RAGEback: Weingart and co on Asthma
This RAGEback includes commentary and reaction to the RAGE Session Three discussion of severe life-threatening acute asthma. It features comments from Mary Shue on THAM, Greg Miller on lignocaine and someone called Scott Weingart (anyone heard of him?) on non-invasive ventilation.
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Here’s some stuff on lignocaine (a fairly evidence free zone!):
- BestBets: Lignocaine as a pretreatment to Rapid Sequence Induction of patients with Status Asthmaticus
- Maslow AD, Regan MM, Israel E, Darvish A, Mehrez M, Boughton R, Loring SH. Inhaled albuterol, but not intravenous lidocaine, protects against intubation-induced bronchoconstriction in asthma. Anesthesiology. 2000 Nov;93(5):1198-204. PMID: 11046206.
- More recently though, this paper suggested some beneficial effects on bronchoconstriction post-intubation: Adamzik M, Groeben H, Farahani R, Lehmann N, Peters J. Intravenous lidocaine after tracheal intubation mitigates bronchoconstriction in patients with asthma. Anesth Analg. 2007 Jan;104(1):168-72. PMID: 17179265.
Some stuff by Scott Weingart on Emcrit.org relevant to this discussion:
- EMCrit Podcast 15 — The Severe Asthmatic
- EMCrit Podcast 19 — Non-invasive Ventilation
- EMCrit Podcast 40 — Delayed Sequence Intubation (DSI)
LITFL Critical Care Compendium links:
- LITFL CCC — Alkali Therapies
- LITFL CCC — Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) and asthma
- LITFL CCC — Pretreatment drugs for Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI)
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Chris is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at the Alfred ICU in Melbourne. He is also a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University. He is a co-founder of the Australia and New Zealand Clinician Educator Network (ANZCEN) and is the Lead for the ANZCEN Clinician Educator Incubator programme. He is on the Board of Directors for the Intensive Care Foundation and is a First Part Examiner for the College of Intensive Care Medicine. He is an internationally recognised Clinician Educator with a passion for helping clinicians learn and for improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives.
After finishing his medical degree at the University of Auckland, he continued post-graduate training in New Zealand as well as Australia’s Northern Territory, Perth and Melbourne. He has completed fellowship training in both intensive care medicine and emergency medicine, as well as post-graduate training in biochemistry, clinical toxicology, clinical epidemiology, and health professional education.
He is actively involved in in using translational simulation to improve patient care and the design of processes and systems at Alfred Health. He coordinates the Alfred ICU’s education and simulation programmes and runs the unit’s education website, INTENSIVE. He created the ‘Critically Ill Airway’ course and teaches on numerous courses around the world. He is one of the founders of the FOAM movement (Free Open-Access Medical education) and is co-creator of litfl.com, the RAGE podcast, the Resuscitology course, and the SMACC conference.
His one great achievement is being the father of three amazing children.
On Twitter, he is @precordialthump.
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