ENT Reviews Numerous Medical Scenes from Film and TV [VIDEO]

Over the past few weeks, I have created several videos on YouTube critically reviewing numerous ENT-related medical scenes from TV and film including Grey's Anatomy, House, Chicago Med, Private Practice, Family Guy, The Heat, Cardiac Arrest, etc. ENT topics covered include nasal spray addiction (above) as well as videos below covering emergency trach/crics , severe nosebleed management , otosclerosis , and a severe headache due to Sluder's neuralgia. Depending on how well thes…

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Submental Intubation [video]

Holy moly... Never realized submental intubation was actually a procedure that really is performed. Check out this video (or watch below) showing a submental intubation being performed. First, an incision is created right below the jawline slightly off from midline. Dissection is bluntly carried right to the floor of the mouth under the tongue. The endotracheal tube is than grasped and pulled through this opening resulting in a submental intubation. Seems quick and elegant with minimal b…

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Life-Saving Emergency Trach Performed in Restaurant

On Sept 23, 2013, a physician performed a life-saving emergency tracheotomy in a restaurant on a patron who was choking on a piece of meat. [ link ] While eating dinner at The Mark Restaurant in California,  Dr. Royce Johnson , an infectious disease doctor affiliated with UCLA, performed this procedure on Pauline Larwood, a female supervisor and a community college trustee. Dr. Johnson saved this woman's life using a pocket knife and the hollow cylinder of a pen after a Heimlich maneu…

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Keychain Emergency Airway Device (Video)

Health professionals who know how to perform cricothyroidotomy to obtain an emergency airway in someone who is obstructing can appreciate a nifty keychain device called LifeStat . LifeStat can be carried around and immediately utilized to perform emergency cricothyroidotomy in any setting. Watch a video here to see how it works. It can be purchase from Shippert Medical for $145 here . Reference: Utilization of the LifeStat emergency airway device . Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 2008 Ja…

9/10/2011 0

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Best Ballpoint Pen for Emergency Cricothyroidotomy?

I recently blogged about a man who choked to death on an airplane and the impossibility of saving this man's life with a surgical airway like a cricothyroidotomy without a sharp object around inside the plane (ie, knife or scalpel). I also stated that "Some surgeons would argue a strong, stiff ball-point pen could have been used to perform the cricothyroidotomy, but as someone who has performed a dozen emergency cricothyroidotomies and tracheotomies in the past, even under the b…

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