Medmastery: bicarbonate loss and acid overload
Franz Wiesbauer explains how to differentiate between metabolic acidaemia caused by a loss of bicarbonate and that caused by the addition of acid.
Category CCC
The LITFL Critical Care Compendium is a comprehensive collection of pages concisely covering the core topics and controversies of critical care.
Airway Ultrasound
Ultrasound (US) is an accessible, non-invasive portable imaging modality which has utility in upper airway assessment.
Medmastery: compensation
Franz Wiesbauer looks at acid-base compensation and some super-simple rules that will help you decide whether compensation is adequate or not.
Sodium Nitroprusside
Sodium Nitroprusside is a drug used as an infusion to lower blood pressure; used in severe hypertension or perioperatively.
Levetiracetam
Levetiracetam (keppra) is a drug used as an anticonvulsant as monotherapy, or an adjunct, and as a Tier 2 agent in status epilepticus.
Desmopressin (DDAVP)
Desmopressin (DDAVP) is a drug used primarily for diabetes insipidus, haemophilia type A, and von Willebrand's disease.
Medmastery: acid-base disorders
Franz Wiesbauer explains the relationship between pH, HCO3 and pCO2 and a simple rule which will help you decide whether the primary problem is respiratory or metabolic in nature.
Mpox
Viral zoonotic infection, monkeypox causes a rash similar to chickenpox. Symptomatic infection involves a febrile illness and evolving rash lasting 2-4 weeks
Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate
Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate (CICO) - An anaesthetic emergency requiring clear communication, a structured approach, preparation for ESA
Clevidipine
Clevidipine is a drug used as an infusion for severe hypertension or patients who require narrow blood pressure parameters.
Right Ventricular Failure
Right Ventricular Failure: Unrecognised high mortality equal to that of LV failure. Right heart is a low-pressure system, good at dealing with volume (preload) to a point, does poorly with increased afterload (i.e. PH).
Alexander Tietze
Alexander Tietze (1864-1927) was a German surgeon who described Tietze syndrome: Idiopathic benign inflammation of one or more of the costal cartilages in 1921