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Is COVID-19 ARDS?

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Is COVID-19 ARDS?

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a heterogeneous disease. It presents with a wide range of severity, varying degrees of hypoxemia and varying degrees of pulmonary mechanical impairment. Failure of hypoxemic vasoconstriction... read more

 
 
Ventilator Modes Made Easy: An Easy Reference for RRT’s, RN’s, and Medical Residents

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Ventilator Modes Made Easy: An Easy Reference for RRT’s, RN’s, and Medical Residents

Who says understanding ventilator modes has to be hard? This book gives you easy to understand information that every RRT, RN, or Resident always wishes they had. Each mode is described in simple language and answers the... read more

 
 
Prevention of Pathogen Transmission During Ultrasound Use in the ICU

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Prevention of Pathogen Transmission During Ultrasound Use in the ICU

The Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM) and the Australasian College for Infection Prevention Control (ACIPC) published guidelines on minimum standards for reprocessing/cleaning of ultrasound transducers... read more

 
 
COVID-19 Pneumonia: ARDS or Not?

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COVID-19 Pneumonia: ARDS or Not?

Even though it can meet the ARDS Berlin definition, the COVID-19 pneumonia is a specific disease with peculiar phenotypes. Its main characteristic is the dissociation between the severity of the hypoxemia and the maintenance... read more

 

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The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management

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The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management

The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management is the world’s most trusted reference on emergency airway management, and is the foundation text in the nationally recognized The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency and... read more

 
 
Understanding Happy Hypoxemia Physiology During COVID-19

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Understanding Happy Hypoxemia Physiology During COVID-19

Happy hypoxemia is severe hypoxemia (poorly responsive to supplemental oxygen) without dyspnea. This isn’t anything especially new – we have occasionally seen this since time immemorial. However, COVID is causing... read more

 
 
Comparison of Echocardiographic and Invasive Measures of Volaemia and Cardiac Performance in Critically Ill Patients

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Comparison of Echocardiographic and Invasive Measures of Volaemia and Cardiac Performance in Critically Ill Patients

Static echocardiographic variables did not reliably reflect the volume state as defined by estimates of mean systemic filling pressure. There was no statistical or clinically robust relationship between static echocardiographic... read more

 
 
Oxygen Escalation Therapy and Noninvasive Ventilation During COVID-19

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Oxygen Escalation Therapy and Noninvasive Ventilation During COVID-19

We are in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many parts of the world have been ravaged by this virus, but disease severity varies significantly. There are several types of patients with COVID-19: those who have mild disease... read more

 
 
Infectious Diseases A Clinical Short Course

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Infectious Diseases A Clinical Short Course

Infectious Diseases: A Clinical Short COURSE is a concise overview of this important field designed to help the busy physician, medical student, nurse practitioner, and physician assistant to understand, diagnose, and treat... read more

 
 
Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic

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Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to shortages of essential goods and services – from hand sanitizers to masks to beds to ventilators. Today, the healthcare system is facing the prospect of rationing medical goods and services.... read more

 
 
Optimizing Ventilator Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Optimizing Ventilator Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 outbreak is presenting unprecedented challenges to our health care system. According to our best projections, combined with information on the ground, the availability of precious medical resources will be limited... read more

 
 
Addressing Anxiety Among Health Care Professionals During COVID-19

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Addressing Anxiety Among Health Care Professionals During COVID-19

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has become one of the central health crises of a generation. The pandemic has affected people of all nations, continents, races, and socioeconomic groups. The responses required,... read more

 
 
Pharmacokinetics and Sedative Effects of Intranasal Dexmedetomidine in Ambulatory Pediatric Patients

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Pharmacokinetics and Sedative Effects of Intranasal Dexmedetomidine in Ambulatory Pediatric Patients

These results demonstrate that intranasally (IN) dexmedetomidine is relatively rapidly absorbed and causes significant sedation in pediatric patients. Pharmacokinetics of IN dexmedetomidine in pediatric patients show quite... read more

 
 
Small Compact Resuscitation Device Safely Used on Patient with COVID-19

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Small Compact Resuscitation Device Safely Used on Patient with COVID-19

A small compact and portable resuscitation ventilation device built by PRIMEDIC OXYLATOR, was safely used to treat a patient with COVID-19 pneumonia in the intensive care unit (ICU). The Oxylator from Primedic is a combination... read more

 
 
A Novel ECG-biomarker for Cardiac Arrest During Hypothermia

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A Novel ECG-biomarker for Cardiac Arrest During Hypothermia

Treatment of arrhythmias evoked by accidental or therapeutic hypothermia and rewarming remains challenging. We aim to find an ECG-biomarker that can predict ventricular arrhythmias at temperatures occurring in therapeutic... read more

 
 
The Misunderstood Coagulopathy of Liver Disease

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The Misunderstood Coagulopathy of Liver Disease

In patients with abnormal coagulation testing results in the setting of liver disease, INR and PT may be best used to provide the practitioner with information about the synthetic function of the liver but not to assess hemorrhagic... read more

 
 
COVID-19 Has Them Scared to Go Home

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COVID-19 Has Them Scared to Go Home

There are no statistics on how many health care workers and first responders have passed the virus to their children, spouses, or parents. But, thousands of American health care professionals have fallen ill so far – over... read more

 
 
Characteristics of Health Care Personnel with COVID-19 in United States

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Characteristics of Health Care Personnel with COVID-19 in United States

As of April 9, 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had resulted in 1,521,252 cases and 92,798 deaths worldwide, including 459,165 cases and 16,570 deaths in the United States. Health care personnel (HCP)... read more

 
 
Pediatric Airway Management in COVID-19 Patients

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Pediatric Airway Management in COVID-19 Patients

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (COVID-19) pandemic has challenged medical systems and clinicians globally to unforeseen levels. COVID-19’s rapid spread has forced clinicians to care for patients... read more

 
 
Critical Care / ICU, Fluids, Electrolytes and Nutrition

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Critical Care / ICU, Fluids, Electrolytes and Nutrition

Filled with detailed work-ups, treatments, pearls, illustrations, differential diagnosis and references. Everything you ever needed to know about critical care and nutrition issues in an easy to read and navigate format created... read more

 
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