Search results for "ventilatory support"
Building trust aids decision making in end-of-life care
The patient is dying. More medical intervention is futile. But the family, speaking for their loved one, still wants everything done.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/decision-making.htm
15 Aug 2007
Test yourself: Palliative care
A 72-year-old, 90-kg (198-lb) woman who lives in an assisted living facility is evaluated after 10 days in the intensive care unit. She was admitted with severe urosepsis... and other cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/test-yourself.htm
15 Aug 2007
MKSAP primer: COPD
MKSAP primer: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/01/copd.htm
15 Jan 2008
Test yourself: Health care-associated infections
Health care-associated infections.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/04/test.htm
15 Apr 2008
Test yourself: Sepsis
Sepsis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/08/test.htm
15 Aug 2008
Delirium, treating drug resistance, fall prevention
A 75-year-old woman with a long history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is evaluated in the intensive care unit for delirium... and other cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/01/test.htm
15 Jan 2009
Most ICU patients die within 24 hours of terminal withdrawal of mechanical ventilation
Vasopressin antagonists helpful in hyponatremia
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/08/11/3.htm
11 Aug 2010
Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation
Both NPPV and CPAP are useful under a number of conditions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/09/tech.htm
15 Sep 2010
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NONINVASIVE POSITIVE-PRESSURE VENTILATIONBy Lisa Kirkland, FACP. Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV) is thedelivery of mechanical ventilatory support without aninvasive nasotracheal or endotracheal tube, using a tight-fittingface or nasal mask.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/09/acph-201009-tech1.pdf
24 Sep 2010
Test yourself: Sepsis
These cases and commentary, which address sepsis, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/01/ty.htm
15 Jan 2011