5-step COVID: A cognitive aid for the pandemic airway
5-step COVID - a cognitive aid for the pandemic airway emphasising key consideration in the intubation of COVID19 patients.
Category CCC
The LITFL Critical Care Compendium is a comprehensive collection of pages concisely covering the core topics and controversies of critical care.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Overview of COVID-19, including assessment and management, from an Australia and New Zealand critical care perspective.
Checklist: Suspected COVID 19 intubation
Today I had the opportunity to review a very nicely created Peri-intubation Action Card that was put together in short order by two anesthesiologists from Scope Anesthesia - Dr. Janish Patel and Dr. Kimberly Blasius.
COVID-19 a 3-step approach to intubation
Pragmatic Recommendations for Intubating Critically Ill Patients with Suspected COVID-19. Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open.
Gastric Point-of-care Ultrasound (POCUS)
Gastric POCUS (point-of-care ultrasound) for the assessment of peri-procedural aspiration risk prior to induction of anaesthesia.
Liver Service Transfer / Referral
Remember the 3s and EncephalopaTHREE (ph 7.3, INR>3, BSL of 3.9 less, Encephalopathy) RIPE
ARDSnet Ventilation Strategy
ARDSnet Ventilation Strategy: Note that the definitions below have recently been revised - however they are included here as they were used in the ARDSNet trial.
A Most Discombobulating Gas
Are you discombobulated by this blood gas? It will lead you down an unexpected path...
Alcohol Toxidrome
AGENTS ethanol methanol ethylene glycol isopropyl alcohol others! CLINICAL FEATURES euphoria disinhibition stupour respiratory depression cardiovascular depression coma ocular toxicity = methanol hypocalcemia + renal failure = ethylene glycol haemorrhagic gastriyis = isopropyl alcohol INVESTIGATIONS ethanol level (> 400mg/dL ->…
Airway ultrasound the oesophagus
Transverse views of the lower anterior neck. The aim is to visualise the trachea and oesophagus, so that during tracheal intubation, inadvertent oesophageal intubation may be identified and immediately corrected.
DL Terminated
Why direct laryngoscopy is scheduled for termination.
ECG Case 096
29 yr old male presents complaining of vomiting, dizziness and felling 'vague'. Describe and interpret this ECG. LITFL Top 100 ECG