By vanstrokepr on July 5, 2019
If your nursing colleagues can smell it, and you can’t, fear not! We’ve got you covered for all things C. Diff on an ICU-level. Also, the audio quality is particularly bad on this episode, we apologize. Just the realities of recording on the road!
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By vanstrokepr on June 27, 2019
In this episode, we cover the always vexing crystalloid vs colloid debate. Farkas also brings it to the next level with a new paradigm for using large volume resuscitations to treat your patient’s acid-base disturbances. Come take a listen for all things alkalinizing, acidifying and maintaining.
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By vanstrokepr on June 20, 2019
In this episode, we’ve got you covered for all things hypercalcemia. Erase those memory banks that are filled with hyper-hydration and forced diuresis and come fill them back up with appropriate fluid resuscitation, the 1-2-punch for those osteoclasts and all the rest of the pearls for hypercalcemia.
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By vanstrokepr on June 13, 2019
Pull those ankle socks up, and get ready for some ankle-clonus-good-times. In this episode, we cover one of those “hot and bothered” presentations of Serotonin Toxicity. Come listen to a summary of the chapter that includes, definition, clinical presentation, treatment and clinical pearls.
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By vanstrokepr on June 6, 2019
In this episode, we cover an often overlooked infectious cause of that ICU level patient presenting with all kinds of badness: come listen for a sound education on all things babesiosis, anaplasmosis & ehrlichiosis, and rocky mountain spotted fever (RMSF).
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By vanstrokepr on May 30, 2019
Either its a glaringly obvious diagnosis (because your patient is bright yellow and wont wake up) or its apart of a complex presentation, hepatic encephalopathy is one presentation you need to have down! Come listen to consolidate your knowledge around nitrogen reduction, shunts (the good, the bad, the ugly) and all things HE!
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By vanstrokepr on May 16, 2019
In this episode, we help you take a more nuanced approach to those patients with “coca-cola urine.” When that CK is a climbing and you don’t know what to do, remember these pearls!
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By vanstrokepr on May 9, 2019
In this episode, you get a two-for-one. Come for the hypophosphatemia, stay for the hyperphosphatemia.
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By vanstrokepr on May 2, 2019
Contrast induced nephropathy is the “white walker” of critical care and emergency medicine. Come take a listen as we discuss the potential error in creating a clinically non-meaningful entity, and how we should address this in our daily clinical work.
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By vanstrokepr on April 25, 2019
In this episode we cover all those big highlights for infective endocarditis. Come solidify your approach to clinical presentation of both left and right sided disease, approach to imaging, and empiric therapy. We’ve even got the hot topic of dual coverage down!
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By vanstrokepr on April 19, 2019
In this episode we cover the finer points of the high stakes resuscitation of VF / VT “Storm.” Come get a solid approach to identification, resuscitation and nuanced management.
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By vanstrokepr on April 11, 2019
Have you ever seen that patient with a bicarb of 6 and a lactate of 14, and they are just smiling at you and texting their spouse about taxes? In this episode, we explore the direct, indirect, and obscured role that metformin can play in your critical care patients. Come listen for all things diagnosis,
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