Intensive Care (Part 1)

Overview:
Each year, about four million people in the United States are admitted to intensive care units with complex medical problems that require the highest level of care. This program covers medical advances in critical care treatment that are enabling people to survive serious health challenges. Topics include including the latest thinking about ventilator support as well treatment for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.


Part One:
What is intensive care?
Conditions that may require critical care
Features of a Medical Intensive Care Unit
Role of ventilators
New thinking on ventilator use and oxygen
Recovery period following intensive care

Part Two:
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
ARDS causes
ARDS diagnosis
ARDS treatments

Dr. Giora Netzer, a specialist in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Netzer is also an assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.


Links:

Intensive Care (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=368YIm-fw7M

Intensive Care (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2enNosCm5Yg

Maryland Pulmonary and Critical Care
http://www.umm.edu/pulmonary/

Dr. Giora Netzer
http://www.umm.edu/video_podcasts/mht/intensive_care_netzer.htm

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Intensive
• Care
• ventilator
• use
• Acute
• Respiratory
• Distress
• Syndrome
• ARDS
• ummc
• mht

[LostJedi26]

Haha. Lungs into the air. That was awesome. And he didn't even miss a beat. Probably died laughing later.

Very explanatory interview. Helped me understand some things that hadn't been explained to me before.

[Liaram66]

"A ventilator is basically a machine that brings lungs into the air"...That was cute! LOL Wish we could see some video cuts from an ICU while they were talking...The whole video would be more interesting then.