Sepsis – Explained in 3 Minutes

Sepsis – Explained in 3 Minutes

Sepsis is an emergency, striking about 30 million people every year, killing 6 to 9 million of them. Learn what sepsis is, and how to identify and treat it in this 3-min video. Please share with your loved ones - it could... read more

Raising Sepsis Awareness

Raising Sepsis Awareness

Most recent parody created by ILAS (Brazil) aimed at health professionals with English subtitles. Share this video with your multidisciplinary teams because together we can overcome sepsis.... read more

Avoiding Intubation

Avoiding Intubation

Review the basic principles and physiology of Non-Invasive Ventilation and High-Flow Oxygen Systems. Critical Care Summit talk by William Bender, MD, Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Emory University School... read more

Improving Long-Term Outcomes Research for ARF

Improving Long-Term Outcomes Research for ARF

Alison Turnbull, DVM, MPH, PhD discusses the heterogeneity in outcome measures in our field and the need for a Core Outcome Measurement Set (COMS) to standardize reporting of important outcomes. As part of the consensus process,... read more

Where is the Love in Critical Care?

If we look at any critical care system there are several components that are required to drive quality, safety and ultimately success. The greatest driver of success is ultimately the staff. Staff who feel safe, valued and... read more

Resuscitating Sepsis – How I do it after Albios

Resuscitating Sepsis – How I do it after Albios

Watch "Resuscitating Sepsis - How I do it after Albios" by Luciano Gattinoni.... read more

Patient Safety Concerns Over New 24-hour Shift Rule for First-year Doctors

Patient Safety Concerns Over New 24-hour Shift Rule for First-year Doctors

On Saturday, 30,000 first-year medical residents begin work and new rules taking effect that same day could add eight or more hours to their shifts. Doctors fresh out of medical school will be able to work for up to 24 hours... read more

Video Laryngoscopy for Endotracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults

Video Laryngoscopy for Endotracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults

Endotracheal intubation (EI) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients is associated with an increased risk of life-threatening adverse events due to unstable conditions, rapid deterioration, limited preparation time, and variability... read more

Addressing Sepsis – Video Recap of the WHA Side Event on Sepsis

Addressing Sepsis – Video Recap of the WHA Side Event on Sepsis

On the occasion of the World Health Assembly passing a resolution on sepsis, the Global Sepsis Alliance, IAPO, and the German Federal Ministry of Health have hosted the "WHA Side Event on Sepsis" in Geneva on May... read more

How informatics can help your hospital prevent infections

How informatics can help your hospital prevent infections

Hospitalists have a powerful tool to help them fight outbreaks of Clostridium difficile and other infectious agents: electronic health record data. Sara Murray, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of... read more

Malbrain Fluid Overload

Malbrain Fluid Overload

Fluid overload is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. In this presentations an overview is given of the different definitions followed by a step-by-step description of the deleterious effects of fluid overload... read more

Hospitalists can help improve antibiotic stewardship

Hospitalists can help improve antibiotic stewardship

Hospitalists can, and should, help curb unnecessary antibiotic use. Nearly three-quarters of patients who have been diagnosed with community acquired pneumonia are receiving antibiotics for longer periods than necessary,... read more

Happy 100th Anniversary to the RSNA

Happy 100th Anniversary to the RSNA

This week the Radiological Society of North America, a.k.a. RSNA, is holding its annual meeting in Chicago. RSNA is an international society of radiologists, medical physicists and other medical professionals with more than... read more

Jimmy Kimmel Reveals Details of His Son’s Birth & Heart Disease

Jimmy Kimmel Reveals Details of His Son’s Birth & Heart Disease

Jimmy and his wife Molly welcomed their second child together, William "Billy" Kimmel. At three days old, Billy had successful open heart surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and is now home with his family.... read more