Tag: education
Emergency Department Resuscitation of the Critically Ill
A crash course in Critical Care! Stabilize, treat, and save your sickest patients in the ed or the field – with ACEP's ultimate resuscitation guide. packed with succinct evidence-based chapters written by the nation's foremost... read more
12 Great Summer Reads for Intensivists
From fascinating medical memoirs to horrifying accounts of medical mistreatment in the past two centuries, these books will make you aware of how far medicine has come and how far it has yet to go. Surgeries without anesthesia,... read more
Outcome Assessment in Advanced Practice Nursing
As the role of the nurse continues to expand in today's healthcare environment, APRNs and DNPs are more frequently tasked with quantifying, evaluating, and improving their individual care processes, as well as demonstrating... read more
Hemodynamic Monitoring – The Why, When, Which and What
Although the need to properly assess and monitor the hemodynamic status of a critically ill patient appears self-evident, the plethora of information in the published literature over the past two decades has resulted in complexity... read more
Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
Abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) is defined by sustained intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) > 20 mm Hg with associated organ injury. The condition was first described in 1863, but not significantly discussed until the 1990s.... read more
Management of Cardiogenic Shock
Cardiogenic shock (CS) remains the most common cause of death in patients with acute myocardial infarction although mortality could be reduced from formerly ∼80% to 40–50%. In addition to percutaneous coronary intervention... read more
Podcast Use and Preferred Content Among Residents
This study is the first to report podcast content needs and preferred formats among specialty trainees. Anesthesia residents appear to have well defined podcast content preferences. In addition, senior and junior anesthesia... read more
Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses in Critical Care Research
This webinar provides an overview of the key steps involved in systematic reviews and meta-analysis for those interested in using these approaches in their own research. As the volume of published research in critical... read more
Venous Doppler and Veno-Cardiac Coupling
Concepts have been clanging around my head since I participated in Philippe Rola's sedulous Hospitalist & Resuscitationist Conference in Montreal. Initially, the abstractions of ventriculo-arterial coupling, Guytonian physiology... read more
Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues―from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio―and a celebration of the heroes who fought them. In 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and... read more
The Hospitalist Role in Treating Opioid Use Disorder
Opioid use disorder, like many of the other conditions we see, is a chronic relapsing remitting medical disease and a risk factor for premature mortality. When a patient with diabetes is admitted with cellulitis, we might... read more
Developmentally Appropriate Coping in the ICU
In this video, Child Life Specialist at Boston Children's Hospital, Kate Huyler, outlines the role of a child life specialist, reviews coping strategies for patients in the ICU, including the use of playtime and behavioral... read more
Manual of Traumatic Brain Injury: Assessment and Management
Now completely revised and updated, Manual of Traumatic Brain Injury: Assessment and Management, Second Edition is a comprehensive evidence-based guide to brain injury diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, delivered in a succinct... read more
Prediction and Management of Severe Acute Pancreatitis
This volume provides a comprehensive summary of the field, with expert recommendations on prediction and management. It details the recent consensus guidelines (2012) updating the definition of pancreatitis and its complications.... read more
Huddling for High Reliability and Situation Awareness
This study objectives were to explore hospital administrator and frontline staff perspectives on the benefits and challenges of implementing a tiered huddle system; and propose a model based on our findings depicting the... read more
Critical Care Study Guide: Text and Review
Critical care medicine is a dynamic and exciting arena where complex pathophysiologic states require extensive knowledge and up-to-date clinical information. An extensive knowledge of basic pathophysiology, as well as awareness... read more
Using Propensity Scoring Analyses in Critical Care Research
Observational studies are a common and important aspect of critical care research. A key challenge in the design of observational studies is the control of confounding. Confounding arises when the groups being compared in... read more
Impact of Weekly Case-based Tele-education on Quality of Care in a Limited Resource Medical ICU
Limited critical care subspecialty training and experience is available in many low- and middle-income countries, creating barriers to the delivery of evidence-based critical care. We hypothesized that a structured tele-education... read more
Pediatric Hypertension and Hypertensive Emergencies: Recognition and Management in the Emergency Department
Pediatric hypertension generally presents to the ED in 2 forms: (1) the otherwise asymptomatic child with elevated blood pressure, and (2) the child with a true hypertensive emergency. This issue provides recommendations... read more
Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery: Clinical Questions and Answers
A unique question-and-answer book for surgical residents and trainees that covers all surgical aspects of critical care and acute or emergency medicine. This is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind question-and-answer text for... read more
Metabolic Acidosis: A Guide to Clinical Assessment and Management
This timely volume provides an overview to the causes, effects on systems and clinical approaches of metabolic acidosis. Beginning with a basic understanding of the physiology, pathophysiology and development of this disease,... read more
