Eating Batteries, Drinking Alien’s Blood – Part 2
The blood gas gives you back much information... Yet, you should know how to interpret them, how to go back to the source of the problem, and how to treat it... Acidosis and alkalosis are not just two different entities, they are two different worlds...
Eating Batteries, Drinking Alien’s Blood – Part 1
How many times have you heard the anesthesiologists or the ER doctors asking for a blood gas during an emergency? Do you know why it is so important? Do you know how to read it? Here is the first part of our brief talk about the most important lab test in a critical patient.
Being Fluid
Pathophysiology of trauma induced coagulopathy is quite complex and involves many pathways. In this brief review you can find what TIC is and how it occurs...
Stairway to Heaven
Sometimes the cardiocirculatory system needs help to maintain an adequate bloodflow to the vital organs... Find out what to use when adequate fluid resuscitation isn't enough, what inotropes and vasopressors are, and when to use them...
The Importance of Breathing Clean Air
Intubating a patient in an emergency setting is not the same as in the operating room... The tube must be always placed inside the trachea, but all the small things that bring to that moment are deeply different... After all, the success is in the details...
