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Too heavy for the helicopter :confused:

The Air Methods AMPED Podcast is now available on iTunes along with the Libysn website. The podcast highlights critical care topics with flight scenarios and education AMPED iTunes

Did you switch the sensitivity to P? And consider switching to SIMV?

I think there are two different things being discussed. There are programs that are doing true pre-hospital ECLS cannulations and then there is what Tigger is describing as what some call "ECMO Retrieval" in which the ambulance is just a means to get the ECMO team and equipment to an non-ECMO...

I am a huge advocate for ECMO however field ECMO is just a flex and waste of resources. Have a robust ED ECMO program and encourage early transport with mechanical CPR for appropriate patients Most intra-arrest ECPR are shotgun fem-fem VA. I am assuming they will have pre-primed circuits...

TBI Awareness Month. Protect your dome

I have no first hand experience however with talking to friends in CA it seems that like stated above many of the "CCT-RN" transfers are typical ALS stuff and not what most would consider actual critical care.

Yes, I am getting the Pfizer next week. Although it may feel rushed compared to previous vaccines I do feel that mRNA process appears to be solid.

Most couldn't even handle a Blackhawk

If they want to stick with MD it would likely be a MD902

Congrats! A very difficult decision I am sure. I am avoiding growing up and having to make that call ha

Happy Halloween!

Deranged Physiology. Except the website doesn't seem to be working lately Or Intensive blog and LIFTL https://intensiveblog.com/cicm-second-part-exam-practice-saqs-19122019/

Patients in septic shock are usually hyperdynamic initially due to tachycardia and non-existent SVR which allows them maintain a reasonable SV until they become either profoundly hypovolemic or have cardiac dysfucntion from acidosis. The patients we see who actually have invasive hemodynamics...

Correct, at appropriate dosages the duration of action is pretty similar with Vec being slightly longer and the onset being the bigger difference. I guess a more general statement would be that a short acting sedative with a long acting paralytic isn't an ideal combination for inexperienced...