Choosing patient-tailored hemodynamic monitoring

Choosing patient-tailored hemodynamic monitoring

Echocardiographic Hemodynamic Monitoring in the Critically Ill Patient

Echocardiography has shown to be an essential diagnostic tool in the critically ill patient's assessment. In this scenario the initial fluid therapy, such as it is recommended in the actual clinical guidelines, not always provides the desired results and maintains a considerable incidence of cardiorrespiratory insufficiency. Echocardiography can council us on these patients' clinical handling, ...

Hemodynamic Monitoring

1 Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne 92104, France 2Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Western Clinical School, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia 3Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, 410 Lakeville Road, New Hyde Park, NY 11040, USA 4Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Dupuytren Teaching Hospi...

UPDATE IN INTENSIVE CARE: HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING IN THE CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT Objectives of hemodynamic resuscitation

Patient-tailored acetylcysteine administration.

Acetylcysteine is a familiar friend of emergency physicians, intensivists, and medical toxicologists. There are 2 broad categories of acetaminophen toxicity that receive acetylcysteine therapy: acute single overdose ingestion and repeated supratherapeutic (“chronic”) ingestion. Since the 1970s, we have used acetylcysteine to reduce liver injury and death in patients with an acute overdose inges...