He sent me work appropriate Valentine’s Day memes today 🥰🥰
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If your patient is hypoxic and on a Cardene drip, try turning off the Cardene. It can cause pulmonary shunting.

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Check out the @stemlyns.bsky.social podcast I recorded at Tactical Trauma 24 in Sundsvall - VA ECMO in trauma, plus a glimpse into potential future endovascular resuscitation therapies in severe injury! www.stemlynsblog.org #MedSky #CritCareSky #ECMOSky #ECLS #ECMO #Trauma #PHEM #EM #Surgery

One of the few papers I’ve seen mention differential carbon dioxide in addition to differential hypoxia.
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Awesome trip to 🇫🇷 for #ParisRescue - this time around as faculty! Awesome to meet, teach and socialise with #ECPR and #ECMO enthusiasts from around the 🌍! #MedSky #EMSky #CritCareSky #ECMOSky

Do patients receiving extracorporeal membrane-oxygenation need antibiotic prophylaxis? A systematic review and meta-analysis on 7,996 patients - BMC Anesthesiology Background Patients undergoing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) are particularly susceptible to infections: 42% experience sepsis and 26% develop a nosocomial infection (NI). Whether antibio...

New systematic review describing antibiotic ppx in ECMO

PPx
🚫 no association with 30 day mortality
🤷 possible reduction in nosocomial infections (OR 0.81, NNT ~40 pts)

Current ELSO recs against ppx. About 50% of ECMO centers use ppx

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link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Bit niche but is #ECMOsky here yet? If so great paper on nomenclature in VAECMO #MedSky #ICUSky