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Minerva anestesiologica · Sep 2014
ReviewFriday night ventilation a safety starting tool kit for mechanically ventilated patients.
- L Gattinoni, E Carlesso, L Brazzi, M Cressoni, S Rosseau, S Kluge, A Kalenka, M Bachmann, L Toepfer, H Wrigge, F Redaelli, C Vetter, and M Wysocki.
- Dipartimento di Anestesia, Rianimazione ed Emergenza Urgenza, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italia - gattinon@policlinico.mi.it.
- Minerva Anestesiol. 2014 Sep 1; 80 (9): 1046-57.
AbstractWe wish to report here a practical approach to an acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patient as devised by a group of intensivists with different expertise. The referral scenario is an intensive care unit of a Community Hospital with limited technology, where a young doctor, alone, must deal with this complicate syndrome during the night. The knowledge of pulse oximetry at room air and at 100% oxygen allows to estimate the PaO2 and the cause of hypoxemia, shunt vs. VA/Q maldistribution. The ARDS severity (mild [200
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