February 2008

Friday February 29, 2008 Q; After successful completion of Transjugular Intrahepatic Porto-systemic Shunt (TIPS) for variceal bleeding - he...

Thursday February 28, 2008 Critical Care Rounds Critical Care Rounds is now available on line. Critical Care Rounds is derived from recent R...

Wednesday February 27, 2008 Ventilation during CPR - dangers of 'over-bagging' Per new ACLS guidelines, the rescuer should de...

Tuesday February 26, 2008 Effect of PEEP on the incidence of aspiration in mechanically ventilated patients See this interesting study...

Monday February 25, 2008 Improving delirium in ICU via education ! In a recent study, Fifty ICU nurses from two different hospitals (univers...

Sunday February 24, 2008 Clonidine and Bradycardia ! Clonidine is a alpha adrenergic agonist with sympatholytic activity and has been used ...

Saturday February 23, 2008 One good practice ! Beauty of Critical Care lies in details ! To get less erroneous or in other words co...

Friday February 22, 2008 5-point auscultation post intubation As soon as intubation is performed, it is a good habit to listen for breath so...

Thursday February 21, 2008 Noninvasive Ventilation before Intubation of Hypoxic Patients ? If enough denitrogenation is not provided critica...

Wednesday February 20, 2008 Minocycline in Acute Ischemic Stroke ? Minocycline is a second-generation derivative of tetracycline that has be...

Tuesday February 19, 2008 Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol—Revised (CIWA-Ar) The most objective tool to assess th...

Monday February 18, 2008 Vancomycin worse for MSSA ? Vancomycin is widely used for empirical treatment of patients with suspected gram-posit...

Sunday February 17, 2008 Clostridium difficile-Associated Disease in the ICU Setting Recently one retrospective observational, cohort study ...

Saturday February 16, 2008 Synergistic agents for Daptomycin Daptomycin is the first approved member of a new class of antibiotics, namely t...

Friday February 15, 2008 THAM Introduction; In patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), permissive hypercapnia is a strate...

Thursday February 14, 2008 Alinia(Nitazoxanide) in Clostridium Difficile Colitis Beside Vancomycin and Flagyl, an adjuvant treatment may be ...

Wednesday February 13, 2008 Q; Name few drugs which can be use in VRE (Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus) Meningitis ? A; New growing lit...

Tuesday February 12, 2008 Precedex® (dextromedetomidine) - better? Precedex is now a commonly used drip in ICUs due to its simultaneous anxi...

Monday February 11, 2008 LMA insertion - an excellent animation video This video is included in our video section

Sunday February 10, 2008 Venous PH Q: During or immediately following CPR, and in hemodynamic shock which PH is more worthwhile to follow ?...

Saturday February 9, 2008 Adjuvant treatment in Ethylene Glycol toxicity Q: Which 2 very easily available and cost-effective drugs should b...

Friday February 8, 2008 Dialysis and central catheter's diameter ! Internal diameter of each lumen of dialysis catheter is about twice t...

Thursday February 7, 2008 Sodium Bicarbonate in contrast induced nephropathy (CIN) - a risk ? Sodium Bicarbonate is increasingly being used...

Wednesday February 6, 2008 Case: 52 year old male is back from cardiac angioplasty with abciximab (ReoPro) infusion. Pre-cath labs were nor...

Tuesday February 5, 2008 Q: Can Wernicke's Encephalopathy be iatrogenic in ICU ? A: Yes, it can be precipitate in any patient by gluco...

Monday February 4, 2008 What to do in case of accidental esophageal intubation ! Editors' note: The following video is a practice or op...

Sunday February 3, 2008 Bimanual Laryngoscopy - BURP !! One 'trick' to enhance successful intubation is using 'Bimanual Laryngos...

Saturday February 2, 2008 Arterial line colonization and infection In this month of Critical Care Medicine 1 , a study published from austr...

Friday February 1, 2008 Procedure video - IJ central line under ultrasound Related previous video: Ultrasound windows for venous catheter ...