Textbook of Ventilation, Fluids, Electrolytes and Blood Gases

Textbook of Ventilation, Fluids, Electrolytes and Blood Gases

The Textbook of Ventilation, Fluids, Electrolytes and Blood Gases encompass essential topics for which thorough education and training is a must for any clinician who manages these patients. This book has four sections, each... read more

Mild Hypercapnia or Normocapnia after OHCA

Mild Hypercapnia or Normocapnia after OHCA

In patients with coma who were resuscitated after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), targeted mild hypercapnia did not lead to better neurologic outcomes at 6 months than targeted normocapnia. A total of 1,700 patients... read more

Hypothermia vs Normothermia for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Hypothermia vs Normothermia for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Hypothermia was first introduced in 2002 by two studies, Bernard et al and The Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest (HACA) trial. The latter, although a small trial, showed improved neurologic outcomes at six months when patients... read more

Increased Dead Space Ventilation and Refractory Hypercapnia in Patients with COVID-19

Increased Dead Space Ventilation and Refractory Hypercapnia in Patients with COVID-19

We speculate that thromboinflammation with pulmonary microvasculature occlusion leads to a sudden increase in dead space and shunt resulting in severe hypercapnia and hypoxemia in coronavirus disease 2019 patients. Early... read more

Reversing Neuromuscular Blockade

Reversing Neuromuscular Blockade

Neuromuscular blocking drugs have for years enabled anesthesiologists beneficially to relax skeletal muscles to improve anesthetic management, increase safety and quality of tracheal intubation, and to provide favorable intraoperative... read more

Looking for a Better Way to Treat Hypoxia in the Emergency Department? Reach for High-Flow Nasal Cannula

Looking for a Better Way to Treat Hypoxia in the Emergency Department? Reach for High-Flow Nasal Cannula

High-flow nasal cannula should be considered a first-line therapy in all patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure not from cardiogenic pulmonary edema and without concomitant hypercapnia. The high flow rate of HFNC offers... read more

Resuscitation of Pulmonary Hypertension and RV Failure

Resuscitation of Pulmonary Hypertension and RV Failure

A guide to the initial emergency department management of patients with pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular failure. It is very rare for my to write about pathophysiology, but understanding the pathophysiology of... read more