Reading Time: 5 minutes It has been taught to nurses, probably since the dawn of time, to check gastric residuals every 4 hours as part of a standard of care. But why do we do this? And should we be checking them?
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Reading Time: 2 minutes End-tidal CO2 is a very useful tool when caring for cardiac arrest patients. Many clinicians use it to determine the prognosis of patients who are in PEA. But is one number enough? Does the change of end-tidal CO2 provide a more accurate assessment of the futility of the resuscitation efforts?
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Read this weekly review for some spaced repetition of the past week’s content.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes The Pre-brief Pulmonary artery catheters (PACs), also known as Swan-Ganz catheters, are intravascular catheters that are inserted through a central…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Read this weekly review for some spaced repetition of the past week’s content.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes The Pre-brief If you have ever been in the intensive care unit (ICU) or operating room (OR), you know that…
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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: 2 minutes Read this weekly review for some spaced repetition of the past week’s content.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Read this weekly review for some spaced repetition of the past week’s content.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Read this weekly review for some spaced repetition of the past week’s content.