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ABG Jujitsu
ABG Jujitsu

In this episode, we break down interpreting ABGs into five easy steps to help take your acid-base game to the next level.

The Epidemic Of Good Enough
The Epidemic Of Good Enough

Is competence your target? Or are you shooting for expertise?

Oh, stress
Oh, stress

Oh stress - we meet again. Four strategies to beat the stress of a complex clinical scenario, and just in time.

[PCL] Hyperkalemia
[PCL] Hyperkalemia

In this weeks pulmcast little, we go over a little problem with lots of consequences: hyperkalemia.

As Good as GOLD with Dr. Antonio Anzueto
As Good as GOLD with Dr. Antonio Anzueto

In this episode, we had the honor of interviewing Dr. Antonio Anzueto who helped develop the new 2017 GOLD Guidelines. 

Core Content: COPD
Core Content: COPD

We’re back with more core content: you gotta know it. COPD may seem deceivingly simple at first, but the devil is in the details.
Learning How to Fetch

The way we do learning in medicine is all wrong. It turns out our puppy over here has a thing or two to teach us about learning - by playing fetch.
Cerebral Edema in ALF

No frills, no fluff - let’s dive right in to the good stuff.

Help! I Need Somebody
Help! I Need Somebody

Although it may seem easy, it's not REALLY that easy - things can get a little more... hairy.

Severe CAP: The 'Roid Debate Rages On
Severe CAP: The 'Roid Debate Rages On

What side are you on?

The Curious Case of the Acidemic Asthmatic
The Curious Case of the Acidemic Asthmatic

A 34-year-old female with a history of moderate persistent asthma presents to the ED with shortness of breath. Albuterol nebs are no longer helping, and her lactic is rising. What do you do?

Hired Off Of Rotations
Hired Off Of Rotations

So you wanna get hired off rotations?

Always give 100% (except when it comes to oxygen)
Always give 100% (except when it comes to oxygen)

A profoundly lethal gas that can tear apart your cells piece by piece, leading to tissue damage and organ failure. A gas you're breathing in - right NOW.

To ARDSnet and Beyond Part II
To ARDSnet and Beyond Part II

Part II of our essential-to-know ARDS series. What do you do after you have placed the patient on ARDSnet, but they remain hypoxemic?

And most importantly - What happened to Phil?!

To ARDSNet and Beyond Part I
To ARDSNet and Beyond Part I

For Part I of to ARDSnet and Beyond, we delve into the basics of the deadly disease we call ARDS and being talking about how we manage it.

[PCL] Owning the Airway (when you don't own the airway)
[PCL] Owning the Airway (when you don't own the airway)

For our first pulmcast little we review how to prepare and manage the room for intubation prior to an credentialed airway manager arriving.
ICU Liberation: Alphabet Soup from A to F
Core Content: Shock
Core Content: Shock

This is core content - you GOTTA know it: SHOCK

To Intubate or Not to Intubate (During In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest), that Is the Question
To Intubate or Not to Intubate (During In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest), that Is the Question

Today we discuss a paper from Lars Anderson: Association Between Tracheal Intubation During Adult In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Survival.

Big Data & Analytics Don't Save People (Humans Do!), But They Sure Do Help - with Dr. Dana Edelson
Big Data & Analytics Don't Save People (Humans Do!), But They Sure Do Help - with Dr. Dana Edelson

No algorithm will ever save a human being, but what it will do if it is a good one is tell the humans who to focus their efforts on. 

[JC SERIES] Episode 4: Oslerphiles Rejoice: We're Gonna Talk DIAGNOSIS
[JC SERIES] Episode 4: Oslerphiles Rejoice: We're Gonna Talk DIAGNOSIS

This episode is all about DIAGNOSIS.

Does a piece of subjective or objective data have value ruling IN or ruling OUT a condition? How valuable is it? What tools can we use to determine this?

Sarcoidosis: Beyond 40mg of Prednisone with Dr. Baughman
Sarcoidosis: Beyond 40mg of Prednisone with Dr. Baughman

We invited Dr. Robert Baughman, the world's leading expert on sarcoidosis from the University of Cincinnati onto the show to discuss some advanced topics in sarcoidosis management.

[JC SERIES] Episode 3: What's the Harm?
[JC SERIES] Episode 3: What's the Harm?

This episode is all about HARM:

Does a particular exposure to a particular variable cause harm in a given patient population?

Sepsis Multicast 6.0: Sepsis Smackdown with Chad Case, MD
Sepsis Multicast 6.0: Sepsis Smackdown with Chad Case, MD

We brought in Chad Case, MD: our System ICU Director and Chief of Critical Care at our hospital system to talk controversies in sepsis management. Is EGDT dead? If so, what do we teach non-intensivists that staff 70% of ICUs nation-wide? Does dobutamine belong in the trash along with CVP, ScvO2, passive leg raise, PA caths & POCUS? Is there anything we CAN do nowadays??

[JC SERIES] Episode 2: Therapy
[JC SERIES] Episode 2: Therapy

This episode is all about therapy. 

Therapy foregrounds seek to answer: Does a given intervention have a meaningful effect on patient outcomes?

[JC Series] Critical Appraisal: MACMAN Trial - SHOWDOWN: Video vs Direct Laryngoscopy
[JC Series] Critical Appraisal: MACMAN Trial - SHOWDOWN: Video vs Direct Laryngoscopy

Listen as we critically appraise the MACMAN Trial (JAMA 2017;317(5):483-493. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.20603).

This trial is an RCT looking at VL vs DL for routine orotracheal intubation in the intensive care unit.

This is part of our Journal Club Series - if you haven't listened to episode 1, hit pause and go listen to that first!

[JC Series] Episode 1: Feeling the Heat at Journal Club
[JC Series] Episode 1: Feeling the Heat at Journal Club

Today begins our first episode in our Journal Club Series.

In this episode, we'll be introducing the concepts of critical appraisal & EBM and discussing how in the world we're supposed to stay up to date in medicine.

Should They Stay or Should They Go? ECMO, ARDS and When to Transfer Downtown
Should They Stay or Should They Go? ECMO, ARDS and When to Transfer Downtown

We work in a multi-hospital system made up of multiple secondary community hospitals and one large quarternary facility downtown. Our community hospitals have a strong ICU team who routinely admit and manage patients with severe ARDS. They are capable of paralytics and proning but do not have access to ECMO. The questions we often struggle with are: who needs to transfer for ECMO? when do they need to transfer? how do we know who will end up being too sick to transfer? at what point should we make the phone call to the big house?

We sat down with our ICU director and our local ECMO guru to answer these questions. Tune in!
Beyond the Sliding Doors | life after critical illness with Ryan Gibson
The AO: Assessment Oriented Presentation
The AO: Assessment Oriented Presentation