An intensivist on a learning frenzy. Caring for the critically ill using evidence-based medicine.
There are numerous methodologies that we can utilize to determine fluid responsiveness in our critically ill patients in the emergency department or in the intensive care unit. In this post, I will be taking a deep dive into pulse pressure variation, PPV as the shorthand. For details about the other methods for determining fluid responsiveness, …
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I have covered many things on this page, including resuscitation and fluid responsiveness. Fluid responsiveness is a patient being given a certain amount of fluid, or a passive leg raise to assess how that will increase the cardiac output/index or stroke volume. This post will discuss stroke volume variation (SVV) and how it predicts fluid …