Anyone who thinks their “right” to walk in public without a mask is more important than a “few” people losing their lives to #COVID, has never stood by a dying patient’s bedside while holding an iPad so their family can say goodbye.
I promise, it will haunt you.
#COVID19
The crashing patient on the ventilator is scary and every second counts. You need a stepwise algorithm to stabilize this patient that works fast. This is important if you are a nurse, respiratory therapist, NP, PA, or doctor.
#FOAmed
Don’t like wasting time looking for veins in a code. Don’ place central lines during codes.
The IO is the fastest way to vascular access. Technically a central line & any medication can go through including blood.
Are you using the IO for your critically-ill patients?
#FOAMED
Today's #Top10Tuesday are some best practices that I've observed for the critically-ill COVID patients. These are all the results of participating and listening to webinars with some of the brightest and cutting edge experts out there
What are your thoughts about these?
#FOAMed
No disrespect to any of my physician colleagues, but can we temporarily rename today to “National Healthcare Worker’s Day”. Everyone in healthcare could use a great big “thank you” right now.
(…Doctors, we’ll celebrate our own thing in 2021…I’ll even buy the cake)
What’s the fastest central access? Nope, it’s not a central line.
IOs are awesome & underutilized in healthcare. You can push anything through them. It’s my go to access in a code.
How many are using them? Are using the tibia or the humerus?
#Tips4NewDocs#Tipsfornewdocs
Do you know the difference between peak & plateau pressures?
Peak pressure represent all the forces during inspiration & is a measure of stiffness (chest wall, ungs,etc) & resistance of flow (ET tube,bronchi,etc).You need to perform an inspiratory hold for the plateau pressure
Trying some new content today, this is a new series called “Top 10 Tuesday”. Each week I’ll cover a new topic
For the first Top 10 Tuesday let’s talk about Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
Please let me know in the comments whether or not you like this content format.
Stop ordering so many ABGs (in non-mechanically ventilated patients)
This is a #TipsForNewDocs but others might want to listen
I realize this is controversial so let it rip in the comments.Interested to hear yr thoughts
#FOAmcc#FOAmed#CriticalCare#emergencymedicine#icu
