Alternatives to Oxygenation, When to Take the Ventilator Out of the Equation
Welcome to the first posting of ECMOvember!! Our hope is that over the next several weeks we can take you through a journey to not only introduce the process of […]
Cardiogenic Shock, When the Pump Fails
Today we are fortunate to have Dr. Sammy Zakaria, Assistant Director of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and overall cardiac critical care guru. He will discuss his
Vent Problems – What’s the abnormality?
[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 60 year old female is just admitted to your ICU and is post-op from a C5 posterior cervical decompression & corpectomy
November is ECMOvember on MarylandCCProject.org
Get ready… November has been officially deemed as ECMOvember here on MarylandCCProject.org. Â Throughout the month we will be posting a number of educational lectures, posts, pearls, and pitfalls when managing
Ventilator Waveform Analysis
This is hopefully the first of many lectures we will be able to post from Dr. Nirav Shah – master of all things vent related. Â In this lecture Dr. Shah
You Put a Central Line into WHAT?!?!
[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”] You are awoken at 0300 by the ICU intern stating that the new admission is in room 11. En route she tells
Principles of Resuscitation
We were incredibly lucky to have the eminent Dr. Thomas Scalea –Â Francis X. Kelly Professor of Trauma Surgery & Physician-in-Chief at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center – come
HLH… the White Whale of Hematology!
Dr. Michael Scott is the second member of the University of Maryland Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine/Critical Care program to contribute to the website over the last 2 weeks. As acting chief resident,
CRASH-2: Prosecution’s Closing Statement
The comments regarding our recent post about the limitations of the CRASH-2 trial focus on definitions of trial design and purpose, the relative importance of those limitations in reducing the
