Tag: training
Training Multidisciplinary Healthcare Workers to Reinforce ICUs in Times of Need
ESICM is to carry out a C19 SPACE programme funded by the European Commission for the training of multidisciplinary healthcare professionals not regularly working in ICUs, to give extra support to ICUs during the COVID-19... read more
ICU Capacity is More About the Clinicians Than The Number of Beds
Each time communities experience surges of COVID-19, concerns arise over the availability of hospital and intensive care unit beds in affected regions. To monitor ICU capacity, several states have begun to track and publicly... read more
A Guide to Performance Evaluation for the Intensivist
Currently, there is no standard process to develop Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation processes in critical care medicine. Departments and institutions can tailor metrics... read more
Translational simulation for rapid transformation of health services, using the example of the COVID-19 pandemic preparation
Healthcare simulation has significant potential for helping health services to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Rapid changes to care pathways and processes needed for protection of staff and patients may be facilitated by... read more
Designing, Implementing, and Enhancing a Rapid Response System
Written by leaders in the field, Designing, Implementing, and Enhancing a Rapid Response System, contains the tools needed to plan, develop, enhance, and customize a rapid response system (RRS) in your hospital. This... read more
Preparing ICUs for COVID-19: an Australian Experience
In this article, we describe the response from our intensive care unit (ICU) within a large tertiary private metropolitan Australian hospital. We hope this information may be useful to other ICUs in Australia, for any second... read more
Provider Burnout and Fatigue During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in an overall surge in new cases of depression and anxiety and an exacerbation of existing mental health issues, with a particular emotional and physical... read more
Top 5 COVID-19 Online Training Courses For Nurses
Nurses all around the country are being cross-trained to work in higher acuity or critical care patient areas as fast as possible to maximize efforts against COVID-19. But as nurses step out of their comfort zones, there... read more
Introduction and Dressing for COVID-19
Internal Medicine Rapid Refreshers is a series of concise information-packed videos refreshing your knowledge on key medical issues that general practitioners may encounter in their daily practice. The first episode introduces... read more
What Happens If Health-Care Workers Stop Showing Up?
The United States needs its health-care workers to see it through this crisis. But there are no replacements on the shelf. They can't be built, trained, or repurposed from other jobs. Unless the country does dramatically... read more
Addressing Global Infectious Diseases With Dual Infectious Diseases
The discipline of infectious diseases is ever-growing, with a spectrum of practice pathways adopted by ID physicians, including sub-specialized fields of expertise in public health, hospital epidemiology, antimicrobial stewardship,... read more
1 Million Ventilators Project
We need to develop a strategic reserve of 1,000,000+ emergency ventilators ASAP. These don't need to be fancy medical ventilators, they just need to work. In a pandemic, the limited existing ventilator supply and stockpile... read more
Models of Peer Support to Remediate Post-Intensive Care Syndrome
A number of different models of peer support are currently being developed to help patients and families recover and grow in the post-critical care setting. Via an iterative process of in-person and email/conference calls,... read more
Humanizing the ICU Experience with Enhanced Communication
Decisions to limit therapy (DTLT) are routine for ICU physicians. Although breaking bad news is one of the most difficult tasks clinicians face, ongoing communication is even more crucial as families (not necessary following... read more
Safe Transfer of the Brain-injured Patient
The document considers recent developments in the management of multiply-injured patients and those with acute ischaemic stroke. Whilst many of the principles of safe transfer are common to all seriously ill patients,... read more
Clinical Practice Manual for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Clinical Practice Manual for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, by Judd W. Landsberg, MD, is a unique point-of-care manual that provides essential information on managing inpatients and outpatients with common, serious... read more
Predicting Outcome in Patients with Moderate to Severe TBI Using Electroencephalography
Multifactorial Random Forest models using quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG) features, clinical data, and radiological findings have potential to predict neurological outcome in patients with moderate to severe traumatic... read more
