Saving Lives Podcast: Critical Care w/eddyjoemd

Fluvoxamine is an SSRI that may improve outcomes in COVID-19 when administered in the outpatient setting. This small trial published in JAMA two days ago looks into the positive effects of this therapy to prevent clinical worsening of patients with COVID. Show Notes : https://eddyjoemd.com/fluvoxamine Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime members) with your FREE 30-day trial by using my l...

Could Aspirin 81mg in COVID-19 patients help keep them off of mechanical ventilation, out of the ICU, and decrease mortality? Let's explore! Show Notes : https://eddyjoemd.com/aspirin-covid/ Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime members) with your FREE 30-day trial by using my link for Audible: CLICK HERE! You will be reminded when your trial is ending, by the way. 😉 Although great care...

Do COVID-19 patients who suffer a cardiac arrest in the hospital survive? Should we even attempt CPR on these COVID patients? We should. Show Notes : https://eddyjoemd.com/cardiac-arrest-covid/  Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime members) with your FREE 30-day trial by using my link for Audible: CLICK HERE! You will be reminded when your trial is ending, by the way. 😉 Although gr...

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This is meant to encourage you to pursue a career in the many branches of Critical Care Medicine, whether you're a physician, NP, PA, or nurse. I love my job/career and I love my team. I would love it if you had the same career satisfaction as well. These are my opinions and I could be wrong.  Show Notes: https://eddyjoemd.com/yes-critical-care/ Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime...

This paper by Dr. Stoller out of the Cleveland Clinic published in CHEST several days ago caught my eye. It describes how developing and practicing medicine with emotional intelligence helps us in healthcare with "enhanced patient satisfaction, lower burnout, lower litigation risk, and enhanced leadership success". Let's take a deeper dive on this.  Show Notes: https://eddyjoemd.com/emotional...

This is not meant to deter you from going into the many branches of Critical Care Medicine, whether you're a physician, NP, PA, or nurse. I love my job/career and I love my team. Rather to inform you of the challenges that you will have to deal with so that you're not blindsided. Show Notes: https://eddyjoemd.com/not-critical-care/ Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime members) with your...

This is not meant to deter you from going into the many branches of Critical Care Medicine, whether you're a physician, NP, PA, or nurse. I love my job/career and I love my team. Rather to inform you of the challenges that you will have to deal with so that you're not blindsided.   Show Notes: https://eddyjoemd.com/not-critical-care/ Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime members) wit...

This is not meant to deter you from going into the many branches of Critical Care Medicine, whether you're a physician, NP, PA, or nurse. I love my job/career and I love my team. Rather to inform you of the challenges that you will have to deal with so that you're not blindsided. Show Notes: https://eddyjoemd.com/not-critical-care/ Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime members) with your...

When patients have hypokalemia, you want to fix it. So you give potassium to make the numbers pretty.  You go ahead and give some potassium and do what the protocol says to do: recheck. Labs come back, poor patient got stuck for these labs. Potassium burned a bit on the way in because the IV was acting funny. Low and behold, the potassium did not go up. What just happened? Where did it go? Did you...

Can we wean patients off of vasopressors faster by providing them with Midodrine? The MIDAS trial (Effect of midodrine versus placebo on time to vasopressor discontinuation in patients with persistent hypotension in the intensive care unit) published on September 3rd, 2020 is a randomized-controlled trial looking at this question. Show Notes: https://eddyjoemd.com/midodrine/ Receive a FREE audiobo...

Providing Calcifediol (25-hydroxyvitamin D 3 ) to COVID patients in this Pilot Study showed that it decreased the need for transfer to the intensive care unit. Let's take a look at why we shouldn't exactly put it in the water... yet.  Show Notes: https://eddyjoemd.com/vitamind-covid/ Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime members) with your FREE 30-day trial by using my link for Audib...

Ever wonder when you should pull the trigger and call in the ECMO team or your ECMO center to determine whether your patient who is in severe ARDS is a good candidate for venovenous ECMO? I review some suggested criteria published in CHEST. Show Notes: www.eddyjoemd.com/ECMO Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime members) with your FREE 30-day trial by using my link for Audible: CLICK HERE...

Do you use Central Venous Pressure (CVP) to assess whether your patient is fluid responsive or not? What about volume status? Let's take a deep dive into the data to see whether this actually works or not. Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime members) with your FREE 30-day trial by using my link for Audible: CLICK HERE! You will be reminded when your trial is ending, by the way. 😉 Altho...

Reviewing the rationale behind checking for hypophosphatemia in patients who are critically ill in the intensive care unit (ICU) exploring the functions of phosphate, phosphate metabolism, as well as causes of hypophophatemia. Unfortunately, there isn't much randomized controlled study data about this.  Show Notes: www.eddyjoemd.com/hypophosphatemia Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Pr...

When should we discontinue contact and isolation precautions in COVID-19 patients who are hospitalized? Let's take a look at the CDC recommendations as of August 16th, 2020. Show Notes: https://eddyjoemd.com/covid-precautions/ Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime members) with your FREE 30-day trial by using my link for Audible: CLICK HERE! You will be reminded when your trial is ending,...

Lecture 1 on my IV Fluid Series. In this podcast, I discuss how much fluid we keep intravascularly after resuscitation, as well as the history behind the creation of Normal Saline, Ringer's lactate/lactated ringers, Plasma-lyte and Normosol.  Show Notes: https://eddyjoemd.com/ Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime members) with your FREE 30-day trial by using my link for Audible: CLI...

Reviewing the trial published in JAMA on 8/21/2020 where they looked at the clinical outcomes of Remdesivir in Moderate COVID-19.  Show Notes: https://eddyjoemd.com/remdesivir/ Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime members) with your FREE 30-day trial by using my link for Audible: CLICK HERE! You will be reminded when your trial is ending, by the way. 😉 Although great care has been...

Early intubation or a trial of high-flow nasal cannula for COVID-19 patients? This retrospective analysis out of Emory assesses the outcomes from the different strategies.  Show Notes: https://eddyjoemd.com/intubation-covid/ Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime members) with your FREE 30-day trial by using my link for Audible: CLICK HERE! You will be reminded when your trial is endi...

Have you ever wondered why we don't give sodium bicarbonate to patients with a metabolic acidosis or a lactic acidosis? In this podcast I discuss the historical context of it and bring forth more recent data that may change the mind of the naysayers.  Show Notes: https://eddyjoemd.com/lactic-acid-sepsis Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime members) with your FREE 30-day trial by usi...

Another day, another IV vitamin C trial. It appears as if the dust is settling a bit on all this. This paper will be known as the ACTS trial for A scorbic acid, C orticosteroids and T hiamine in S eptic shock. Before digging into the paper, though, I provide a bit of a biologic rationale as why these trials should improve outcomes. Show notes: https://eddyjoemd.com/vitaminc/ Receive a FREE audiobo...

The ATESS trial looked at IV thiamine and vitamin C in septic shock patients. They enrolled patients early in 4 academic ED's in South Korea. Here, I break down the paper, give my opinions, and provide you all with some insight.  Show notes: https://eddyjoemd.com/vitaminc/ Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime members) with your FREE 30-day trial by using my link for Audible: CLICK H...

Every hear these terms thrown around and wondered what they meant? ScvO2, SvO2, mixed venous blood gas. I break down these confusing terms and provide examples of how one should interpret them in the critically ill patient.  Show Notes: https://eddyjoemd.com/scvo2svo2/ Although great care has been taken to ensure that the information in this podcast are accurate, eddyjoe, LLC shall not be held res...

Diving into the world of mechanical circulatory support and right ventricular assist devices, I'd like to introduce you to the ProtekDuo. I learned about this device while creating a lecture titled "Cardiogenic Shock: Rise of the Machines". Chances are that you'll more likely than not be caring for a patient with one of these sooner rather than later. Better to familiarize yourself with it now. Sh...

Could colchicine help keep patients out of the inflammatory phase of COVID-19 and help save lives? A quick look at the GRECCO-19 Trial out of Greece which was an open label trial looking at 105 patients with COVID and their outcomes.  Show Notes: https://eddyjoemd.com/colchicine-covid/  Receive a FREE audiobook (TWO for Amazon Prime members) with your FREE 30-day trial by using my link f...