Perioperative fluid management
Perioperative fluid management: an adequate and timely replacement of actual losses with appropriate preparations seems to be an ideal primary approach
Category CCC
The LITFL Critical Care Compendium is a comprehensive collection of pages concisely covering the core topics and controversies of critical care.
Global Increased Permeability Syndrome
Global Increased Permeability Syndrome (GIPS) "is characterised by high capillary leak index (CLI, expressed as the ratio of CRP over albumin x 100), excess interstitial fluid and persistent high extravascular lung water index (EVLWI), no late conservative fluid management (LCFM) achievement, and progression to organ failure"
Fluid Therapy Literature Summaries
Fluid Therapy Literature Summaries
Assessing fluid status
Advantages and disadvantages of different methods for assessing fluid status
Albumin versus normal saline
Albumin versus normal saline
Albumin
Albumin: colloid solution; 4, 10, 20%; use in the critically unwell is controversial
Adverse Outcome Template
template for answering on 'adverse outcome' questions in the FCICM exam
Medical futility
"Futility" means the absence of benefit; a consensus definition of medical futility does not exist; ~80% of ICU patients who die do so as a consequence of a decision to withhold or withdraw life support
Military Anti-Shock Trousers (MAST)
Military Anti-Shock Trousers (MAST): inflatable trousers once recommended for exsanguinating pelvic injury, now considered obsolete; aka "pneumatic anti-shock garments" (PASG)
Autotransfusion device and cell salvage
Autotransfusion device and cell salvage; collection system used to recycle blood from a bleeding patient
CRRT Haemodialysis Filter
CRRT Haemodialysis Filter; continuous veno-venous hemodiafiltration
Heliox
Heliox is a mixture of helium and oxygen, by substituting helium for nitrogen -> reduction in density of the gas -> reduction in Reynolds number -> more laminar flow -> reduces airflow resistance, work of breathing and dynamic hyperinflation