ResusX is a 3-day resuscitation experience in Philly (w/ a virtual option). Starts 9/18/24
There are also 4 pre-conference workshops to choose from
Come to the main conference, or just the workshops, or come for it all!
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.
Do you intubate patients? How do you predict and prevent post-Intubation hypotension?
Post-intubation hypotension occurs in 25% and cardiac arrest in 3%… so we need to be able to identify which patients are at risk and prepare for it.
#CritBits
Vent management is important during this
#COVID
era, as the ED and inpatient floors are being filled with ventilated patients.
Knowing the peak and plateau pressure can help troubleshoot the vent when it is alarming. Check out these sheets as a primer to troubleshoot
#FOAMed
How do you evaluate the patient with undifferentiated shock? Are you using ultrasound? If so, what’s your protocol? Please share this with someone who uses ultrasound to assess their hypotensive patients
There has never been a better time to post this brilliant tweet by
@meganranney
.
We are now (and will be for the foreseeable future) working long-hours and are at maximum capacity. Please remember to maintain your humanity and decency during these trying times.
#FOAMed
Introducing a BRAND NEW weekly series called
#WhatsTheDX
. I did a version of this a few years ago, but I’m completely updating the format to make it more interactive, much more educational, & hopefully a little more fun.
Please reply with your answers...answer tomorrow
#FOAMed
Patients w/ life-threatening asthma are challenging. Every second counts and many things must be done quickly & early. Remember:
Summary:
1. Don’t intubate
2. Epinephrine IM, then IV
3. BPAP
4. If you intubate, avoid too fast of a rate
Watch the video:
Do you want to be a true resuscitation master? Then you have to know about the right ventricle!
The RV is often overlooked but is so vital for resuscitation. Watch this brand new
#CritBits
for more.
@msiuba
@iceman_ex
@ThinkingCC
@bmiesemer
This arrived today, thanks to
@airwaycam
Let me tell you it was put to work right out of the box. We used for one of the many awake prone patients on our service.
Thank you for what you do Rich, just one of the ways you have positively impacted my life and those of my patients
#IttyBittyCritBits
(a simple thought as you're walking in to your shift) NTG drip in severe decompensated heart failure. The recommended starting dose is 5mcg/min and titrate from there...but this is not enough (see post below). Inspired by a post started by
@EM_RESUS
Stop drowning patients with maintenance fluids
Fluid is a drug and we have to be careful how we give. Too much can cause organ edema and injury.
Watch the video and then tell me what are your thoughts on maintenance fluids.
#FOAmcc
#FOAmed
#Tipsfornewdocs
#Tips4NewDocs
#icu
How to approach the crashing patients on the vent. Part I
You need a quick and simple algorithm to troubleshoot when your vented patients crash
Do you use this mnemonic? Do you something else? Hit me up at the comments, I love to hear from you
#FOAmcc
#foamed
#resuscitation
Are you nervous when pregnant patients presents acutely ill? These patients are scary because you are caring for 2 patients. Also, pregnant patients undergo so physiologic changes during pregnancy & have little reserve when critical illness occurs. Remember mnemonic T.O.L.D.
An often forgotten fact is that vasopressors increase venous tone and hence moving some of the unstressed volume to stressed volume. I’m not saying that we don’t need any fluids, just that pressors aren’t so bad.
#Foamcc
#FOAmed
Don’t Let Mechanically Ventilated Patients Get SILI (Self-Induced-Lung-Injury). Yes, it's a thing & it might be leading to lung injury in the COVID patients
Is this the reason that pts are getting worse on the ventilator & transitioning from L to H type? Please comment below
Are you using Hi-flow for your COVID patients? Interested to hear your thoughts on how you are managing and if you are proning awake as well. Please let me know.
Here's a little summary of how hi-flow works.
#FOAMed
#CritBits
Episode 13: Ultrasound Hacks for Cardiac Arrest. Doing ultrasound is good but it distracts from other things; remember these 5 tips:
1. Turn machine on before rhythm check
2. Let the most experienced person scan
3. Countdown rhythm check
4. Use PSLX
5. Just take clips
CriticalCareNow is a
#FOAMed
resource from over 30 educators in Resuscitation. Daily content w/ specific themes that mixes audio, video, & images
More content coming, including a video-series called “the iV League”, launching tonight 5pmEST
Please enjoy
Remember…there’s more than just Vancomycin
Here’s a list of the commonly used antibiotics for MRSA. This is not complete but these are the most commonly used ones.
The bottom line is there’s more than one way to kill MRSA
#Sepsis
#CriticalCare
#EmergencyMedicine
#foamed
A broken heart on Valentine’s Day can lead to shock, it can actually can happen any day of the year.
This Valentine’s Day I threw together this quick sketch about the 4 classes of shock. It’s not a fancy valentines gift, but I made it just for you.
Happy Valentine’s Day
#CritBits
Episode 6: End-Tidal CO2 Intro to the waveform (plus some outtakes). Please submit your
#CritBitThis
for your chance for a FREE
#ResusX
t-shirt
V/Q mismatch explained in under 6 minutes? It’s true...watch this episode of
#CritBits
Don’t forget to like and subscribe if you enjoyed it.
#FOAMED
#Foamcc
Not types of shock are obvious when you first evaluate patients. But you have to figure it out fast…because mortality increases by the second.
.
Ultrasound is a the perfect way to rapidly and non-invasively evaluate the patient in shock.
#foamed
#IttyBittyCritBit
Someone asked me on plane home to describe
#SMACC19
.Well, that’s difficult to do if you’ve never been,but upon reflection it’s a conference that celebrates medicine, humanism, education, failure, innovation & community. Thanks for 6 amazing years.Looking forward to next journey.
How do you treat auto peep?
I’m re-launching CritBits soon, but before I do a few throwbacks to a video series I used to do
In this series, I break down pathophysiology to the most basic form to help better teach concepts.
Do you use ultrasound for central lines? Are you utilizing all the benefits of ultrasound once you find the vein?
Please leave your comments below and subscribe to the channel so you never miss a video from us! Thanks for watching
#
#Foamed
#CritTips
#CritBits
is back, did you miss us?
Shock’s not a disease, it’s a physiologic state w/ 4 types
Hypovolemic
Obstructive
Cardiogenic
Distributive
We’ll cover each of these in detail in subsequent episodes
Like & subscribe if you enjoy
#FOAmed
#Foamcc
#CritBits
Episode 21: Ultrasound for Undifferentiated Shock
Assess Tank,Pump,Pipes using any one of many u/s protocols. My go to is HIMAP by
@emcrit
&
@bretpnelson
(w/ some modifications)
H-HEART
I-Intravascular Assessment
M-Morrison's (FAST)
A-Aorta
P-Pulmonary
#FOAMed
#FOAMcc
I miss lecturing…so let’s do one live. I’ll be live streaming “Respiratory Failure Made Simple” on 5/22 at 5PM EST. 25 minutes followed by Q&A
Light refreshments will be served
Who is coming? I need a headcount to order sandwiches ;)
Any educators here using TikTok? I know this sounds crazy, but it’s an under utilized
#meded
platform
I’m not talking about doctors & nurses being silly on TikTok, I’m talking about legit education
I’ve been posting for a few days (as
@criticalcarenow
) see video here
Thoughts?
#CritBits
Episode 10: End-Tidal for cardiac output including assessing a fluid bolus. Did you know a 5% increase in end-tidal w/ a passive leg raise suggests fluid responsiveness?
Do you know the Winter‘s formula? Do you know how to apply it in your patients?
The Winter‘s formula is a great tool to help with the assessment of metabolic acidosis. Watch this
#CritBits
requested by counting backwards from zero.
#FOAMcc
#FOAMed
Respiratory failure is a common presentation. Here’s an easy strategy to approach it.
Here is the rule of 2’s, a very simple approach to the patient with respiratory failure. We’ll deep dive this a little more in upcoming
#CritBits
The Crashing Ventilated Part II: D.O.T.T.S.
We spoke about DOPES to help diagnose the problem, today we’re talking about DOTTS to help you fix the problem.I created DOTTS a few years ago and it’s really help me when poop is hitting the fan.
What do you think?
#foamed
#foamcc
Are you ready to play
#WhatsTheDx
?
Last week we had a ton of people play, so I’m doing another giveaway this week to my Twitter friends.
61M post-CVA admitted and receives ECHO for workup. Clip shown.
#WhatsTheDx
and what cardiac view is this. You need both answers to win!
Tachypnea leads to less time for expiration & more breath stacking. Have you ever tried ketamine in the life-threatened asthmatic?
What medications do you use in the severe asthmatic? Do you use ketamine? What doses? Please share your experiences below
Yesterday I live streamed “Mechanical Ventilation Made Easy”
I talked about a simple approach to understanding vents and discussed the modes that you probably work with on a daily basis.
Like and subscribe to the channel if you enjoyed it.
We’re turning back to waveform capnography. Here are a few examples for you to work through. Watch video before looking at pic!
Do you have some awesome capnography waveforms? Send them to me; if I feature them, I’ll mail you a FREE gift!
Did you know that you can use ultrasound to access the subclavian vein for a central line.We’re talking about that on this
#CritTips
Are you doing subclavian vein cannulations?What do you think?
Please like and subscribe to the channel!
#FOAMed
#FOAMcc
Why does prone ventilation work in ARDS? This
#CritBits
explains it all…
…the V/Q matching, the improved hemodynamics, the PROSEVA trial….a lot of stuff in one tiny
#CritBit
Please like and subscribe for more videos
#FOAMed
#FOAMcc
How do you fix the broken right ventricle? It's basically fixing the plumbing?
Plumbing?! Watch this brand new
#CritBits
and find out more about this
Like the video and subscribe to the channel if you enjoyed it
#FOAMed
#FOAMcc
Got Refractory Hypoxemia? Zentensivist
@msiuba
& I spoke about a practical approach in ARDS patients and also spoke about COVID lung and management.
This dude is super smart.
#FOAMed
Patients w/life-threatening asthma will die if you’re not aggressive during resuscitation
A HUGE struggle is to minimize hemodynamic instability from breath stacking & auto-PEEP. Watch this video to understand breath stacking,just don’t pass out in the process
#FOAMed
#FOAMcc
The crashing patient on the ventilator is scary and every second counts. You need a stepwise algorithm to stabilize this patient that works fast.
#FOAMed
Part II of respiratory failure made simple. Type I respiratory failure is a failure to oxygenate. There’s two things to do.
Watch this
#CritBits
to learn more
Don’t forget to like and subscribe if you enjoyed the video!
#FOAMed
#FOAMcc
#criticalcare
This
#TopTenTuesday
focuses on identifying, preparing, & acting on Critically ill patients that you are intubating.
Do you have tip for intubating the critically ill patient? Please leave them in the comments below
#Foamcc
#FOAmed
Cards 1-4
What’s a
#zentensivist
? It’s as simple as just watching, waiting, and avoiding the temptation to do something just for the sake of doing it.
Ht to
@msiuba
@PulmCrit
A great podcast w/
@gattinon
and
@sergio_zanotti
regarding
#COVID
, the lungs and mechanical ventilation. Hear about the L and H type directly from the man who coined the terms.
ICYMI CritBits Ep1: auto-PEEP
A MUST know if you manage ventilated pts.
Normally ventilated patient ➡️ expiratory waveform returns to baseline.
With asthma / COPD, waveform doesn’t come back to baseline, discussed in the next
#CritBits
Watch ➡️