHAScience

Naloxone in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA)? thesgem.com/2024/09/sgem45… #PaperinaPic by @KirstyChallen #EBM

@doctorwibble We probably did, just like we all agreed to use the metric system. But here I am in New Mexico with 50 lbs of blue ketamine stickers…

@ChrisRootMD I thought we had all come to agreement on a common drug labelling system?

I love this method for RSI we use on flight: the 3 stop-cock IV method. Closest to patient: sedative Middle: paralytic Farthest: push-dose pressor Streamlines your med delivery for rapid, efficient, and safe intubation. #EMS #RSI #emergencymedicine

@doctorwibble Believe it or not, our ketamine stickers are blue, our cannulas don’t have that extra ports like yours do, and we took one of the a’s out of anaesthesia, but I won’t tell you which one. 🇺🇸 🦅 🎇

@MDtheDO @ChrisRootMD @ResusPadawan @jstgeorgemd You appear to be missing the hypnotic. You’d better plumb in another three way tap. Or just give it through the cannula port.

Does your EMS system have a protocol that includes giving naloxone to adult patients with an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA)? #EBM #FOAMed thesgem.com/2024/09/sgem45… @ChrisRootMD @EMSWorldOFCL @EMS1 @hp_ems @EMSBlogs @OverrunEMS

@MDtheDO @ResusPadawan @jstgeorgemd It’s effective for RSI and also for summoning a bolus of anaesthetists.

@rachelgemma90 @MDtheDO @ResusPadawan @jstgeorgemd The tubing actually comes out of the package with the bridge built in. Once the line is primed, you’re ready to go. Works pretty well for us.

@MDtheDO @ChrisRootMD @ResusPadawan @jstgeorgemd I guarantee, in the time it would take me to figure out how to connect it all together, I could have just done it the old fashioned way.