APT: Acute Respiratory Failure
Your patient is short of breath, tripoding on the side of the bed, you’re watching the O2 sat drop. What do you do? This week we hope to help give you additional tools to recognize when someone is in Acute Respiratory Failure. In preparation the required reading is about mechanical ventilation and an outline on acute respiratory failure. If there is time you should read the review article from NEJM on ARDS.