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Presented for CEUs on November 7th, 2024 at the California ENA's Annual Education Day. Will be presented at CCTMC in April 2024!

• The ASAM clinical practice guideline on alcohol withdrawal management

  • https://www.asam.org/quality-care/clinical-guidelines/alcohol-withdrawal-management-guideline

• Managing Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome

  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196064424001057

• Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)

  • https://nida.nih.gov/sites/default/files/files/AUDIT.pdf

• The "Prediction of Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Scale" (PAWSS): systematic literature review and pilot study of a new scale for the prediction of complicated alcohol withdrawal syndrome.

  • https://www.psychdb.com/_media/addictions/etoh_pawss_score_maldonando_.pdf

• Addiction Medicine Essentials - Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment of Alcohol Scale, Revised (CIWA-Ar)

  • https://www.ci2i.research.va.gov/paws/pdfs/ciwa-ar.pdf

• Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol–Revised might be an unreliable tool in the management of alcohol withdrawal

  • https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5597013/pdf/0630691.pdf

• Validity and Reliability of an Alcohol Withdrawal Clinical Assessment Scale for Use with Acutely Ill Patients: An Abbreviated Version of the CIWA-Ar

  • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326514798_Validity_and_Reliability_of_an_Alcohol_Withdrawal_Clinical_Assessment_Scale_for_Use_with_Acutely_Ill_Patients_An_Abbreviated_Version_of_the_CIWA-Ar

• Working Toward a Gold Standard: The Severity of Ethanol Withdrawal Scale (SEWS) Versus the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment Alcohol Scale (CIWA-Ar)

  • https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10168711/

• Dexmedetomidine as adjunct treatment for severe alcohol withdrawal in the ICU

  • https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3464179/

• Adjuvant Dexmedetomidine in Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium: Case Series

  • https://journals.lww.com/mjdy/fulltext/2023/16001/adjuvant_dexmedetomidine_in_treatment_of_alcohol.30.aspx

• EmCrit Alcohol Withdrawal

  • https://emcrit.org/ibcc/etoh/

Presented for CEUs on May 22nd, 2024 at CFED 2024 in Indian Wells, CA. Additional availability pending. Below are the links offered as resources.

• ROME Method ABG Interpretation

  • https://www.registerednursern.com/rome-method-abg-interpretation-uncompensated-vs-compensated/

• ABG Tic tac toe

  • https://nurseslabs.com/arterial-blood-gas-abgs-interpretation-guide/

• Winter's formula revisited

  • https://pulmonarychronicles.com/index.php/pulmonarychronicles/article/view/512/1131

• Henderson-Hasselbach Equation

  • https://chem.libretexts.org/Ancillary_Materials/Reference/Organic_Chemistry_Glossary/Henderson-Hasselbach_Equation

• All about Base Excess

  • https://acutecaretesting.org/en/articles/all-about-base-excess--to-be-or-not-to-be

• PaCO2-EtCO2 Gradient: Don't forget the bubbles

  • https://dontforgetthebubbles.com/the-paco2-etco2-gradient/

• Predictive Value of Capnography for Suspected Diabetic Ketoacidosis in the Emergency Department

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3876300/

• Comparing QSOFA Scores to EtCO2 as Mortality Predictors in Prehospital Patients with Suspected Sepsis

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5942006/

• Partial Pressures - Virginia Tech School of Medicine

  • https://med.libretexts.org/Courses/Virginia_Tech_Carilion_School_of_Medicine/Pulmonary_Physiology_for_Pre-Clinical_Students_(Binks)/07%3A_Fundamentals_of_Gas_Exchange/7.01%3A_Partial_pressures#:~:text=Full%20Book-,Page,-Downloads

• EtCO2 as a predictor of patient outcomes

  • https://www.emra.org/emresident/article/cca-etco2

• Hyperventilation in adult TBI

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7875871/

• Full References (PDF from my Google Drive) Click Here

Presented for CEUs on September 7th, 2024 at the ENA National Conference in Las Vegas, NV and on May 21, 2024 at CFED 2024 in Indian Wells, CA.

• Life in the Fast Lane - Pacemaker Rhythms

  • https://litfl.com/pacemaker-rhythms-normal-patterns/

• Refractory septic shock: our pragmatic approach

  • https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-018-2144-4

• Vasopressor Nonresponse NUEM Blog

  • https://www.nuemblog.com/blog/vasopressor-nonresponse

• EmCrit Vasopressors

  • https://emcrit.org/ibcc/pressors/

• Alternative Pharmacological Management of Vasopressor Extravasation in the Absence of Phentolamine

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5565133/

• PulmCrit - High Dose Vasopressors

  • https://emcrit.org/pulmcrit/high-dose-vasopressor/

• Vasopressin in Sepsis and Other Shock States: State of the Art

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10672256/

• Full References (PDF from my Google Drive) Here

Presented for CEUs on January 8th, 2024 for the California State Trauma Committee and November 7th, 2024 for the California ENA Education Day

• ACS TQIP – Massive Transfusion in Trauma Guidelines

  • https://www.facs.org/media/zcjdtrd1/transfusion_guildelines.pdf

• Hypocalcemia in Military Casual<es From Point of Injury to Surgical Teams in Afghanistan

  • https://emcrit.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/MilMed.pdf

• Calcium Part 1 – Labpedia

  • https://labpedia.net/calcium-part-1-serum-calcium-total-hypercalcemia-and-hypocalcemia/

• The diamond of death: Hypocalcemia in trauma and resuscitation

  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0735675720311852?via%3Dihub

• Joint Trauma System CPG – Damage Control Resuscitation

  • https://jts.health.mil/assets/docs/cpgs/Damage_Control_Resuscitation_12_Jul_2019_ID18.pdf

• Hypocalcemia as a predictor of mortality and transfusion. A scoping review of hypocalcemia in trauma and hemostatic resuscitation. Transfusion. 2022

  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/trf.16965

• A retrospective analysis of calcium levels in pediatric trauma patients. Int J Burns Trauma. 2021

  • https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8310872/

• Forgot calcium? Admission ionized-calcium in two civilian randomized controlled trials of prehospital plasma for traumatic hemorrhagic shock. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020

  • https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7802822/

• Coagulation complications following trauma. Military Med Resus. 2016

  • https://mmrjournal.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/s40779-016-0105-2.pdf

• The diamond of death: Hypocalcemia in trauma and resuscitation. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2021

  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0735675720311852?via%3Dihub