PEEP zero. Is this the answer?

MEDEST Permissive HypoVENTilation for haemorrhagic shock?? http://t.co/AGCnddQzSspic.twitter.com/txoAeZ0vUs— Karim Brohi (@karimbrohi) July 21, 2014 Inspiring discussion on Twitter (Minh Le Cong@rfdsdoc, Karim Brohi @karimbrohi and Peter Sherren@PBSherren) The topic: Your hypotensive blunt/penetrating trauma patient with associated severe TBI needs a vent. How do you set it and how you achive your physiological goals? Is it possibleContinue reading “PEEP zero. Is this the answer?”

The occasional intubator needs a plan. I got one! Do You?

MEDEST Following some discussion on who owns the airway (see the comments at the post Paralytic is the answer on EMPills Blog) Have to admit: I’m an occasional intubator. I manage something like 10 airways per month, all of them are “non conventional”, (no operating room, no chance to wake the patient, no chance toContinue reading “The occasional intubator needs a plan. I got one! Do You?”