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Grand Rounds Recap 02.17.21
This week Dr. Koehler has great teaching points on epistaxis, PRES and more during M&M. Dr. McMullan recounts a harrowing tale of compassion in a case follow up. Dr. Wosiski-Kuhn gives a timely reminder on carbon monoxide and cyanide toxicities followed by Dr. Roblee’s acidotic arrest case and Dr. Lane wraps up with some business need-to-knows of EM.
Grand Rounds Recap 02.10.2021
Dr. Duncan convinces us why we should always do a lung ultrasound. Dr. Iparraguirre shares how to break bad news to a patient. VP shunt complications and treatments with Dr. Kletsel. Visiting Professors Drs. Koyfman and Long discuss low prevalence, high morbidity diagnoses. Drs. Gressick and Meigh review treatment for myxedema coma. MIS-C vs. Kawasaki with Dr. Krack.
Vent Management on the Run...
This is a great paper recently presented at the Critical Care Transport Medicine Scientific Forum. It covers a subject area I have always been interested in. Over time, our understanding of critical care has evolved to show the importance of a low tidal volume strategy for ventilating patients, particularly those with lung injury/ARDS. However, even patients with normal lungs are potentially harmed by high tidal volume strategies.