Fall: it’s that time of year when the PGY-1s start holding down the MICU.

If your MICU experience is like mine, you’ll get a few texts on the overnight from the medicine PGY-3s asking for help placing central lines. I’d put in a couple subclavians in the OR as a medical student and the venerable (legendary) Jason Mann had shown me some tricks, but I was definitely nervous being the go-to person.

Found these great videos for EM docs on central line placement. Most of the videos I’d seen before were showing you how to identify landmarks and such – these are a level beyond that and offer some great information and tricks for more expert line placement. Worth watching about once a year through residency.

Here’s part 1. Just search for parts 2-5 if it’s helpful.