The central-line kit has many components, many of which you may never have used. An oft forgotte part of the kit is a catheter-over-needle and this little device might make placing central-lines a whole lot easier.
Watch the video here.
Great teams review their performances. A recent publication from George Washington University used video of cardiac arrest resuscitations to generate educational interventions to minimize pulse checks during resuscitation.
As the number of COVID-19 cases rises drastically and the global pandemic continues to change life as we know it, we are all hoping for news of effective treatment. Approximately 15 percent of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 develop pneumonia requiring supplemental oxygen and an additional 5 percent progress to critical illness and acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. Although numerous drugs have been investigated, only dexamethasone has demonstrated improved survival in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in a randomized controlled trial design. We now have data from 3 randomized controlled trials to guide the use of remdesivir for severe COVID-19.
You ever wonder why we prone patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome? Watch this CritBits and find out.
Dr. Comber discusses DIC
A growing body of literature shows targeting capillary refill time is non-inferior to lactate clearance in sepsis resuscication.
You are working at a tertiary care center and a 55-year-old woman is transferred to you from an outside hospital for severe persistent thrombocytopenia of unknown origin. On arrival, she is mildly confused and tachycardic. The platelet count is 7K and the hemoglobin is 5.8. Peripheral blood smear demonstrates schistocytes consistent with microangiopathic hemolytic anemia. The diagnosis of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is suspected. TTP is a hematologic emergency: what are the next steps in management?
As the COVID epidemic continues with cases rising, managing patients with hypoxemia will continue to be challenging. This video with Dr. Matt Siuba and myself will discuss a few strategies to manage the patient with refractory hypoxemia.
The video is here
Dr. Sikina discusses an interesting foreign body case.
