Workplace wellbeing in emergency departments in Aotearoa New Zealand 2020.

Aim: To quantify staff burnout and wellbeing in emergency departments (EDs) throughout New Zealand (NZ).

Methods: A national cross sectional electronic survey of New Zealand clinical and non-clinical ED staff was conducted between 9 March and 3 April 2020. Burnout and wellbeing were assessed using the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) and a variety of quantitative measures.

Facilitators, barriers and opportunities in workplace wellbeing: A national survey of emergency department staff.

Introduction: Emergency department (ED) staff face daily exposure to the illness, injury, intoxication, violence and distress of others. Rates of clinician burnout are high and associated with poor patient outcomes. This study sought to measure the prevalence of burnout in ED personnel as well as determine the important facilitators of and barriers to workplace wellbeing.

Airway management by US and Canadian emergency medicine residents: a multicenter analysis of more than 6,000 endotracheal intubation attempts.

Study Objective: We determine success rates of endotracheal intubation performed in emergency departments (EDs) by North American emergency medicine residents.

Methods: During 58 months, physicians performing intubations at 31 university-affiliated EDs in 3 nations completed a data form that was entered into the National Emergency Airway Registry 2 database. Included were all patients undergoing endotracheal intubation in the ED.

Best of both (BOB) maneuver for rapid reduction of anterior shoulder dislocation.

This article describes a combination maneuver for the reduction of anterior glenohumeral dislocations. It maximizes the force counter to the patient's musculature by using downward motion, with the physician's body mass and gravity doing the work, and the base of the ED gurney providing countertraction. It couples this force with the benefit of a scapulothoracic manipulation maneuver, which rotates the glenoid fossa into a position more amenable to "reaccepting" the humeral head.

Underdosing of midazolam in emergency endotracheal intubation.

Objectives: To determine whether midazolam, when used as an induction agent for emergency department (ED) rapid-sequence intubation (RSI), is used in adequate and recommended induction doses (0.1 to 0.3 mg/kg), and to compare the accuracy of the dosing of midazolam for ED RSI with the accuracy of dosing of other agents.

Rapid sequence intubation for pediatric emergency airway management.

Objectives: To characterize current practice with respect to pediatric emergency airway management using a multicenter data set.

Methods: A multicenter collaboration was undertaken to gather data prospectively regarding emergency intubation. Analysis of data on adult emergency department (ED) intubations clearly demonstrated that rapid sequence intubation (RSI) was the method used most often.