I made a comment once on Twitter that if I ever became a physician, the specialty I would go into would be anesthesiology. Why? Anesthesiologists have time and again done such innovative things with medications in the operating room that have made their way into the practice of emergency medicine. One example that comes to… Read More

It’s one of those things that gets hammered into the head of nearly every EM resident by their attendings during their training. That little nugget of information related to rapid sequence intubation (RSI) that is woven into the curriculum and gets passed on from class to class of EM residents who will go on to… Read More

If anyone remembers studying for their SAT’s back in the day, complete this sequence: If SUX sucks, and ROC rocks, then Sugammedex _________. In a word, “unavailable.”  Sugammadex is a selective muscle relaxant-binding agent. As a result of its chemical structure, modified cyclodextrin compound with a hydrophilic outer surface and a lipophilic central cavity, sugammadex… Read More