Saving Lives Podcast: Critical Care w/eddyjoe...

A new prospective multicenter cohort of 250 patients with shock examines the safety and outcomes of peripheral vasopressor administration. Extravasation events were rare and clustered only after several days of infusion, while norepinephrine use and simple physiologic markers cor ...  عرض المزيد

Intravenous dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers can quietly worsen oxygenation by blunting hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction. In this episode, we break down the bedside mechanism, which agents are implicated, who’s at highest risk (post-op atelectasis, obesity, pneumonia, f ...  عرض المزيد

In this episode of Saving Lives: Critical Care Conversations, we discuss new evidence from the University of Pennsylvania that challenges how we time inotropic therapy in acute decompensated heart failure–related cardiogenic shock.This retrospective cohort study found that patien ...  عرض المزيد

In this episode of the Saving Lives Podcast, Eddy Joe breaks down a 2025 Journal of Critical Care study examining how the choice of the internal jugular vein for initial central line placement impacts outcomes when patients later need hemodialysis catheters. You'll learn why usin ...  عرض المزيد

In this episode, we dive into a new pilot RCT exploring the addition of acetazolamide to furosemide in critically ill patients. We break down the study’s methods, findings, and practical implications for fluid management in the ICU. Could this inexpensive, decades-old drug be the ...  عرض المزيد