Reading Time: 7 minutes There are various reasons why we sedate our patients in the ICU, especially those who are mechanically ventilated. But here’s why we wake them up every day.
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Being a great assistant is a valuable skill. Learning to troubleshoot a situation from other perspectives will make you a much better resuscitationist.
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Decision-making in medicine can be extremely complex; we all rely on a number of heuristics to make the thousands of decisions a shift for our patients.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes We all know that sleep is extremely valuable, but what exactly is sleep and why do we need It?
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Reading Time: 8 minutes In the entire continuum of acute critical illness, health disparities have been observed from individual susceptibility to clinical presentation to medical treatment to final outcomes. The first step to change is awareness.
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Antifragility leads to strength when one is able to properly recover after a stress. In order to be antifragile resuscitationists, we must choose this path.