An intensivist on a learning frenzy. Caring for the critically ill using evidence-based medicine.
Welcome to the blog post version of the Saving Lives Podcast. In this post, I'm going to be discussing the aortic pulsatility index. Chances are you've never heard of this before. The reality is that I honestly had never heard of this before either. I ran into it been going down my rabbit hole of …
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Is your institution a milrinone shop or a dobutamine shop? Or do you have a mixed shop?It seems that most institutions are accustomed to use mostly one or the other in cardiogenic shock.Some argue that milrinone is better.Some argue that dobutamine is better.But do we know the answer?This was answered late in 2021 in the …
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You've heard all these fancy terms, mixed venous blood gas, ScvO2, SvO2, thrown around the ICU all the time. Here, I explain what they are. Regardless of whether you're a nurse, respiratory therapist, medical student, resident, or even a fellow, these terms may sometimes be quite confusing as everyone talks about them like, "duh, you're …
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