Video Dr. Rezai discusses why bronchoscopy is performed in the ICU Published: July 21, 2021 Play Pause Volume Quality 1080P 720P 576P Fullscreen Captions Transcript Chapters Slides Dr. Rezai discusses why bronchoscopy is performed in the ICU Overview Dr. Rezai discusses why bronchoscopy is performed in the ICU multiple reasons why uh physicians and particularly critical care physicians typically in the ice you need to use um bronchoscopy. Uh for example, if a patient has a lot of mucus, um we we go in, we do bronchoscopy to take out the mucus and maybe send it for a sample to see if there's a pneumonia and what particular bug. And maybe sometimes we just do a bronchoscopy just to obtain a better culture. Um You know, we're suspecting pneumonia and we just need a good sample to see what type of maybe so we can give appropriate antibiotic usage for those patients. Um and other situations, you know, sometimes the patient needs to be intubated and we may use a disposable bronchoscopy to help us um achieve a successful information. Created by Presenters Fariborz Rezai, MD, FCCP Surgeon Dr. Rezai is currently the Director of the Adult Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey. He was instrumental in creating the "intensivist driven" ICU, where daily rounds are multidisciplinary, ...