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Original ARDSNet Mechanical Ventilation Protocol

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network (ARDSNet)

NIH NHLBI ARDS Clinical Network 

#Management #CriticalCare
Distress Syndrome ... ARDSNet) NIH NHLBI ARDS ... Clinical Network ... #Management # ... Ventilation #Protocol #ARDS
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – ARDS: Clinical Cheat Sheet

An acute diffuse, inflammatory lung injury, leading to
Acute Respiratory ... – ARDS: Clinical ... sepsis-associated ARDS ... days after dx of ARDS ... #ARDS #Summary
Pharmacologic Management of ARDS

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) - Berlin Definition
Mechanical Ventilation - Minimizing "Baro trauma"
Fluid
of ARDS Acute ... Respiratory Distress ... Syndrome (ARDS) ... in ARDS - Liberal ... Corticosteroids in ARDS
Berlin Criteria for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) 
- Respiratory symptoms must have begun within one
Distress Syndrome ... (ARDS) - Respiratory ... week of a known clinical ... severity of the ARDS ... >= 5cm H2O #ARDS
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: steroids to treat infectious diseases
 - Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
Adjuvant therapies in critical ... mechanical ventilation, ARDS ... acute respiratory ... distress syndrome ... #Pharmacology #Management
(S)CMV - Synchronized Controlled Mechanical Ventilation Summary
Most Similar to "AC/VC"
Basic Set Parameters:
  1) Rate
Best for: - ARDS ... patients with respiratory ... patients with respiratory ... #Ventilation #management ... #pulmonary
Leptospirosis
Pathogen: Leptospira (interrogans, kirschneri, noguchii)
Risk Factors:
 • Occupational exposure - Farmers, ranchers, trappers, veterinarians
 • Recreational
failure • Severe pulmonary ... disease ARDS Diagnosis ... Epidemiologic exposure + clinical ... agglutination - test ... diagnosis #treatment #management
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
Guillain-Barre Clinical ... Can begin in arms ... patients) • Respiratory ... Absent Reflexes: Arms ... #diagnosis #management
Myasthenia Gravis Overview

Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disorder of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction.  Ab to
Clinical Picture ... proximal weakness, arms ... Bedside: ice pack test ... /Edrophonium test ... Gravis #diagnosis #management
In ARDS, we know that the lungs are so diffusely injured that the remaining total area
In ARDS, we know ... realize that in ARDS ... Consider a patient in ARDS ... #ards #foamed # ... #clinical