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Case 15 — After VA cannulation

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Case 15 — After VA cannulation

Handover

VA, shortly after initiation. CVP climbing, flow falling, pulse pressure narrow. Fluids help for a minute and then don’t. Pven gets more negative as you add RPM.

Uncorrected hypoxemia, shock, or a dead circuit progresses to pre-arrest, then a code.

Goals

  • · Echo obtained
  • · MAP improved after recognition