Dr. Knox, M.D., discusses the literature on TAPSE to diagnose pulmonary embolism. 

Dr. Jacob C. Martin, M.D. discusses two papers on pre-charging during cardiac arrest. 

A 76 year old male presents with confusion, cough, and fever. He remains hypoxic in the 80s on nasal canula. Your nurse suggests non-invasive positive pressure ventilation to improve oxygenation. How likely is this strategy to maintain acceptable oxygenation? What are the chance the patient will progress to the need for intubation? 

Dr. Sewatsky, M.D., discusses ETCO2 in the ED. 

We've covered four of the most prominent pressors over the last few weeks. In this final post about pressors, Dr. Di Taranti shares some pearls about peripheral administration of pressors.

A 48 year old male presents with complaints of blurry vision. His triage blood pressure catches your eye: 290/120. "Pretty high," you mutter to yourself "but am I supposed to treat it? If so, with what? How fast should that pressure come down?" Time for a crash review of hypertensive emergency....

Dr. Di Taranti is back again with another vasopressor bite - phenylephrine.

A 79 year old female is sent in by urgent care for a CT scan of the chest after a plain film demonstrates a sternal fracture after MVC. "No problem," you think as you order the CT and go about your shift. A few hours later, however, you hear the dreaded "I need a doctor in here!" from your patient's room....

We're in the middle of a run of posts on vasopressors by Dr. Di Taranti. The last two weeks, we covered norepinephine and epinephrine - up today: vasopressin. 

Our next post about pressors is about epinephrine. Refer to last weeks post to review norepinephrine! More to come in the following weeks, too!