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Airway Pressure Release Ventilation (APRV) - Early application of airway pressure release ventilation may reduce the
ventilation in acute ... patients with ARDS ... Intensive Care Med ... VisualAbstract #Pulmonary ... #EBM #CriticalCare
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – ARDS: Clinical Cheat Sheet

An acute diffuse, inflammatory lung injury, leading to
Acute Respiratory ... leading to increased pulmonary ... consistent with pulmonary ... pneumonia and are ... Diagnosis #Management #CriticalCare
Possible approach to empiric anticoagulation in COVID-19

Is D-dimer above '"1,000-2,000 ng/ml?
Contraindication to anticoagulation?
Check fibrinogen level and/or
Hypo-coagulable pattern (rare ... Book of Critical Care ... COVID19 #management #schema ... #criticalcare # ... algorithm #SARSCOV2
Approach to Possible Hypertensive Emergency

criteria required to diagnose hypertensive emergency
(1) Severe hypertension
 - Usually a MAP
patients who have acute ... , such as: - Acute ... - Pulmonary edema ... Emergency #Diagnosis #Algorithm ... #CriticalCare #
Possible Approach to Immunosuppression in Severe COVID-19

The diagnosis and treatment of cytokine storm remains unknown and
Book of Critical Care ... iBookCC #empiric #anticoagulation ... COVID19 #management #schema ... #criticalcare # ... algorithm #SARSCOV2
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
the setting of acute ... cannot, coronary ischemia ... dilated vessels, or acutely ... clinica l#foamed #algorithm ... #criticalcare
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
the setting of acute ... cannot, coronary ischemia ... dilated vessels, or acutely ... #diagnosis #algorithm ... management #clinical #criticalcare
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
murmur 3/6) - Pulmonary ... event, follow ACC algorithm ... Anticoagulation ... ACEi/ARBs - Hold ... events or death (CARP
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
important to recognize Acute ... with presence of pulmonary ... Cardiac cath if acute ... #differential #algorithm ... heartfailure #chf #criticalcare
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
presents with acute ... to 12 weeks for acute ... , with ensuing ischemia ... Chronic, subacute to acute ... yeast • At risk: AIDS