Lesson 01 is the front door
Every lesson is a numbered node in a series, and nothing assumes you already know the thing two lessons ahead. Each one still stands alone if search drops you in the middle.
A curriculum, not a pile of clips
Your map through acute care.
Hemodynamics, vasoactives, vents, rhythms. Drawn out and taught in order, for nurses in their first few years of acute care.
5 live in Hemodynamics 8 in the series 3 new lessons a month
Bed 4 · 03:14
- MAP
- 52
- low
- HR
- 118
- high
- SVR
- 620
- low
- SvO2
- 58%
- low
Your patient's MAP just dropped to 52. Watch →
Every lesson opens in a moment like this one, then works backwards to why. That is the whole method.
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Start here.
Hemodynamics is the load-bearing series. Everything else cites it, so it went first.
What Keeps Blood Pressure Up?
MAP, perfusion, and why the number on the monitor is not the same thing as blood reaching the kidney.
Hemodynamics · 01 · 8:59Watch →
Cardiac Output
The four levers you actually have: rate, preload, afterload, squeeze. What each one does and what it costs.
Hemodynamics · 02 · 9:09Watch →
SVR & Vascular Tone
Where resistance comes from, why a warm septic patient and a cold cardiogenic one look opposite, and how to tell them apart.
Hemodynamics · 03 · 11:17Watch →
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Watch HEMO 04, Oxygen Delivery, on YouTube (opens in a new tab)
HEMO 04 · Oxygen Delivery
Why a normal saturation can still starve tissue. Hemodynamics · 04 · 12:33
Live
Watch VASO 01, Pressor or Inotrope, on YouTube (opens in a new tab)
VASO 01 · Pressor or Inotrope?
Eight vasoactive drugs on one receptor map. Vasoactives · 01 · 9:26
Series recap
Watch Hemodynamics From the Ground Up, the series recap, on YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Hemodynamics From the Ground Up
MAP, cardiac output, SVR and oxygen delivery in one sitting. Hemodynamics · recap
Live
Watch HEMO 05, Preload and Fluid Responsiveness, on YouTube (opens in a new tab)
HEMO 05 · Preload & Fluid Responsiveness
Will fluid actually help? The passive leg raise, and the test that answers it. Hemodynamics · 05 · 11:26
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ABG 01 · Blood Gases, Finally Clear
In production. The lesson is written and recorded; the visuals are next.
The map
Seventeen series, in the order you'd actually need them.
Foundations first, then core ICU practice, then the specialty depth. You can always see where you are and what is next.
LAYER 0Baseline
- HEMO, Hemodynamics Foundations, 5 of 8 live
- ABG, Blood Gases, Finally Clear, 6 planned
- ECG, Rhythm Interpretation, 10 planned
- LYTE, Electrolytes at the Bedside, 6 planned
- ASSESS, The Acute Assessment, 5 planned
LAYER 1The Bridge
- VASO, Vasoactives & Inotropes, 1 of 10 live
- VENT, The Ventilator, Demystified, 9 planned
- SED, Sedation & Paralytics, 5 planned
- LINE, Lines, Tubes & Monitoring, 6 planned
- RENAL, Renal & CRRT, 6 planned
- BED, Bedside Practicals, 8 planned
LAYER 2The Summit
- CTICU, The Cardiac Surgical Patient, 10 planned
- MCS, Mechanical Circulatory Support, 8 planned
- SWAN, The Swan-Ganz Series, 5 planned
- RRT, Rapid Response, 8 planned
- CASE, Atlas Case Files, ongoing
- CCRN, CCRN Pathway, 6 + index
Built like a course. Free like a channel.
Most nursing content is a pile of one-offs you have to sort yourself. This is one library, in order, with a map you can see.
The color code never changes
Pressure, flow and resistance are visual ideas, so we draw them. Red is arterial, blue is venous, green is normal, amber means be careful. Learn it once and every later diagram teaches faster.
Every number has a source
Values come from current guidelines and primary literature, and each one gets checked against a second source before the lesson is recorded. Where the evidence is genuinely unsettled, the lesson says so instead of picking a tidy number.
A nurse, not a studio.
I'm Sean. I'm an acute care nurse and I float, so I see the same gap from a lot of angles: ICU, ER, PACU, stepdown, rapid response. I precept and I teach sim.
I'm no filmmaker. I'm a nurse who got tired of watching good new grads drown in their first six months because nobody ever drew them the map.
The ICU Orientation Sheet
A short PDF for your first weeks. The stuff nobody writes down because everyone assumes you were told.
- What to chart, and when to call.
- Normal ranges worth memorizing, and the ones that are not.
- How to give report without losing the thread.
- The pumps, lines and alarms you will meet on day one.
It isn't finished yet.
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