This month’s critical care mini-fellowship discussion was about the article, “Timing of Vasopressors in Septic Shock” as well as a review of the recent PROCESS, ARISE and PROMISE trials. Overall mortality rates in septic shock improved significantly from the 1990s to 2012 which coincides…
To read the articles prior to the summary, check out Here and Here We kicked of the new cycle of King County’s Critical Care Mini-Fellowship with the Pulmonary Module! To start: The ARDS Task Force paper from 2012 that revised the definition of…
We discussed an informative and interesting review article on stroke management in October’s Critical Care Minifellowship meeting. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4062315/ This article highlights some important points (that shed light on how complicated the brain truly is) and touches upon some interesting neurological…
Our excellent Critical Care Medicine Mini-Fellowship met last week for our monthly meeting where we actually had an inter-departmental and inter-disciplinary presence to discuss cardiac arrest in the pregnant patient. We reviewed three articles which I have summarized for you…
Hi Readers, We have yet another new post this year for me to introduce. Dr. Sadia Hussain (of the Trauma Drama series) has teamed up with the wonderful Dr. Ashika Jain to create a Critical Care Mini-Fellowship. We thought it…