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Weaning from the Ventilator - Algorithm
Setting up for extubation success
 • Decrease demand — correct metabolic
consider draining pleural ... effusions • Improve ... are happy lungs ... Algorithm #Extubation #CriticalCare ... #Management
Management of patients with known or suspected malignant pleural effusion (MPE) - An Official ATS/STS/STR Clinical
Management of patients ... effusion (MPE) ... goals of assessing lung ... there are any signs ... #Effusions #MPE
Constrictive Pericarditis on Echocardiogram
A 55-year-old female marathon runner presents to clinic w/ 6-months of worsening breathlessness
Pericarditis on Echocardiogram ... ASA, Kussmaul's sign ... edema, and clear lungs ... circumferential pericardial effusion ... #a4c #pocus #clinical
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
Diagnosis and Management ... absence of intrinsic lung ... Arterial blood gas (ABC ... on radioactive lung ... #treatment #hepatology
Heart failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)
Clinical Presentation
1. Typical symptoms: dyspnea, orthopnea paroxysmal noctumal dyspnea, fatigue,
: weight gain, lung ... HFrEF may lack lung ... edema, bilateral pleural ... effusions). 1/5 ... heartfailure #diagnosis #management
Portopulmonary Hypertension
Presence of pulmonary arterial hypertension in a patient with portal hypertension
No other obvious causes (chronic
causes (chronic lung ... Transthoracic echocardiogram ... m/s • Other signs ... Hypertension #diagnosis #management ... #hepatology
Management of patients with known or suspected malignant pleural effusion (MPE) - An Official ATS/STS/STR Clinical
Management of patients ... effusion (MPE) ... goals of assessing lung ... there are any signs ... #Algorithm #Effusion
Fluid Responsiveness and Fluid Tolerance Testing - OnePager Summary
Fluid resuscitation can be beneficial when required or
of CO2 to the lungs ... precede other signs ... response to the rapid infusion ... testing #diagnosis #criticalcare ... comparison #challenges #management