It's that wonderful time of year when new residents are joining the ICU team!
Here are a few of my favorite @CritCareTime infographics to help you understand key concepts:
⚡️Undifferentiated shock
💉 Vasopressors
😮💨 The physiologically difficult airway &
🧪 Metabolic acidosis
A 50-year-old woman is brought into the emergency department unresponsive. History is otherwise limited. The following ECG is obtained with no prior ECGs available for comparison. https://t.co/XH2JGngwgE
Another incontrovertible fact. ‘The costs of investing in prevention and early response, to tackle the root causes of health crises, are minuscule compared to the costs of paying for the consequences of underinvestment.’
"Now my oxygen level is 50, and the guard at the Balrampur hospital is not letting me enter.”
Such a disturbing picture of COVID overwhelming Indian hospitals. This journalist, finding no help, live tweeted his declining oxygen levels until he died. https://t.co/qdV7qBY2Bc
For most of us, our mother is our first teacher. In my own case, it was my mother who first revealed to me the power of compassion. Since they are especially skilled in nurturing compassion and human values, we need women to take the lead in creating a more compassionate society.
7 Slide the probe 1-2 cm down the patient’s leg to find where the great saphenous vein branches off of the CFV. Apply compression.
👉🔗https://t.co/gmrBAIzsQh
#POCUS#MedEd Look for the Mickey Mouse! 🙂
+ Highly recommend going though this tweetorial by @Pocus101
Pertinent to #Nephrology (#dialysis /nephrotic syndrome patients with undifferentiated shortness of breath)
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Dying on #ECMO: why do pts on #ECLS die? how to care for the dying patient on mechanical support?
challenges does dying on ECMO
brain death on VA
how to withdraw #extracorporeal support
end-of-life care of patients on ECMO
@intensiveblog#FOAMcc#FOAMecmo https://t.co/laXsWb8iR1
Review of excited delirium literature cannot establish causation but suggests death more likely from physical restraint than underlying process. When you see restraints on an ED patient, ask, what do I need to do to get this patient out of restraints.
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