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Dustin Slagle, MD

Chair, EMRA Critical Care Committee 2024
Vice Chair, 2021-23

Fellowship: NYU Langone Health - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Residency: ChristianaCare
Medical school: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Critical Care Alert , Critical Care , Cardiology , Resuscitation

Critical Care Alert: Noninvasive Ventilation for Preoxygenation During Emergency Intubation

7/29/2024 Alex Lucas, MD , Josh Wild, DO , Gabriel Colon, MD , Luxi Qiao, MD, MPhil , Dustin Slagle, MD

Tracheal intubation is a critical procedure on patients who are already in crisis. Is it better to choose a mask or non-invasive ventilation for preoxygenation?

Critical Care Alert , Critical Care , Cardiology , Resuscitation

Critical Care Alert: Treatment of Refractory Cardiac Arrest by Controlled Reperfusion of the Whole Body

7/1/2024 Alex Lucas, MD , Josh Wild, DO , Gabriel Colon, MD , Dustin Slagle, MD

ECPR continues to show promising results for patients undergoing cardiac arrest. CARL technology implements a new design that provides comprehensive monitoring and multimodal therapy to address the un

Critical Care Ultrasound , Critical Care , Cardiology , Trauma

Advanced Critical Care Ultrasound: Use of Mitral Inflow Velocity Variation in Evaluation of Cardiac Tamponade

6/12/2024 Dominique Gelmann, MD , Dustin Slagle, MD , Jordan Seaback, MD , Jacob Schoeneck, MD

Pericardial tamponade is a medical emergency that requires rapid recognition and intervention. Ultrasound is therefore the ideal tool for helping make this diagnosis. In this installment of our Advanc

Deep Dive in CritCare , Critical Care , Neurology

Deep Dive into the Evidence: Monitoring and Management of Elevated Intracranial Pressure in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

6/11/2024 Luxi Qiao, MD, MPhil , Josh Wild, DO , Eleni McCaffery, MD , Dominique Gelmann, MD , Dustin Slagle, MD , Sung-Min Cho, DO, MHS

Elevated ICP is an emergent complication associated with injury to the brain. In this Deep Dive, we summarize the existing evidence regarding the monitoring and management of elevated intracranial pre

Critical Care Ultrasound , Ultrasound , Critical Care , Hematology

Advanced Critical Care Ultrasound: 3-Point DVT Study

2/22/2024 Christian Kasianko, MD , Dustin Slagle, MD

Deep venous thrombosis is a can't-miss diagnosis. Learn how to use the 3-point ultrasound exam to make sure DVTs do not go unnoticed.

Critical Care Alert , Critical Care , Airway , Toxicology

Critical Care Alert: Effect of Noninvasive Airway Management of Comatose Patients with Acute Poisoning: A Randomized Clinical Trial

2/22/2024 Alex Lucas, MD , Christian Kasianko, MD , Dustin Slagle, MD

How reliable is the old adage, "GCS less than 8, intubate"? A randomized trial examines the effect of intubation vs. noninvasive airway management for poisoned patients with GCS less than 8.

Critical Care Alert , Critical Care , Cardiology , Radiology

Critical Care Alert: The CT FIRST Cohort Study

6/26/2023 Annemarie Daecher, MD , Dustin Slagle, MD , Evan McMurray, MD

While it didn’t improve survival to hospital discharge or neurologic recovery vs the current standard of care, the sudden death CT (SDCT) protocol significantly improved the time and diagnostic abilit

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Critical Care Devices , Critical Care , Pulmonary , Airway

Critical Care Device Series: Heated High-Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC)

6/20/2023 Christine Yang, MD , Dustin Slagle, MD , Robert Jared Klemisch, MD

Heated high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) is capable of delivering 100% humidified and heated oxygen at higher flow rates, providing important support for patients with respiratory distress. Learn more ab

Critical Care Devices , Critical Care , Airway

Critical Care Device Series: Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation

5/2/2023 Christine Yang, MD , Alexandra Hallagan, MD , Dustin Slagle, MD , Gabriel Wardi, MD, MPH

Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) is the delivery of ventilatory support and positive pressure into the lungs without the need for an invasive endotracheal or tracheostomy tube. This su

Critical Care Ultrasound , Ultrasound , Critical Care , Cardiology

Advanced Critical Care Ultrasound: The 60/60 Sign, Let's Be Specific

10/24/2022 Dustin Slagle, MD , Parth S. Gandhi, DO , Ashley Panicker, MD, FACEP

The 60/60 sign is an ultrasound finding that can help increase specificity in diagnosing right ventricular dysfunction in the setting of an acute pulmonary embolism.

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