If you mainly treat adults or both adults and children like me, then you have probably heard the (very annoying) quote, “kids are not just small adults”, and so I won’t say it again. Well, I guess I just did, but at least I wont stop at this quote, but attempt to explain how kids…
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast Episode 94: Organ Donation with Clint Burns Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 10 seconds 00:00 / 42:02 Subscribe Share In this episode, episode 94, I welcome Clint Burns to the show. Clint received a liver transplant in 1994, then…
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast Episode 93: CABG with Tom Metkus Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 10 seconds 00:00 / 58:52 Subscribe Share In the episode, episode 93, I welcome Dr. Tom Metkus back to the show to discuss perioperative considerations for CABG surgery….
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast Episode 92: Early Mobility in the PICU with Sapna Kudchadkar Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 10 seconds 00:00 / 42:47 Subscribe Share In this episode, episode 92, I welcome Dr. Sapna Kudchadkar to the show to discuss her PICU…
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast Episode 91: Perioperative evaluation for non-cardiac surgery with Tom Metkus Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 10 seconds 00:00 / 55:41 Subscribe Share Source link
During a busy resuscitation it behooves the ED resuscitationist to avoid ordering therapies that have no clear benefit to their patients. Our nurses are overburdened, and adding interventions ‘just to be safe’ or ‘because we always do it’ is a great way to overwhelm our nursing colleagues. Bicarb administration is a contentious issue and many…
Choosing Your Initial Settings: I hope you now see what physiologies to consider when setting up the ventilator and your goals for each. If your patient doesn’t fit into one of these three categories, then I set up my ventilator as if I was managing a patient who has refractory hypoxemia to maintain a lung protective…
The use of heated and humidified high flow nasal cannula has become increasing popular in the treatment of patients with acute respiratory failure through all age groups. In part 1 we summarized how High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC) works. In part 2, we will discuss the main indications for its use in adult and pediatric…
The use of heated and humidified high flow nasal cannula (HFNC) has become increasingly popular in the treatment of patients with acute respiratory failure through all age groups. I first started using it as a pediatric intensive care fellow, but had little knowledge of how it actually worked. I noticed a few years after using…
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast Episode 90: OSA Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 10 seconds 00:00 / 20:17 Subscribe Share In this episode, episode 90, I discuss best practices for preoperative management of adults with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). CME: https://earnc.me/50qCDS Outline by April…