Harbor:Procedures Videos

Airway Management

• Bag-mask ventilation

• Orotracheal intubation
  • Cricoid pressure as advised by the video is controversial

• Procedural sedation

Vascular Access

• Internal jugular central venous catheter (CVC) insertion

• Subclavian central venous catheter (CVC) insertion

• Femoral central venous catheter (CVC) insertion
  • Non-ultrasound guided ("blind") procedure
  • Introduces sheath introducer catheter (large-bore, Cordis)

• Interosseous line placement

• Umbilical central line placement
  • Umbilical vein (more likely to be used in ED) and umbilical artery

• Transvenous pacemaker insertion
  • Drexel video
  • EM:RAP HD video

• External jugular peripheral IV placement

• Ultrasound-guided peripheral IV placement

• Arterial line insertion

Wound Care

• Basic laceration repair

• Additional suture techniques for complex lacerations
  • Buried sutures, vertical and horizontal mattress sutures, running sutures
  • Video produced by the Duke plastic surgery program

• Corner stitch
  • For stellate or V-shaped lacerations

• Figure-of-eight suture
  • To achieve hemostasis of superficial vascular bleeding

• Abscess incision and drainage

• Paronychia drainage

"Centeses"

• Paracentesis

• Lumbar puncture

• Needle aspiration of pneumothorax

• Thoracentesis

• Pigtail catheter thoracostomy
  • Step-by-step instructions
  • Procedure on a real patient
  • Can be considered for spontaneous or small traumatic pneumothorax

• Pericardiocentesis

Trauma

• Chest tube insertion

• Surgeon's knots
  • One- and two- handed ties

• ED Thoracotomy

Orthopedic

• Basic splinting techniques

• Anterior shoulder dislocation reduction
  • Davos technique
  • Ten techniques including Stimson, Cunningham, Fares

• Arthrocentesis of knee
• Arthrocentesis of wrist

Nerve Blocks

• Digital nerve block