Critical Care Scenarios

A brief overview and call to arms around the key concepts of ICU liberation.

We chat with Scott Weingart of Emcrit about the use of crash VA ECMO for the cardiac arrest patient. Check out the REANIMATE course here! Listen to the ED ECMO podcast on ECPR here Find us on Patreon here! Buy your merch here! Takeaway lessons

Understanding the causes of doubled vent breaths, including premature/short cycling and reverse triggering, plus a basic approach to managing them.

Bryan and Brandon share their favorite podcasts, blogs, social media, and other online channels for medical education. Podcasts Blogs/websites Twitter accounts So, with Twitter, we could post all day and still leave a bunch of people out. Here are a few…the best way to find good Twitter followers is to start with these and see … Continue reading "Lightning rounds #27: Our favorite FOAM"

Reflections on the definition of a central line, whether it’s arbitrary, and the clinical implications of making the distinction.

We look at stress (Takotsubo) cardiomyopathy in the setting of critical illness, with Dr. Vincent Sorrell. Dr. Sorrell is a cardiologist at the University of Kentucky, where he helped develop the Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Program, and is current Acting Chief of both the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and the Gill Heart and Vascular Institute. Find … Continue reading "Episode 59: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy with Vincent Sorrell"

When scooching a patient in the bed can make a difference.

What does bacteremia mean to you? A brief overview of how this affects the picture of an infected patient.

We look at evaluating the patient with encephalopathy and unexplained anion gap, including the workup and treatment of toxic alcohol poisoning, with guest Dr. Jerry Snow (@ToxicSnowEM), medical toxicologist and director of the toxicology fellowship at Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix. Find us on Patreon here! Buy your merch here! Click here to claim … Continue reading "Episode 58: Toxic alcohols with Jerry Snow"

Some basic tactics for keeping attention in your live talks, presentations, and lectures. Find us on Patreon here! Buy your merch here!