More than 600,000 patients in North America sustain sudden cardiac arrest each year. When return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) is achieved, there are a number of critical interventions to consider in order to provide the patient with the best chance of being discharged with meaningful neurologic survival. In this podcast, we discuss an excellent recent review article on the management of patients with ROSC following cardiac arrest.
Approximately 3 million critically ill patients are intubated and initiated on mechanical ventilation each year in the United States. A critical component of mechanical...
Critically ill patients receiving mechanical ventilation require analgesia and sedation. At present, propofol remains the most widely used sedative for intubated/ventilated patients. Recent trials...
Several recent articles have challenged the long-held belief that we should treat fever in patients with sepsis? In this episode we review these recent...