The LITFL Critical Care Compendium is a comprehensive collection of pages concisely covering the core topics and controversies of critical care.
OVERVIEW The ‘Coroner’s clot’ is an occult clot of blood remaining in the nasopharynx behind the soft palate following local surgery or trauma that has the potential to cause fatal airway obstruction following extubation/ removal of a supraglottic airway device (SAD) So named…
Suction Assisted Laryngoscopy Airway Decontamination (SALAD) is the term coined by Jim Du Canto and colleagues for a suction technique used to preventing airway soiling during laryngoscopy when there is profuse regurgitation
Unplanned extubation of mechanically ventilated patients is relatively common ( 0·5% to 14·2% of ICU patients in most studies, higher in a few outliers)
Video laryngoscopy: multiple types of video-assisted laryngoscope devices are available. Four step procedure (Mouth - Screen - Mouth - Screen):
This is an airway emergency with upper airway obstruction in a paediatric patient.
Here is the 14th update to the Critical Care Compendium, your LITFL guide to the core and not-so-core knowledge base required of a critical care physician.
The latest update of major additions and revisions to the Critical Care Compendium. Topics featured include: driving pressure, PEA, sepsis definitions, sepsis biomarkers, procalcitonin, as well as open chest and delayed sternal closure.
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a syndrome of pathologic immune activation characterized by clinical signs and symptoms of extreme inflammation
The 12th update to the Critical Care Compendium, with ECMO, cardiac arrest after cardiac surgery, gas embolism, apnoeic oxygenation, & more!
Here is the eleventh update to the Critical Care Compendium, your LITFL guide to the core and not-so-core knowledge base required of a critical care physician.
Checkout the latest round up of new entries and major revisions in LITFL's Critical Care Compendium. Enjoy!
Time for the latest update on what is new in LITFL's Critical Care Compendium... number nine!