VOX Index: Predicting HFNC Failure (One-Minute Journal Club)

On June 8, 2022June 8, 2022 By eddyjoemdIn NIV: HFNC & BiPAP

This is a one-minute journal club.This is not medical advice. Read the full free article for yourself (link below).Hat tip to the authors.Link in my stories for the next 24 hours.How do you predict whether a patient on high-flow will need to be intubated?Eyeballing your patient is not quite good enough.The ROX index is a …

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ROX Index: Predicting Who Is or Isn’t Going to Fly on HFNC

On October 28, 2020June 9, 2022 By eddyjoemdIn NIV: HFNC & BiPAP

We have all had this patient. Someone who is in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, let's just call it pneumonia of some sort or ARDS, and the regular nasal cannula or a venti-mask can't cut it. They're not at the severity where you can eyeball the patient and just know that they need to be intubated. …

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VOX Index: Predicting HFNC Failure (One-Minute Journal Club)

ROX Index: Predicting Who Is or Isn’t Going to Fly on HFNC