Everything ECMO
In specialist centres, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a now a mainstay of the management of cardio/respiratory failure refractory to other measures. However, much of the clinical information required to care for ECMO patients at the bedside remains inaccessible to learners. To address this, the creation of a free-to-access educational ECMO blog post is now ...
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 4, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Intensive Care Procedure Alfred ICU ECMO extracorporeal life support Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation Source Type: blogs
Mastering Intensive Care 033 with Wes Ely
Do you spend time finding out what the “why” is for your patient? Have you considered it’s not what is the matter with the patient but what matters to the patie… Read more → (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 28, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Andrew Davies Tags: Mastering Intensive Care Wes Ely Source Type: blogs
Mastering Intensive Care 033 with Wes Ely
Do you spend time finding out what the “why” is for your patient? Have you considered it’s not what is the matter with the patient but what matters to the patient? What the patient thinks their purpose is? Or at the very least, what they wish for during the next part of life, however short ...
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 28, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Andrew Davies Tags: Mastering Intensive Care Wes Ely Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 345
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Welcome to the 345th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chunk of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
From Australia’s SONO AUS 2018 conference back in February are half-hour presenta...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 27, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
Burnout in pediatric intensive care physicians
Burnout has been a descriptive term for years, but lately, psychologists and others have assigned it specific characteristics with a view toward being able actually to study and measure it. One common definition of burnout is a state of chronic stress that leads to physical and emotional exhaustion, cynicism, detachment, and feelings of ineffectiveness. The PICU environment is often one of high stress, so it’s a place where this can happen. We’ve known that informally for a long time. The best measure of this probably is that you don’t find many pediatric intensivists my age (66) who are still practicing; a large n...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 26, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/christopher-johnson" rel="tag" > Christopher Johnson, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Critical Care Practice Management Source Type: blogs
