In this episode, we're going to discuss some of the finer points from our previous episode on ventilating a sick ARDS patient. A listener, Jay B., reached out with some awesome questions about the strategy and it warranted a whole other episode. Enjoy!

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In this episode, we'll be discussing mechanically ventilating a patient with incredibly low lung compliance and a high metabolic rate. It was rough, but we got through it!

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In this episode, we'll discuss Serum Os and how to go about using it in a clinical setting.

Serum Os = (Na X 2) + (Glu / 18) + (BUN / 2.8)

Corrected Sodium = Current Na + 2 (Current Glucose + 100)

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In this episode, we'll be discussing a patient with hypoxia AND lung obstruction! It's a fun little episode and takes a deeper look into what affects our CO2 and O2 on the vent.

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In this episode, we'll be diving into bilirubin and why that darn patient is so yellow.

In this episode we'll be looking at the differences between CMV and PCV modes on the Hamilton T1. If you're not watching this episode on Spotify, you're wrong!

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In this episode we'll be diving into CO2. How is moved, what the numbers actually mean, and how we get rid of it. finally, we'll top it off with a little bit of "why is that CO2 not normal?"

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In this episode, we'll be discussing the difference between static and dynamic lung compliance and how we can use these numbers to figure out if the patient has high airway resistance, low lung compliance or a mixture of both!

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