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Polypharmacy in the Elderly
(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2008-03-23)
Patients are often admitted to the ICU with an entire list of home medications. In this episode I talk about the implications and dangers of polypharmacy.
Extremity Compartment Syndrome
(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2008-05-18)
A limb-threatening complication that might be overlooked by the inexperienced provider.
Weaning (Liberating) from the mechanical ventilator
(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-05-25)
Don't wean people from their ventilators-- liberate them!! When are people ready to come off the ventilator? What are weaning parameters? How does one do a spontaneous weaning trial? What is the role of noninvasive ...
Bomb and Blast Injuries
(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-07-04)
Bomb and blast injuries: In the past blast injuries were limited to the battlefield of a rare industrial accident. The events of the past week are a reminder that civilian population centers are targets for bombing ...
Lightning Injuries
(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-05-14)
Lightning injuries are rare, but when you do treat a patient they can have facinating presentations. This lecture follows a patient we treated at Vanderbilt. The patient present to a local ED with stroke like symptoms ...
Meta-analysis of Glucose Control
(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2008-11-16)
Tight glucose control has been widely introduced into critical care. This meta-analysis, recently published in JAMA, critically evaluates the effects of these trials in reduction of sepsis as well as mortality. The results ...
Patient-Ventilator Interactions and ventilator discontinuation
(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2008-11-17)
Smoke Inhalation Injury: CO and Cyanide Toxicity
(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2007-10-14)
The onset of cold weather will bring with it an increase in structure fires. The leading cause of deaths in fires is complications from the inhalation of smoke-- not burns. Learn why smoke is so deadly as well as what ...
Do Steroids Improve Survivial in Sepsis? CORTICUS Trial
(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2008-02-01)
The results of the CORTICUS trial are discussed.
Glucometers in the ICU: how accurate are they?
(Vanderbilt University. Medical Center, 2008-04-24)
There is a large emphasis on intensive control of blood glucose in the ICU, but how accurate are the monitors we use to follow glucose? This episode reviews someof the limitations of deploying an instrument designed for ...