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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 079 | Hyponatraemia – management

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. Last time i was butchering my way through a diagnostic approach to hyponatraemia, particularly the forms likely to end up in the critical care end of the hospital. This time we’ll take a punt at how you might approach management.

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Tasty Morsels of Critical Care 078 | Hyponatraemia – diagnostic approach

Emergency Medicine Ireland

Welcome back to the tasty morsels of critical care podcast. We’ll often find 1 or 2 of these in our high dependency unit at any given time, mainly due to the requirement for frequent testing of Na levels that seems beyond the remit of normal ward level care. Caveat emptor and all that. There is indeed.

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

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Saline Solution on Mortality in Critically Ill Patients: The BaSICS Randomized Clinical Trial. 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. Lactated Ringer’s or Plasmalyte 148) over 0.9%

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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. In broad terms we can compare dialysis (the movement of small molecules across a membrane along an osmotic gradient) with ultrafiltration (the squeezing of plasma through a big sieve that retains the big bits of the plasma and lets the other bits leak out).

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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. On the other hand, lymphoid cells have a much smaller and narrower family tree differentiating into different types of lymphocytes and plasma cells.

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

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Guest Skeptic: Dr. 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. Balanced Multielectrolyte Solution versus Saline in Critically Ill Adults. Early work suggested potential harm from 0.9%

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Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP)

Core EM

Renal injury: isolated proteinuria or hematuria, moderate acute kidney injury with serum creatinine levels <2 mg/dL Skin: petechiae and purpura Despite severe thrombocytopenia, clinically significant bleeding is rare Figure 1.

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