
The Synapse (Memorial Hospital MaineHealth)
The Synapse is a Critical Care and Emergency Medicine podcast breaking down topics and case studies into simple easy-to-digest segments to help build paramedic, nurse, and other pre-hospital and hospital clinicians into more robust providers. This podcast is tailored to the staff of the Mount Washington Valley EMS Program and the Memorial Hospital, but is open to any and all Emergency Medicine and Critical Care healthcare providers both in and out-of-hospital. Leave your technician hat outside, put on your clinician hat, and join us!
The Synapse (Memorial Hospital MaineHealth)
The Synapse Season 2 Episode 17 - Cardiogenic Shock Traps
Considered one of the more challenging types of shock to treat, Cardiogenic shock can present in different ways in different patients, and each patient may require a different treatment modality depending on cause, physiologic differences, etc. Do you reach for the Norepi? Epi? Milrinone? Dobutamine? Some fluids? Or maybe something mechanical in nature? Let's find out!