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Reading Time: 3 minutes With the spike in cases of e-cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury (EVALI) during 2019, much still remains to be seen in long-term studies. One of the results of EVALI studies that seems to remain unknown is if improvement in diffusion capacity (DLCO) will occur.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Portal vein pulsatility index may be a good marker to distinguish hypervolemic and hypovolemic hyponatremia when the physical examination is inconclusive.

Reading Time: 5 minutes It is inherently true that extremely high pressures delivered by the ventilator may lead to lung injury. It is natural to have some inherent dread about high Peak Inspiratory Pressure (PIP), but there is more to it than just PIP.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Every manager of the ventilator must understand waveforms. Pressure, Flow, Volume, and time can be plotted to give you a picture of what is happening in the lungs and the ventilator.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Negative Pressure Ventilation hit it’s peak with the Iron Lung. Could it make a resurgence?

Reading Time: 4 minutes COVID19 has brought about many new syndromes and unique presentations. Here’s one that has affected our pediatric patients.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Generalized Convulsive Status Epilepticus (GCSE) has a variety of causes that may be reversible; check out these important things to consider!

Reading Time: 4 minutes What do you do when your LVAD patient looses pulses?

Reading Time: 3 minutes What does a panting dog have to do with neonatal ventilation? Christina breaks down High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation.

Reading Time: 7 minutes Dr. Aman Thind breaks down the components and practical implications of dead space ventilation.