While this can be an incredibly fulfilling career, critical care transport is not without despair. Is it possible to find the “silver lining” in even the most emotionally draining cases? What can we take away from cases like this. Jen Rosa provides insight in her very first Blog Post…
Don’t judge a transport by what you hear, but rather proceed with what you see. This is the “take home” message that Mary writes about in this posting. While a cardiac ablation procedure is becoming less dangerous as physicians become more proficient, this procedure is far from benign. This post discusses one potentially fatal complication
Resuscitation in sepsis has been focused on administration of fluids, pressors, and antibiotics, and not without justification. Over the past two decades we’ve observed the mortality rates decrease for severe sepsis/septic shock. Always looking forward, where does the next advancement lie?
Stabilizing patients with surgical emergencies for transport can be especially challenging. This post discusses the “basics” to this while introducing a fairly common surgery with a rather uncommon complication.
While we have been trained to NEVER disturb a perfectly functioning endotracheal tube, what if the tube was perfectly placed but sub-optimally functioning?…and where do we draw our line in the sand?
The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has been eye opening to say the least for the entire healthcare community. With critical care transport already having its unique set of challenges, the events of these last several weeks have generated another layer of complexity that most of us were unaware even existed. This discussion provides just one perspective
Critical Care Transport revolves around providing what the patient needs, when the patient needs it. Occasionally we forget that the patient is key in letting us as providers know “what is needed and when.” This discussion revolves around this very subject in the setting of adequate ventilatory support.
A “new but not so new” calcium channel blocker that we will see and use a lot more of in the near future. This post provides some valuable information and insights
One of MANY possible diagnoses in the infant with an initial clinical presentation of poor feeding and difficulty breathing. Once the definitive diagnosis is made, the next challenge is appropriate management based on type.
With cold weather around the corner, it’s time to think about the elements and how this additional layer can add to the complexity of transport