The Failure of DO 2– Did What I Do to the Patient Just Work?
By now, I wouldn’t be surprised if you were asking yourself, “I thought this was a book about ECMO?” Why are we talking about hemoglobin dissociation, shock recognition, shunt physiology,…
Indications and Selection of Patients for ECMO
In this chapter, we tackle one of the most sobering and important topics related to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) – selection of patients for ECMO. In doing so, we are…
Introduction to ECMO Fundamentals
Let’s start our discussion of the fundamentals of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) by returning to our graph. We have spent the last few chapters developing and unpacking the simple but…
Oxygen Delivery and Consumption
Imagine that you walk into a typical intensive care unit (ICU). You look around and note what you see: in one room a 78-year-old man with urosepsis and septic shock,…
Recognition of Shock
Now we are going to bring our discussion of shock to the next level and start to explore some patterns that can help us with recognition of shock. Remember, if…
Lateral sacroiliac joint fusion
Introduction Sacroiliac joint (SIJ) disease has been increasingly recognized as a common contributor to many cases of lower back pain (LBP) and radiculopathy, with a prevalence estimated at between 13%…
Surgical instruments
Introduction Surgical instruments are the tools of the trade. Just like any in any other trade or manual job, there are a number of surgical instruments that have been designed…
Sacroiliac joint posterior fusion
Introduction The sacroiliac joint (SIJ) functions in transferring the load between the spine and the lower extremities and acts as a shock absorber for the spine. The structure is bordered…
