The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast
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 open to any and all Emergency Medicine and Critical Care healthcare providers both in and out-of-hospital. Every effort is made to put out as many various topics to cater to everyone's interests and levels. Leave your technician hat outside, put on your clinician hat, and join us!
**Disclosures:
1) This is a non-monetary podcast, created and edited for free for your enjoyment and learning purposes.
2) The opinions and information presented in these podcast episodes is based off of up-to-date research, the latest evidence-based-guidelines, and/or anecdotal experience/opinions of the author.
3) Under no circumstances does this podcast or the information presented within each episode serve as authorization to work outside your guidelines, protocols, or workplace rules otherwise. When in doubt, contact Medical Control for guidance.
The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast
The Synapse Season 2 Episode 93 - Winters Formula Pearls and Pitfalls
How can we determine where a patient with metabolic acidosis *should* be compensating in regard to expected PaCO2? Enter Winters Formula. In this episode we will talk about how it was derived, its strengths and weaknesses, how to use it, and more. You may be surprised by when and how it was derived, and how long we went without any extra evidence to support it.
Predicted PaCO2 = 1.5 x [HCO2] + 8 (+/- 2)
