The Really Injured Lungs: Management of Acute Respiratory Failure in the Injured Patient
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The Society of Critical Care Medicine's Critical Care Congress features internationally renowned faculty and content sessions highlighting the most up-to-date, evidence-based developments in critical care medicine. This is a presentation from the 2021 Critical Care Congress held virtually from January 31-February 12, 2021.
Learning Objectives
- Apply advanced ventilatory modes to the trauma and burn injury patient with severe respiratory failure
- Determine when to use prone positioning and/or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in the patient with severe lung injury
- Discover optimal techniques and challenges of placing patients in the prone position, including those on continuous renal replacement therapy and ECMO
- Recognize which patients with severe lung injury may participate in physical therapy and discuss the benefits of physical therapy
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