Critical Care and Hospitalist Medicine Made Ridiculously Simple

Sample figures of: Critical Care and Hospitalist Medicine Made Ridiculously Simple IN ACTION!

Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

A series of radiographs that illustrate the progression (follow arrows) in a patient presenting with fevers, chills, productive cough. Over 24 hours she rapidly progressed to bilateral airspace infiltrates with normal cardiac function consistent with ARDS.

Mechanical Ventilation

Think of your four major ventilator variables as playing cards, and you can only play two at a time: airway pressure, inspiratory time, tidal volume, and inspiratory flow. A simple way of summarizing your breath is:

• The volume control breath plays with two cards: volume and flow. These volume control breaths cannot use the pressure card.
• The pressure control breath plays with two cards: pressure and inspiratory time. The pressure control breath cannot play the volume or flow cards

POCUS Focus

The parasternal long axis view (PLAX) is shown and is obtained by placing the transducer between the 3rd and 4th ribs just to the patient's left of the sternum

Above: PLAX view of the heart with components illustrated include the left atrium (LA), the mitral valve (MV), the left ventricle (LV), the aortic valve (AV), the aortic root (AR), the descending aorta (DA), and the right ventricle (RV).