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ESICM Webinar Mentioned

* ESICM Seminar on COVID Ventilation

Read this to See the Thoughts of Actual Smart People

* in ICM

M. Ramzy's Infographic on the Article

Subtypes of COVID
Mild

Silent Hypoxemia (can cause iatrogenic injury when patients are intubated in this phase)

Indolent- Fine then Not (Intubated or Not-Inflammatory Markers)

Hyperacute

 
Cytokine Storm
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) Overlap / DIC

 
PathoPhys
Loss of hypoxic vasoconstriction

Micro-thrombotic disease

 
Avoidance of Intubation
Tachypnea, hypoxemia, do not seem to be indication

Mental status, Increased Dyspnea, PaCO2 rising

 
Progression of Therapies
NC

Venti

NRB+NC

Hi Flo with Surg Mask

CPAP—must monitor for excessive WOB

 
Non-Intubated Proning
ask them to move

 
Run them Dry
but not too dry--must replace external and insensible losses or else badness ensues

 
How to not kill patients with Intubation
EMCrit Airway Page

 
How to Ventilate
High FiO2 Strategy—Normal Compliance Patients
8 ml/kg, high fiO2

keep checking Driving Press and Plat

Avoid the PEEP Tables

Driving Pressure <=15

Proning

 

Prost/NO

 
Low Compliance Patients
6 ml/kg

Conventional Low Vt PEEP Table

Driving Pressure > 15
APRV
works for either subtype

if experienced, should be dominant mode of ventilation

 
Other Meds

* Heparin
* Steroids

 
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