Extracorporeal Liver Support
A 17 yo woman is admitted to the ICU with fulminant liver failure due to Wilson’s disease; her course is complicated by encephalopathy, renal failure, and circulatory collapse despite maximal […]
Education
Educational posts, organized by topic
A Valvular Disaster…. An Exercise in Futility
[tab_nav type=”two-up”][tab_nav_item title=”Clinical Case” active=”true”][tab_nav_item title=”Answer” active=””][/tab_nav][tabs][tab active=”true”] A 32 yo F s/p a tricuspid valve replacement secondary to MSSA endocarditis 8 months earlier presents with a one month history
Choose Wisely… IVF Therapy & the Critically-Ill Patient
Dr. Michael Winters returns to discuss IV Fluid resuscitation in the critically ill patient. Should we abandon Normal Saline? What other options are available? What is a balanced fluid, and
Bad brain, good lungs… Right?
A 60 y/o male with a history of HTN, CAD, and polysubstance abuse presents to the ED with acute altered mental status followed by a generalized seizure. He is intubated
An Interesting Case of Tachypnea
[tab_nav type=”two-up”][tab_nav_item title=”The Case” active=”true”][tab_nav_item title=”Answer” active=””][/tab_nav][tabs][tab active=”true”] A 54 year-old male IV drug abuser was recently admitted to the CCU for new onset CHF. He is found to have
Ultrasound Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis in Haiti
A 41 year old Haitian man with no known past medical history presented to St. Luc Family Hospital (Tabarre, Port-au-Prince, Haiti) with 24 hours of RLQ abdominal pain, vomiting and
ICU Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism
Dr. Feras Khan is an emergency medicine trained intensivist who has recently joined the University of Maryland’s departments of both CCM and EM. This is a great lecture on the
Changing the Face of Massive Transfusion
We were lucky enough to have Dr. John Hess, one of the fathers of the massive transfusion protocol, come and speak at the University of Maryland’s Critical Care Core Content
Dysrhythmias in the ICU
This week’s core-content series lecture was given by Dr. Amal Mattu on ICU dysrhythmias. If you think that ACLS is all you need to know for the patient with a
