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CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Flow Volume Loops

Flow Volume Loops. provide a graphical analysis of inspiratory and expiratory flow from various inspired lung volumes. Breathing across a pneumotachograph subjects inhale to TLC -> FEC manoeuvre -> rapidly inhale back to TLC.

CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Volutrauma

Volutrauma = complication from mechanical ventilation that may manifest as: extra-alveolar air and/or acute ventilator induced lung injury.

CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Persistent and Chronic Critical Illness

Advances in intensive care have led to a growing cohort of patients of patients, who would have otherwise succumbed to acute illness, survive in a state dependent on prolonged intensive care therapies including mechanical ventilation

CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Haematuria in trauma

Haematuria in trauma may be microscopic (with or without symptoms) or macroscopic. In general, the greater the degree of hematuria the greater the risk of significant intra-abdominal injury (including non-urinary tract structures)

CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Assessment

OVERVIEW TBI assessment involves: HISTORY General (AMPLE) Specifically: EXAMINATION Specifically in TBI assess: Evidence of base of skull fracture: Look for evidence of trans-tentorial herniation: Look for evidence of underlying causes and complications INVESTIGATIONS Bedside Laboratory Imaging References and Links

Robert Meyer (1864 - 1947) 340

Robert Meyer

Robert Meyer (1864 - 1947) was a gynaecologist and pathologist. Eponymously affiliated with the Weigert-Meyer rule he described in 1907. Meyer was recognised world wide as one of the founders of gynaecological pathology and for his contributions to embryology.

CCC Critical Care Compendium 680

Pseudofracture DDx

There are multiple reasons why lucent lines may appear in bones, or why bone contours may appear abnormal, mimicking fractures.