Sitemap - 2019 - PulmCCM
The PHARLAP Trial: Recruitment Maneuvers Buy Stairway to Heaven?
ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: Asthmatic Mechanics
Adjusting D-dimer cutoffs could safely eliminate many CT angiograms to rule out PE
Patients who say they're allergic to penicillin are usually wrong
Inhaled steroids may not work for half of asthma patients
New tissue test for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis changes the diagnostic game
Navigational bronchoscopy real-world diagnostic yields reported
Intubating robots are coming for your job (someday)
ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: Pulmonary Embolism & Right Ventricular Ischemia
ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: Pulmonary Embolism & Pulmonary Vascular Resistance
Vitamin E acetate in THC liquid is major cause of vaping lung injury, says CDC
Beta-blockers doubled risk of hospitalization from COPD exacerbations (BLOCK-COPD)
ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: Pulmonary Embolism & Syncope
New guidelines on obesity hypoventilation syndrome released
Can C-reactive protein improve treatment for COPD exacerbations?
In sepsis, antibiotics reduced yield of blood cultures by almost 40%
Vitamin C reduces mortality from sepsis with ARDS in CITRIS-ALI randomized trial ... ?
Vaping-Associated Lung Injury – Part 2
Vaping-Associated Lung Injury – Part 1
2019 IDSA Guidelines for Community Acquired Pneumonia in Adults: To HCAP, we just say fare thee well
Major asthma guideline update: ICS-LABA as-needed replaces albuterol
Prophylactic IVC filters prevent PE in high-risk trauma patients, but were often unnecessary
Advisory from CDC re: Severe Pulmonary Disease Associated with Using E-Cigarette Products
Are you ethical enough to watch this video?
APRV and Esophageal Manometry: a new way to titrate T-Low?
ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: Venous Doppler & Veno-Cardiac Coupling – Part 2
ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: Venous Doppler & Veno-Cardiac Coupling – Part 1
Intravenous Fluids Act as Inotropes in Recent Sepsis Study
Dexmedetomidine helpful but inadequate alone for sedation (SPICE III)
Neuromuscular blockade for ARDS was no help, in supine patients
ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: The Respiratory System Pressure-Volume Curve
Open the Lung with Esophageal Manometry to Avoid VV-ECMO?
More than 90% of sepsis deaths are unpreventable, study concludes
Titrating PEEP using esophageal pressures did not improve ARDS outcomes (EPVent-2)
Overnight in-house intensivists don't clearly improve care: Review
Bag-mask ventilation during intubation in ICU prevents severe hypoxemia
Early norepinephrine improved septic shock, prevented pulmonary edema
Andexanet works as antidote to apixaban, rivaroxaban, data show
Intensive glucose management again fails to help -- this time, in stroke
Impella RP survival only 17% so far (not 73%), says FDA
ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: The Driving Power & Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury
ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: The Mechanical Power & Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury
Proton pump inhibitors did not improve outcomes in ICUs (SUP-ICU trial)
Time to start using newer oral anticoagulants for DVT-PE in cancer patients?
New antibiotic Omadacycline is effective for community-acquired pneumonia
Register for The Hospitalist and the Resuscitationist (Montreal, May 23-24)
ICU stethoscopes are covered in bacteria, and you're cleaning yours wrong
How should we relate to "unreasonable" families in the ICU?
Antibiotics excessively prescribed for asthma exacerbations; may prolong hospital stays
Advair Goes Generic! FDA authorizes Wixela Inhub
Should We Stop Trending Lactate in Septic Shock? ANDROMEDA-SHOCK Published
Theophylline as add-on therapy was no use in preventing COPD exacerbations
Echocardiography Does Not Correlate with Volume Status says CoDE-MiN Study
FDA approves new anti-influenza drug Xofluza; worked better than oseltamivir
FDA warns of aortic dissection with fluoroquinolones
Cricoid pressure no help during endotracheal intubation in large trial
Former Vanderbilt nurse arrested, charged with homicide for medication error
Decontaminating patients did not reduce bloodstream infections
Primatene Mist for asthma goes back on the market
ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: Blood Pressure
FDA approves revefenacin (Yupelri) for COPD
For most critically ill patients, a 'starvation diet' seems just fine (TARGET trial)
Is Critical Care Medicine becoming a Cargo Cult of Vitamin C?
Atrial Fibrillation for the Intensivist – part 2
Atrial Fibrillation for the Intensivist – part 1
Vitamin D supplementation reduced COPD exacerbations in deficient patients: meta-analysis
Hospitals should not implement one-hour sepsis bundles, say SCCM and ACEP
Keep O2 saturations at 96% or below for hospitalized patients: expert panel