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SGEM#368: Just A Normal Saline Day in the ICU – The PLUS Study

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Aaron Skolnik is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and Consultant in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Mayo Clinic Arizona. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology, Addiction Medicine, Internal Medicine-Critical Care, and Neurocritical Care.

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 058 | Haematological malignancy

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Read More » Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. However in ICM there is a need to have a broad understanding of what some of the haematological acronyms might mean given that a fair number of these patients end up in the ICU.

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 070 | CRRT Modes

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Today we’re covering the ambitious topic of CRRT in the ICU. At its simplest the yellow ultrafiltrate has all the same concentrations in it as the plasma minus the large molecules like albumin. The final ICU specific mode of RRT is probably SLED.

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 044 | Calcium Disorders

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. It is with trepidation that I approach any topic that involves the negative feedback loops of endocrine control as I really struggle to keep it all straight in my head, Read More » Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast.

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 027 | Plasmapheresis

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Plasmapheresis (or PLEX) is one of the machines we tend not to have responsibility for in the ICU. Read More » Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Unlike CRRT we tend to defer to another specialty to do this.

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 031 | Guillain-Barre Syndrome Part 2

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. A meandering monologue through critical care fellowship exam preparation. GBS management can be nicely split into disease specific management and ICU supportive care. Read More » Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast.

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SGEM#347: It Don’t Matter to Me – Balanced Solution or Saline

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Aaron Skolnik is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and Consultant in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Mayo Clinic Arizona. Saline Solution on Mortality in Critically Ill Patients: The BaSICS Randomized Clinical Trial. Reference: Zampieri et al.

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