Hocus POCUS
Ventilators
Wave to Me
Give me the Antidote
Ex-Squeeze Me
100
Hypotensive 88 year old with altered mental status.What is AAA
100
This ventilator mode.What is SIMV?
100
This ECG, and its treatment.What are torsades de pointes and electrical therapy, magnesium, and antiarrhythmic.
100
Sodium Bicarbonate
What are tricyclic antidepressants?
100
This is the surviving sepsis guidelines preferred pressor order
What is norepinephrine, epinephrine, vasopressin, dopamine or phenylephrine.
200
What is collapsing IVC
200
The trigger for the breaths on this assist control ventilation strip.What is patient triggered/spontaneous breathing?
200
What is Brugada syndrome?
200
Protamine
What is heparin?
200
This vasopressor can be administered through an intraosseous line.
What is ANY OF THEM.
300
What is a large pericardial effusion with tamponade?
300
This mode utilizes very short expiratory time for pressure release. It has a severe I:E ratio. In this mode, it does not allow for complete exhalation.
What is Airway Pressure Release Ventilation (APRV)?
300
The condition, and the pathognomonic ECG finding.What are hypercalcemia and Osborne J-waves.
300
Intralipid
What are local anesthetics, calcium channel blockers, or beta blockers.
300
Another name for vasopressin.
What is antidiuretic hormone?
400
The eponymous sign shown above.What is McConnell's sign?
400
This is a condition that could cause high peak pressures with a normal or low plateau pressure.
What is bronchoconstriction, tube kinking or plugging, or patient biting ETT?
400
The pathologic condition implied.What is asthma or COPD with bronchoconstriction/air trapping?
400
Hydroxycobalamin
What is cyanide toxicity?
400
This is a local antidote for extravasation of vasopressors.
What is phentolamine?
500
The finding in this CCU patient with a new murmur on post STEMI day 3. What is ventricular wall rupture.
500
This is a possible cause of high peak pressure and high plateau pressure.
What is ARDS, CHF, pulmonary fibrosis, obesity, interstitial lung disease, or pneumothorax.
500
The pathologic finding in this A-line tracing.What is pulsus alternans?
500
Cyproheptadine and Dantrolene
What is neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
500
This reducing antidote also has vasopressor action, used for either vasoplegia after cardiac surgery or as a last line pressor for refractory hypotension.
What is methylene blue?