ICU Ed and Todd-Cast Eddie and Todd

We're live from ATS! We decide to format our episode after the NEJM/JAMA/ATS combined session and talk about the articles presented there. Some of them we've talked about before but provide new insights from listeners and questions from the audience. Some of them are new and we provide our thoughts from the presentations (not enough time to fully read the articles)The one article we skip is ASTER that was published in JAMA by Ware et al during the conference. We want to spend a little more ti...

Episode 37! In this episode we talk about glycemic control in the ICU. We liked the flipped script and so we're again going old article first. NICE-SUGAR or "Intensive versus conventional glucose control in critically ill patients" was published in NEJM 2009 and then we talk about TGC-Fast or "Tight Blood-Glucose Control without Early Parenteral Nutrition in the ICU" published NEJM September of 2023 NICE SUGAR: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19318384/TGC-Fast: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.ni...

Episode 36! In this episode we talk about tranexamic acid in GI bleeds. We flip the script a little bit and talk about our OLD article first, HALT-IT or "Tranexamic acid in upper gastrointestinal bleed in patients with cirrhosis: A randomized controlled trial" published in Lancet in 2020. This sets the stage for our new trial "Tranexamic acid in upper gastrointestinal bleed in patients with cirrhosis" published in Kumar et al in Hepatology (a new journal for us!)HALT-IT: https://pubmed.ncbi.n...

Episode 35! In this episode we talk about extubation practices with "Effect of aggressive vs conservative screening and confirmatory test on time to extubation among patients at low or intermediate risk: a randomized clinical trial" published in Intensive Care Medicine by Hernandez et al. We then talk about an observation study by Zarrabian et al published in the Blue Journal "Liberation from Invasive Mechanical Ventilation with Continued Receipt of Vasopressor Infusions".SPEED UP: https://pu...

Episode 34! In this episode we talk about oxygen targets! Specifically we go over the two oxygen target analyses that were published simultaneously with ISICEM. We spend most of our time with HOT-COVID published by Nielson et al and then dip a little into individualized treatment effects of oxygen targets published by Buell et al - both published in JAMA March 2024. The latter is a complex topic and we hit some of the high points but please reach out to us if you want a more in depth discussi...

Episode 33! In this episode we are excited to be joined by Eddy Fan and Whitney Gannon, two extraordinary ECMO researchers to talk about VENT-AVOID or " Extracorporeal Carbon Dioxide Removal to Avoid Invasive Ventilation During Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease" published March 2024 by Duggal et al in the ATS Blue Journal.VENT-AVOID: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38261630/If you enjoy the show be sure to like and subscribe, leave that 5 star review! Be sure to follow us...