Ketamine & Catecholamine-dependent Heart Failure: Be Careful

The Ketamine kick continues! I am not going to pretend I knew everything about everything as I've created this page over the last several months. People who walk around saying things like they were born with that knowledge sometimes need to be checked. We all had that one eye-opening day where it was like, "(explicative) …

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Magnesium for Sedation in Mechanically Ventilated Patients?

This is cool, really cool. We need more data, but this is a great start. I would not call this the most robust study I have ever seen regarding the care of patients in the intensive care unit. I learned a lot of basic science from reading the introduction as well as discussion on this …

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