Burnout How Can We Improve

The risk of burnout in intensive care is high, there is a great need to look after ourselves and each other to enable us to effectively care for our patients and to be part of not only an effective team but also an enjoyable... read more

Burnout How Can We Improve

Burnout in Intensive Care: How Can We Improve?

The risk of burnout in intensive care is high, there is a great need to look after ourselves and each other to enable us to effectively care for our patients and to be part of not only an effective team but also an enjoyable... read more

Burnout in Intensive Care: How Can We Improve?

PICU Outcomes and Outcome Predictions

Interview with Dr. Murray Pollack, the Director of Outcomes Research at the Children's National Medical Center and Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine. Severity of illness research... read more

PICU Outcomes and Outcome Predictions

Using an ETAD for Traction During a Variceal Tamponade

Here is a demonstration of the Scott Weingart, MD method, where the use of a second ETAD is applied for maintaining traction during a variceal tamponade. Presented by Jess Mason, MD.... read more

Using an ETAD for Traction During a Variceal Tamponade

The Case of the Dying Soldiers: Practical Applications of Pharmacology Concepts in Critical Care

Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics are very important when it comes to treating critically ill or critically injured patients. However, when we teach this topic we usually present things using complex equations and explanations... read more

The Case of the Dying Soldiers: Practical Applications of Pharmacology Concepts in Critical Care

ICU Early Mobility – A Concept ICU Bed with Integrated Leg Press

ICU beds that promote muscle recovery not muscle loss. Critical care experts at Johns Hopkins are reporting initial success in boosting recovery and combating muscle wasting among critically ill, mostly bed-bound patients... read more

ICU Early Mobility – A Concept ICU Bed with Integrated Leg Press

Early Mobility in ICU: From Patient to Physician

In the ICU, motion means life. Dr. Paul Wischmeyer, Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery, Duke University gives an overview of the challenges associated with early mobility in ICU, and the importance of implementing protocols.... read more

Early Mobility in ICU: From Patient to Physician

Pediatric Patient and Family Perspective on Pediatric ICU Experience & Survivorship

In this video a 7-year old who spent 662 days in the PICU after a severe burn injury requiring ECMO sits down with her parents to detail their journey with critical illness and recovery during the 6th Annual Johns Hopkins... read more

Pediatric Patient and Family Perspective on Pediatric ICU Experience & Survivorship

Helping Without Harming

You've been resuscitating the patient for hours and finally caught up with volume. You come back on your next shift only to find your colleague has been diuresing them all day. What the heck were they thinking!?! This normal... read more

Helping Without Harming

Choosing the Right Hemodynamic Platform

Choosing the Right Hemodynamic Platform: ABG, SV to PAC – Barbara McLean, MN, RN, CCNS-BC, NP-BC Barbara McLean, MN, RN, CCNS-BC, NP-BC Critical Care Clinical Specialist Critical Care Division Grady Health System... read more

Choosing the Right Hemodynamic Platform

Sepsis: A Threat That Needs a Global Solution

Flavia R. Machado, MD, PhD, gives a plenary talk at the 47th Critical Care Congress, “Sepsis: A Threat That Needs a Global Solution.”... read more

Sepsis: A Threat That Needs a Global Solution

Pandemics Cross Borders: How to Tackle Them From a Global Perspective

Steve A. Webb, MD, gives a plenary talk at the 47th Critical Care Congress, “Pandemics Cross Borders: How to Tackle Them From a Global Perspective.”... read more

Pandemics Cross Borders: How to Tackle Them From a Global Perspective

Get Ready for a Massive Influx of Untriaged Patients

When a mass casualty incident occurs, emergency physicians are quickly thrust onto the front lines. That is precisely what happened on October 1st at Sunrise Emergency Department in Las Vegas the night Stephen Paddock opened... read more

Get Ready for a Massive Influx of Untriaged Patients

What have been the major recent advances in delirium research and care?

Editor-In-Chief-Elect Giuseppe Citerio discusses the recent article focused on the intensive care delirium research agenda in Intensive Care Medicine (ICM). For this evidence-based paper, a multinational and inter-professional... read more

New study finds stress levels skyrocket for family members of ICU patients

New research by Intermountain Healthcare finds family members of patients in ICU have anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress lasting months. It's the first study of its kind to investigate the link between cortisol... read more

New study finds stress levels skyrocket for family members of ICU patients

Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation

Being a doctor typically involves high-intensity, time-pressured working patterns. These can lead to sleep deprivation and fatigue, effecting doctors' health, well-being and performance, their safety and that of their patients.... read more

Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation

Renal Recovery – RRT Modality

Renal recovery - does the choice of renal replacement therapy matter?... read more

Renal Recovery – RRT Modality

Updates on Sepsis from WSC

Fourth session from the World Sepsis Congress Spotlight: Maternal and Neonatal Sepsis - Updates on Sepsis.... read more

Updates on Sepsis from WSC

Maryland emergency doctors find new life-saving use in old machine

A little used machine designed to detox people who overdose on Tylenol and other medications found another use. Doctors at Shock Trauma used it to save a teenage gunshot victim and then a college football player and an amateur... read more

Maryland emergency doctors find new life-saving use in old machine