The heat and humidity have returned to the Northern Hemisphere! Numerous deaths have already been reported due to the extreme heat. In this episode we cover the critical interventions you need to know and do to improve the outcomes of patients suffering from heatstroke.
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Emergency physicians intubate critically ill patients daily. Unfortunately, up to 17% of ED intubations can be complicated by peri-intubation hypoxemia, hypotension, and cardiac arrest....
Though low-tidal volume ventilation has been shown to decreased mortality in patients with ARDS, the use of these settings in mechanically ventilated ED patients...
Current guidelines for post-cardiac arrest management recommend TTM (32C to 36C) for all patients with coma after resuscitation from cardiac arrest. The benefit of...