Reading Time: < 1 minute A cheat sheet that you can refer to when you get into a situation where you need to intubate a pregnant patient in respiratory distress.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Like a lot of concepts in critical care, waveform capnography can tell you quite a bit about a patient.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes While APRV sounds great in theory, it does come with its limitations that should be considered prior to initiating it on any patient.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes In patients with risk factors for post extubation stridor, and in these instances only, a cuff leak test can be used to predict the risk of post-extubation stridor in patients.
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Reading Time: 6 minutes SBT is usually conducted in one of two ways — minimal ventilator support (pressure support ventilation) and T-piece trial. This article will discuss these two different modalities and the data supporting each.
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Reading Time: 6 minutes While intubating a patient can be nerve wracking, extubating a patient can feel the same.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes A review of the latest evidence regarding hyperoxia!
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Understanding the differences in peak and plateau airway pressures is essential for diagnosing changes in the patient/ventilator system.