Dr. David Hager, MD, PHD, Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine presents on “Vitamin C in Sepsis: Rationale for the VICTAS Trial.”
Today we welcome Zachary Kon, M.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at NYU. In addition to acting as the Surgical Director of Pulmonary Hypertension/Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy Program, Dr. Kon also acts as the Surgical Director of the NYU Lung Transplantation Program. In addition to > 70 peer-reviewed publications, he has been invited all over the world as an expert speaker in the field pulmonary embolism therapy. We are fortunate to have him in-house to share his knowledge of what to do when the PE is starting to become overwhelming!
Today we welcome Josh D King, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine where he also serves as the associate program director for the nephrology fellowship program. Dr. King is a rare specimen, with board certifications in both Nephrology and Toxicology he focuses on critical care nephrology, acute treatment of drug overdoses, and addressing acute poisoning and envenomation. In addition to his clinical work, Dr King is a prolific academician, publishing numerous journal articles on the topic of acute care toxicology. Today he was kind enough to travel up Interstate 95 and donate an hour of his time to explain what we HAVE TO KNOW if we plan to work in the modern ICU!
A Right Thing Measured Poorly: An Epidemiologist’s View of Patient-Family Engagement in the ICU Alison E. Turnbull, DVM, MPH, PhD *Summary written by Avnee Kumar, MD Clinical Pearls Patient and
“A Tale of Two Studies: Flow-Induced Dilation and Vasoplegia in the Human Microcirculation” Julie K. Freed, MD, PhD **summary by Avnee Kumar, MD *Video does not start till 04:30 Clinical
Summary written by Avnee Kumar, MD Lecture starts at 57:20 Clinical Pearls What is the Rapid Response System? Organized process for identifying critical and dangerous events by clinical observations, triggering
Summary by Erik Manninen, MD Breathing is exercise: *Spontaneous breathing can have such high metabolic demand that gut ischemia can even be precipitated. Weaning from mechanical ventilation is a cardiac
Summary by Erik Manninen, MD *Pulmonary hypertension is found in the majority of patients with ARDS or COPD *pulmonary edema, ARDS, hypoxemia, and acidemia can worsen pulmonary HTN *intubation and
Dr. Sanjeev Shah, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania presents present the weekly multi-departmental critical care fellows’ lecture on “Lactate in the ICU – more th
