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 24 - Challenging Concepts in Ventilation
We have all probably encountered the hypoxic patient who did not improve with oxygen. Why might that have been? Did you stop at that moment and consider which of the four types of hypoxia they may be suffering from? Or whether this was a ventilation and oxygenation problem? A perfusion problem? Multiple of the above? Is there some way we could tell in the moment where exactly the problem was?
What about the relationship between EtCO2 and PaCO2? When is EtCO2 unreliable? And finally, what is the relationship between SpO2 and PaO2? Find out all of this and more in this episode!
