The "second-look EKG" is a good risk-management strategy, according to Robert Broida, MD, FACEP, chief operating officer of Physicians Specialty Limited Risk Retention Group in Canton, OH. If you are the treating physician for any patient with chest pain being considered for discharge, it is a good practice to have another physician review and initial the EKG before discharge, he advises.
Drowning is defined as asphyxia or suffocation from submersion/immersion in a liquid medium.
Participants in this study were 100 patients/surrogates and their physicians in a 26-bed medical ICU located in an academic medical center.
Supported by robust data from numerous clinical trials, low-tidal-volume ventilation is now standard-of-care in managing patients with acute lung injury (ALI) or the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
Although most critically ill patients require only short periods of respiratory support, a minority require prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV).