TIRBO #30: Experience is lying to you

When the lessons of memory, clinical experience, and time may be more deceptive than instructive.

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TIRBO #29: Understanding blood transfusion

A review of the basics of blood donation, storage, typing, screening, matching, and transfusion.

Transfusion medicine series at Critical Concepts

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TIRBO #28: How I set PEEP

A review of the methods of PEEP setting, including stress index, PV loops, esophageal manometry, and PEEP tables, and finally my preferred method of driving pressure trials.

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TIRBO #27: The halo effect

An important cognitive bias in medicine, and how the COVID pandemic has shown us that generalizing the assumption of competence is a treacherous pitfall.

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TIRBO #26: RadioPEEP discordance

On today’s TIRBO: A sinister pitfall that may lead you to injuring lungs and worsening outcomes.

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TIRBO #24: Two things people need to hear

On today’s TIRBO, a couple things worth saying when a patient is struck down with unexpected critical illness: it’s going to take time, and it wasn’t anyone’s fault.

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