Critical Care Education

The web links below are provided for your convenience. They are in no particular order.

If you have or know about interesting links relevant to critical care or neurocritical care, please forward them to us to include in our website.

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Acid-base links:

• Acid-Base Tutorial - via Tulane University Department of Anesthesiology
• Acid-Base Physiology via anesthesiaMCG.com
• Capnography
  

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Repiratory links:

• Respiratory Physiology - via JHSM
• Respiratory Physiology (137 pages) - via Adelaide University
• Respiratory System
• Pathophysiology of Respiratory Failure and Use of Mechanical Ventilation - via ATS
• ARDSNet
  

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Hemodynamics:

• Cardiovascular Physiology Concepts
• Pulmonary Artery Catheter Education Project
• OnLine Anaesthesia - Physiology - via RCA
  

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Procedure Links

• Nasogastric tube insertion - via Univ of Ottawa
• Paracentesis - via clinicalcases.org
• Central Line Insertion with Ultrasound - via clinicalcases.org
  

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Professional Societies:

• Society of Critical Care Medicine
• American College of Chest Physicians
• AnesthesiaUK
• Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
• European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
• Introduction to Critical Care (for students) via ICS
• Critical Care Tutorials - via U Penn
• The Cochrane Collaboration - evidence based practice database
• National Neurotrauma Society
• Trauma.org
• Brain Trauma Foundation
• Neurocritical Care Society
• American Thoracic Society - educational material
• American College of Cardiology - guidelines
• World Anaesthesia Society - Educational downloads
• Vanderbilt The Learning Center - Patient Education
• Vanderbilt Web Inservices - VUNetID requried
• Critical Care Cases - via ATS
• ClinicalTrials
• CDC Wonder
  

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Infectious Links:

• Antibiotic Guide - via Johns Hopkins (free registrtion required)
  

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Ultrasound in the ICU:

• Echocardiography in the ICU
• The Learning Center - via Philips Medical (free registration needed)
• Online CME - via GE Healthcare (free registration required)
• E-Learning Academy - via siemens/Acuson (free registration required)
  

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Book, Journals, Podcasts, Presentations:

• Eskind Biomedical Library Critical Care links includes books, journals and other pertinent material
• Eskind Biomedical Library Intensive Care links includes books, journals and other pertinent material
• Public Library of Science (PLOS)
• Virtual Anesthesia Textbook
• Internet Journal of Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine
• Clinical Evidence - via BMJ
• Critical Care (adult) articles - via BMJ
• Medical Rounds - webcasts
• ABC series - via BMJ
• E-Medicine - articles on critical care
• ICU Lectures - via ICUMedicus
• PhotoRounds - via MDChoice
• Critical Care Rounds - via the Canadian Critical Care Society
• HealthWeb
• SuperCourse
• Society of Critical Care Medicine - podcasts
  

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Guidelines, Protocols and Algorithms links: 

•  Guidelines and Standards - Clinical Standards Committee of the ICS
• Scientific Statements and Practice Guidelines for Critical Care - via ATS
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
• Scoring systems for ICU, includes guidelines, protocols, recomendations - via the Société Française d’Anesthésie et de Réanimation
• Infectious Diseases; Standards, Guidelines, Statements - v ia IDSA
• Users' Guide to Evidence-Based Practice - via Centre for Health Evidence
• Bandolier Knowledge and Learning Zone
• Vanderbilt Trauma/Surgical Critical Care - Protocols
• Medical algorithms - MEDAL.org
  

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Neurosurgery:

• Ten Neurosurgical Myths - via LSU
• Neurosurgery Medical Students Curriculum - via CNS
  

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Organ Donation, End-of-Life:

• Vanderbilt Organ Donation Advisory Committee
• United Network for Organ Sharing - UNOS
• Tennessee donor Services - TDS
• Breaking the Bad News
• End-of-Life - via HFA
• End-of-Life Curriculum - via Stanford
• End of Life/Palliative Care Education Resource Center
  

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How does it work? - via BMJ

• MRI
• Oscillatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
• PET
  

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Downloadable software or materials relevant to ICU:

• EKG tutorial (Zip file)- via the Alan E. Lindsay ECG Learning Center, Spencer S. Eccled Health Sciences Library, Univeristy of Utah. Distributed using Creative Commons.
• Physiology freeware - via PERC
• Double Precision Study Planning Calculations
• PS: Power and Sample Size Calculation
• G*3 Power - statistical calculator
  

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Pain:

• OpenCourse on Pain
  

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Nutrition Links:

• Critical Care Nutrition
• Guidelines on Enteral Nutrition in Intensive Care (ESPEN), Clin Nutr 2006
• American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
  

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Imaging Links:

• Introduction to Chest Radiology - via University of Virginia
• Interpretation of the ICU Chest film - via University of Virginia
• Chest Radiology - via Harvard Medical School
• Chest X-Ray Teaching File - via Wayne State
• 22 Must See Diagnoses - via learningradiology.com

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Electrocardiography links:

• Identify the cardiac rhythm
• ECG Library
• EKG Tutorial - via themedstud.com
• Emergency EKG - via emedu.org
  

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Statistics:

• Introduction to Probability - online book
• HyperStat
• StatSoft
• StatNotes
• SuperCourse
• OpenCourse on Biostatistics and here, too
  

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Biothreats links:

• Bioterrorism training - via CDC
• Bioterrorism Resources - via ACP
• Field Management of Chemical Casualties - US Army
• Handbook on the Medical Aspects of Defensive Operations- NATO

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