Critical Care Scenarios

Lightning rounds #7: Operationalizing clinical skill

Episode 37: Airway management for COVID-19

Lightning rounds #6: Point of care ultrasound

Episode 36: Preventing and managing complications

Lightning rounds #5: Career development for critical care APPs

Episode 35: When to operate in trauma with Dennis Kim

Episode 34: Lightning rounds #4

Episode 33: Ischemic stroke with Thomas Lawson

"Critical Care Scenarios" presents a neurocritical care episode featuring Brandon Odo, Brian Bowling, and Tom Lawson, a critical care nurse practitioner. The discussion centers around a stroke alert case involving a 75-year-old male with left-sided weakness, facial droop, and slurred speech. The team discusses the init...

Episode 32: Lightning rounds #3

Episode 31: Practical mobility, awakening, and delirium prevention with Kali Dayton

Episode 30: Diabetic ketoacidosis

Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) management requires a systematic approach to fluid resuscitation, insulin therapy, and electrolyte correction. Initial assessment focuses on confirming the diagnosis through anion gap metabolic acidosis and hyperglycemia, while ruling out concurrent infections or triggers. Fluid management p...

Episode 29: Lightning rounds #2

Episode 28: Diuresis, deescalation, and liberation with Matt Siuba

Episode 27: Wilderness medicine with Ross Hofmeyr

Episode 26: ICU sedation, mobility, and delirium with Dale Needham

Episode 25: Rhabdomyolysis

Rhabdomyolysis management centers on fluid resuscitation to preserve renal function, though clinicians must avoid over-resuscitation when urine output remains low. While bicarbonate and diuretics like acetazolamide are sometimes employed to alkalinize urine or force diuresis, evidence supporting these interventions rem...

Special episode: Surviving COVID-19 with Eve Leckie

Episode 24: Rural retrieval medicine with Minh Le Cong

Episode 23: COVID-19 pneumonia with Nicole King

Episode 22: Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage with Thomas Lawson

In this episode of Critical Care Scenarios, Brandon Odo and Brian Bowling are joined by Tom Lawson, a nurse practitioner specializing in neurocritical care, to discuss the management of a patient with a subarachnoid hemorrhage. The discussion begins with an overview of initial assessments and diagnostic considerations ...