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You know, Halothane is right in all of his posts. This is not sarcasm. I'll say that the delivery on the last one is a bit rough though. Not trying to suck up here, but some good information is getting lost in this mess. I'm guilty of thumping the sedation/analgesia war drum, not fully...

Wrong See these papers: Pain from ET tube alone--at it's most: 8. At it's least:5! Rotondi AJ, Chelluri L, Sirio C, et al. Patients' recollections of stressful experiences while receiving prolonged mechanical ventilation in an intensive care unit. Crit Care Med. 2002;30(4):746-52. Lewis KS...

This is actually a much more complex topic. There are two reasons why this approach is a poor practice IMO. First: it promotes, and reinforces, the appropriately admonished practice of "cookbook medicine." No single agent, nor any broad combination of agents, applies to every patient. Each...

More recent paper shows pressure is even lower than originally thought: Anesthesiology. 2014 Feb;120(2):326-34. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000000094. Real-time detection of gastric insufflation related to facemask pressure-controlled ventilation using ultrasonography of the antrum and...