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Maryland Health Today

Intensive Care

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.

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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

Guest:
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.

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