BVM or Bust
For pediatric intubation, this calculation is commonly used to determine the correct depth of tube insertion.
What is the formula: tube size × 3 for depth in cm?
The combination of hypothermia, coagulopathy, and acidosis in a trauma patient is classified under this name.
What is the lethal trauma triad? (or trauma triad of death)
This medication is used in suspected opioid overdose and can turn a calm scene into a WWE match in under 10 seconds.
What is Naloxone (Narcan)?
This is the anatomical term for the imaginary line that runs through the center of the armpit.
What is Mid-Axillary line?
This cellular process is the final common pathway of shock, where inadequate oxygen delivery forces cells to switch to this far less efficient form of metabolism.
What is anaerobic metabolism?
This phenomenon during BVM ventilation increases intrathoracic pressure, reducing venous return and worsening hypotension.
What is overventilation or excessive positive pressure?
Spinal Cord Injuries at this vertebral level or higher often require long-term ventilator therapy.
What is C5?
This cardiac med can convert certain SVTs back to normal, but only after giving your entire team a moment of panic.
What is adenosine?
In children with traumatic injuries, this vital sign is often the most reliable indicator of shock.
What is heart rate?
This type of AV block has PR intervals of > 0.20 seconds that get progressively longer until a QRS complex is “dropped”?
What is Second degree heart block or Mobitz II (formerly called wenckebach)
The most common pediatric airway obstruction in children under the age of 3 years, often caused by a viral infection.
What is Croup?
This splint looks like a medieval torture device but is actually great for mid-shaft femur fractures.
What is a traction splint?
This is the purpose of adding lactate to Lactated Ringer’s solution.
What is it's converted to bicarbonate in the body and acts as a hydrogen ion buffer.
Also the latin word for keel, this is the name of the anatomical point where the trachea bifurcates into two lungs.
What is carina?
This device, often implanted in children with hydrocephalus, helps drain cerebrospinal fluid.
What is a shunt? (Specifically, ventriculoperitoneal shunt)
This airway pressure—as measured during BVM ventilation—should be kept below ~20 cmH₂O to reduce the risk of stomach inflation.
What is Peak Inspiratory Pressure (PIP)?
In cases of severe pediatric head injury, this type of breathing pattern may indicate worsening neurological function.
What is Cheyne-Stokes breathing?
This medication, given early in major trauma, works by inhibiting plasminogen activation—essentially putting the brakes on fibrinolysis—and is most effective when administered within this critical time window.
What is tranexamic acid (TXA), and what is within 3 hours of injury?
This is how infants increase their cardiac output due to their limited ability to increase contractility.
What is increased heart rate?
This type of intracranial bleed is classically associated with a “lucid interval” before rapid deterioration.
What is an epidural hematoma?
This view—described by a four-grade scale—is used to categorize how much of the glottis is visible during direct laryngoscopy.
What is Cormack-Lehane?
This condition is identified when the patient is symptomatic of a spinal cord injury but radiology shows no damage to the spinal cord and spine.
Spinal Cord Injury without Radiologic Abnormality (SCIWORA)
This medication is not given to children due to the risk of Reyes syndrome
What is Aspirin?
This adrenal hormone, released during acute stress, increases glucose availability, enhances vascular responsiveness to catecholamines, and supports blood pressure in shock.
What is cortisol?
This toxidrome features diaphoresis, salivation, urination, lacrimation, and vomiting—basically every fluid leaving every orifice.
What is cholinergic toxicity (SLUDGE)?