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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.
Grand Rounds Recap 9.21.2016
This week we learned about all the hardware that can go into our patient's CNS and how it can go wrong. We also heard about complications of Varicella infection, set out to optimize visualization of a needle on US, learned to give better feedback to the difficult learner, heard about ED super-utilizers and strategized about ventilator management.
Grand Rounds Recap 2/3/16
This week we had our annual Critical Care Symposium where we invited our own critical care trained faculty and a special guest to have a day chock full of critical care goodness.
Refractory septic shock with Dr. David norton
Dr. David Norton, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of the UCMC Medical Intensive Care Unit
Definition of Refractory Shock:
No clear definition exists, but we are generally describing a state of decreased vascular responsiveness despite high vasopressor infusion.