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 3 Episode 34 - FloTrac Monitoring
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For those hospitals and critical care transport teams who are not able to provide PAC/Swan-Ganz monitoring, but want real-time invasive monitoring that relies on something your patient probably already has, an arterial line, the FloTrac monitoring system is a possibility to look at. This device gives us real-time information about cardiac output, stroke volume, stroke volume variability, and more. How you use this information and when it is reliable vs not, well, that is up to you and the patient conditions. This is a bit more on the critical care side, but is still worth listening in on as we discuss aspects of sick patient care like systemic vascular resistance.
