This Lecture reviews the use of Vitamin C, hydrocortisone and Thiamine for the treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock … [Read more...]
Inspiratory IVC Collapse: some physiological considerations by Jon-Emile Kenny
So we've gone back and forth quite a bit on IVC ultrasound these past couple of days:iSepsis - Vena Caval Ultrasonography - Just Don't Do It! An Uproar about the IVC EM Nerd-The Case of the Tarnished Standard The IVC for Fluid Assessment RoundupSo it would probably be helpful to have some physiologic basis for all of this. Enter Jon-Emile S. Kenny MD, … [Read more...]
Podcast 203 – New Reversals for New Anticoagulants with Nadia Awad
This stuff is not sexy and frankly, it hurts my head. That is all the more reason to do a show on the new landscape of NOAC reversal. We must pursue rather than avoid the subjects we are weak on. But I needed someone far smarter than myself--I needed a EM PharmD. Nobody better to speak about this topic than Nadia Awad. Nadia is associate editor of the Emergency Medicine PharmD … [Read more...]
An Uproar about the IVC
So on the ISepsis section of the blog, Paul just posted on the uselessness of IVC ultrasound for fluid assessment. Now since I don't really believe in large volume repletion anymore, I don't really care about fluid responsiveness all that much either. But I never let a good opportunity for debate pass me by, so it was a delightful happenstance that one of the authors of a … [Read more...]
The Complexity of Simple – Bringing Order to Complex Systems by Chris Hicks
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak –Hans Hofmann We live in complex times. Resuscitation has gone endovascular, microvascular, mitochondrial. EPR, ED-ECMO, REBOA--it’s a fascinating time to be a Resuscitationist. But the more we advance the resuscitation agenda, the more we learn how complex critical illness … [Read more...]
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