Emergency medicine, critical care, and acute care providers evaluate, resuscitate, and manage patients with shock on a daily basis. Despite initial efforts, a select number of patients are refractory to fluid and vasopressor administration. In this podcast, we discuss a rationale approach to vasopressor administration, along with several rescue therapies for the patient with refractory vasodilatory shock.
You can get CME credit for this episode here!Click here for CME Account Creation Instructions!We know NIV works well for patients with acute COPD or acute CHF exacerbations. In this episode we discuss the evidence for NIV not...
Over 500,000 patients suffer sudden cardiac arrest each year in the United States. Though survival rates are improving, there remains significant variation in outcomes...
Given the increase in critically ill patients who present to the ED in need of resuscitation, along with the increase in those who board...