Impact on Patient Outcomes of Pharmacist Participation in Multidisciplinary Critical Care Teams

Impact on Patient Outcomes of Pharmacist Participation in Multidisciplinary Critical Care Teams

Including critical care pharmacists in the multidisciplinary ICU team improved patient outcomes including mortality, ICU length of stay in mixed ICUs, and preventable/non-preventable adverse drug events. From the 4,725... read more

Emergency Department Resuscitation of the Critically Ill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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