TIRBOs – Page 4 – Critical Care Scenarios

TIRBO #34: What makes it a central line?

Reflections on the definition of a central line, whether it’s arbitrary, and the clinical implications of making the distinction.

TIRBO #33: Positioning patients in bed

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When scooching a patient in the bed can make a difference.

TIRBO #32: Approaching bacteremia

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What does bacteremia mean to you? A brief overview of how this affects the picture of an infected patient.

TIRBO #31: Giving better lectures

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Some basic tactics for keeping attention in your live talks, presentations, and lectures.

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TIRBO #30: Experience is lying to you

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

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TIRBO #29: Understanding blood transfusion

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

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TIRBO #28: How I set PEEP

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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

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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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