REBEL EM

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

PMID: 38215002 Clinical Question: In critically ill adults in the ICU is noninvasive blood pressure (NIBP) monitoring similar (≤10% difference) to invasive arterial blood pressure (IABP) monitoring? Paper: Haber, EN et al. Accuracy of Noninvasive Blood Pressure Monitoring in Critically Ill Adults. J Intensive Care Med 2024. to 2.47; p – 0.04

ICU

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 19, 2025

Continued discussion with the ICU as well as with CV surgery. This has been similar in the MICU as well. On arrival to the ICU, was noted to be in atrial fibrillation but with controlled ventricular response, and lower heart rate than one would expect with this degree of hemodynamic instability as well as pressor requirements.

MICU

REBEL EM

AUGUST 29, 2022

Duration of mechanical ventilation, ICU, and percentage of vasopressor use were not significantly different. In contrast, patients in the ketamine arm had higher rates of MICU admissions. Day 28 survival rates for both ketamine and etomidate were not significantly different. The significance of 7-day survival is unclear.

MICU

Core EM

JANUARY 16, 2025

It is true, someone finally did an RTC on ICU level patients and found that first pass success IS better with VL than DL (Prekker 2023), but the fact remains that sometimes VL fails. 3) All India Difficult Airway Algorithm for ICU patients Figure 64 (from Myatra 2016) Indian guidelines- similar to British in defaulting to cricoid pressure.

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