Patients with COVID-19 can require supplemental oxygen for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. While international guidelines recommend a target SpO2 between 90-96%, a safe oxygenation strategy has not been identified. In this podcast, we discuss the recently published HOT-COVID Trial, which compared a lower oxygenation strategy with a higher oxygenation strategy in adult ICU patients with COVID-19.
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...
In this podcast we complete our discussion of articles from the 2017 emergency medicine and critical care literature that have potential practice changing implications. ...
Approximately 350,000 adults in the US experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Despite numerous potential improvements in treatments, survival from OHCA remains essentially unchanged...