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Critical Care , Airway , Critical Care Alert

Critical Care Alert: Comparing Early APRV and LTV in ARDS Patients in ICU

3/27/2018 Sean M. Hickey, MD
Our March 2018 Critical Care Alert compares early use of APRV and LTV in ARDS patients in ICU.
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Medical Education , Sepsis , Critical Care

SIRS Criteria: A Nidus for Bias and How to Minimize It

1/31/2018 Erich Burton, DO , Michael Stanley, DO
SIRS Criteria: A Nidus for Bias and How to Minimize It As the use of SIRS persists, it’s worth re-examining its intended application, potential for error, and current utility. With the removal of Sys
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Critical Care , Critical Care Alert

Critical Care Alert: Incidence of Coronary Intervention in Cardiac Arrest Survivors with Non-shockable Initial Rhythms and No Evidence of STEMI

1/2/2018 Jonathan Jaffe, MD
Critical Care Alert: Incidence of Coronary Intervention in Cardiac Arrest Survivors with Non-shockable Initial Rhythms and No Evidence of STEMI A 59-year-old male presents to the emergency department
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Critical Care , Clinical , Critical Care Alert

Critical Care ALERT! Apneic Oxygenation in RSI

12/4/2017 Yanika Wolfe, MD
Critical Care ALERT! Apneic Oxygenation in RSI A 57-year-old male presents to the emergency department for shortness of breath. He became more hypoxic despite applying NIPPV. You decided to proceed w
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Critical Care , Clinical , Critical Care Alert

Critical Care Alert: Angiotensin II for the Treatment of Vasodilatory Shock (ATHOS-III)

12/4/2017 Sam Khan, MD
Critical Care Alert: Angiotensin II for the Treatment of Vasodilatory Shock (ATHOS-III) A 68-year-old female with recurrent UTIs presents to the ED with 3 days of fever, back pain, and dysuria. She i
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Critical Care

Who Ya Gonna Call?! A Primer on Left Ventricular Assist Device Emergencies

11/30/2017 Rohit B. Sangal, MD , Melissa Geary, MD , Abdulaziz Almehlisi, MD
Who Ya Gonna Call?! A Primer on Left Ventricular Assist Device Emergencies Background Patients with end-stage systolic heart failure (defined as New York Heart Association Class IV or Ejection Fracti
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The Crashing Patient with Critical Aortic Stenosis

10/3/2017 Ram Parekh, MD , Mark Andreae, MD
The Crashing Patient with Critical Aortic Stenosis A 90-year-old male with a past medical history of severe aortic stenosis, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, and chronic kidney disease p
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Critical Care

Post-Intubation Sedation

8/9/2017 Joshua Glick, MD , Clark Owyang, MD , Christina Candeloro, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
Post-Intubation Sedation Bridging the Gap Between the Emergency Department and the Intensive Care Unit The practice of endotracheal intubation is often executed as follows: the endotracheal tube is p
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Critical Care

Beyond ATLS: What the Manual Doesn't Tell You

6/5/2017 Ram Parekh, MD , Clark Owyang, MD
Beyond ATLS: What the Manual Doesn't Tell You All these factors coalesce in the trauma bay to create a downward spiral of shock where life-saving interventions wrestle with each other as the patient
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Positively Useful: A Brief ED Guide to NIPPV

6/5/2017 Julie Dodson, MD , Jeffrey Goodloe, MD, NREMT-P, FACEP , Chance Dodson, MSII , Boyd Burns, DO
Positively Useful: A Brief ED Guide to NIPPV It is important for the emergency physician to be comfortable directing and troubleshooting NIPPV in order to promote optimal patient outcomes. Paramedics