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Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring in Critically Ill Adults?

REBEL EM

J Intensive Care Med 2024. J Intensive Care Med 2024. Potential issues include pain for patients, limiting movement/participation with physical therapy, bacteremia, and potentially can risk digital ischemia. Paper: Haber, EN et al. Accuracy of Noninvasive Blood Pressure Monitoring in Critically Ill Adults. to 1.12; p = 0.03

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An EM Resident’s Guide to Basic Airway Management

Core EM

NIV was recently shown to be much superior in avoiding hypoxia during intubation, compared to using a NRB (Gibbs 2024). Our esteemed MICU colleagues have endorsed this opinion) How about asthma? ” New England Journal of Medicine (2024). Want an even more powerful option? Pre-oxygenate with BiPAP (Farkas 2015). DAVID C.

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