Critical Care Scenarios

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!

We discuss our approach to keeping up with research, learn about new studies, interpret them, and some general thoughts on how to apply new literature to our practice. Find us on Patreon here! Buy your merch here!

When the lessons of memory, clinical experience, and time may be more deceptive than instructive. Find us on Patreon here! Buy your merch here!

We tackle the knotty dilemma of diagnosing and treating hyponatremia, with Dr. Paul Adams, a dual-trained nephrologist and intensivist at the University of Kentucky. Find us on Patreon here! Buy your merch here! Takeaway lessons Resources

A review of the basics of blood donation, storage, typing, screening, matching, and transfusion. Transfusion medicine series at Critical Concepts Find us on Patreon here! Buy your merch here!

A candid discussion of our flaws, mistakes, weaknesses, and errors, and a look at why it’s important to reflect on these things in medicine, acknowledge them, and try to improve. Find us on Patreon here! Buy your merch here!

A review of the methods of PEEP setting, including stress index, PV loops, esophageal manometry, and PEEP tables, and finally my preferred method of driving pressure trials. Find us on Patreon here! Buy your merch here!