
Episode 54: The critically ill patient with pulmonary hypertension, with Ray Foley
Critical Care Scenarios
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Is There an Advantage to Inhaled Nitric Oxide?
Many patients who are established will already have been followed by one of these centers, right? I mean, their complex history will be known somewhere. The big wrap against nitric oxide is that it's expensive. So a lot of shops would tend to shy away from nitric just because of the cost issue. But I like nitric. It's something that's easily applied to the ventilator circuit. We ramp it up. And then if eventually patients are getting better, switch them over to then an alternative. There's even IV sultenophil that we can use. That's so dentophils need, of course, but also can be used in the critical cure world
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