Month January 2019
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Confidence Intervals

Confidence intervals are the range around the sample mean within which you predict the means of the population to lie

CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Resuscitative Thoracotomy

Resuscitative thoracotomy is a thoracotomy performed prehospital, in the emergency department or elsewhere that is an integral part of the initial resuscitation of a patient; an alternate term is emergency thoracotomy

CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Crush Syndrome

Crush Syndrome: prolonged ischaemic and muscular damage -> rhabdomyolysis and reperfusion injury on release; limb often initially numb with a peripheral pulse -> rapid swelling with compartment syndrome

CCC Critical Care Compendium 680

Asterixis DDx

Asterixis is the sudden loss of muscle tone during sustained contraction of an outstretched limb. It is associated with a silent period on EMG, distinguishing it from myoclonus, and is sometimes referred to as ‘negative myoclonus’.

CCC Critical Care Compendium 680

Intracranial calcification DDx

Intracranial calcification may be divided into neoplastic, vascular, infectious or miscellaneous causes; basal ganglia calcification suggests specific underlying causes.

CCC Critical Care Compendium 680

Fixed dilated pupil DDx

Suspect herniation due to an intracranial mass lesion as a cause of fixed dilated pupil in an unconscious patient. A fixed dilated pupil in an awake patient is NOT due to herniation.

Sidney Weinstein (1922 - 2010) 340

Sidney Weinstein

Sidney Weinstein (1922 - 2010) was and American neuroscientist and neuropsychologist. Semmes-Weinstein monofilament test and the Weinstein Enhanced Sensory Test

CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Volume versus Time Graph

Volume vs time graph: shape determined by flow pattern used in ventilation mode:-> ascending ramp: square wave; -> sinusoidal ramp: sine wave; -> exponential rise: decelerating flow pattern