Online Medical Education on Emergency Department (ED) Critical Care, Trauma, and Resuscitation
Intubation is a sexy procedure, there is no doubt about it.
NIV does not have the glamour; it’s not nearly as cinematic. But for the patient, to spend 30 minutes on a NIV mask is preferable to a couple of days on the ventilator. In this episode, I discuss some of the basic ideas and methods of NIV.
Here it is, the 1st EMCrit podcast. It’s on the topic of Sympathetic Crashing Acute Pulmonary Edema (SCAPE). To boil it down to 10 seconds: Start patient on Non-invasive ventilation with a PEEP of 6-8; quickly titrate to a PEEP of 10-12. Start the patient on a nitroglycerin drip. Administer a loading dose of 4oo […]
