Precision vent management | Sara Crager

A talk by Sara Crager from TBS23

Intro

A talk by Sara Crager at The Big Sick 2023 conference. Kindly shared with permission.
See the TBS23 landing page for the programme and full set of talks.

Synopsis

On-size-fits-all medicine isn’t the best way to manage a ventilator. This lecture will discuss an iterative hypothesis testing strategy that approaches ventilator management within the bigger picture clinical context of an individual patient.

VIDEO

Until we have final edits ready the video below is straight from the livestream. Expect a few audio issues and other glitches here and there.

SLIDES

Speaker

Title/work

Assistant Professor, Division of Critical Care, Department of Emergency Medicine & Department of Anesthesia, University of California Los Angeles

Bio

Dr. Sara Crager received her undergraduate degree from McGill University and her medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine. She did her Emergency Medicine residency training at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and went on to complete a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the UCLA-David Geffen School of Medicine with a joint appointment in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Department of Anesthesia. She works clinically in the Cardiothoracic and Surgical ICUs at UCLA, and in the Medical ICU at Antelope Valley Medical Center. Dr. Crager co-founded the Stanford Medical Center ED-ICU, and was previously the Medical Director of Early Recognition and Emergency Response for the UCLA-Ronald Regan Medical Center. She spent 10-years working with the NGO Universities Allied for Essential Medicines on improving access to medicines and vaccines, and is currently the Associate Director of the EM:RAP Global Outreach Access+Innovation in Medical Education program that works on improving access to medical education. Dr. Crager is the creator of the EM:RAP ICU Fundamentals series, lectures nationally and internationally, and has won multiple teaching awards.

Links

Email: [email protected]

Other online presence: ICUedu.org

COI declared

None

Mads Astvad

Scandinavian paediatric anaesthetist / intensivist.
PHARM, ED, OR, ICU.
Digital MedEd
Co-founder scanFOAM.org
Co-organiser CphCC & TBS-Zermatt (aka The Big Sick)
Medical lead REPEL (resilience in pediatric emergency life support)
Web dev SSAI.info

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