Critical Care

See also:

• Health: Medicine: Medical Specialties: Critical Care  (13)
• Health: Medicine: Medical Specialties: Pulmonary Medicine  (107)
• Health: Medicine: Surgery: Trauma  (13)

Acid-Base Balance: Introduction - - Features the history, physiology and treatment of acid-base disturbances, information on the production of acid, understanding pH, clinical considerations and references.

Anesthesia, Critical Care and Emergency Medicine - - Includes links to anesthesia principles, practices, journals and departments, as well as critical care and emergency medicine resources.

ARDS Support Center - - Offers a newsletter, education, a message board, and information for patients with Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome, survivors, families, friends, and medical personnel.

Asthma Management Model System - - A comprehensive site with information on research, treatment and concerns related to asthma.

CCRN Net - - Includes articles, index of resources, chat, photography, and games.

The Critical Care Forum - - Includes commentaries on recent issues, research, clinical guidelines, reports, educational reviews of clinical practice, basic science, and technology, suppliments, links and a schedule of conferences. Available in print and online.

Critical Care Medicine Tutorials - - Provides information on respiratory failure, shock, renal failure, sepsis and other body systems in a question/answer format. Includes clinical scenarios.

Critical Care Paramedic Protocols - - Includes prehospital medical protocols and standing orders. Site provided courtesy of Bryan E. Bledsoe, DO, FACEP.

GASNet - - Academic content for the Anesthesiology/Intensive Care community. Includes information on subjects such as airway management, pediatrics, hemodynamics, resuscitation, intracranial hypertension, acid-base balance, anesthesia.

ICUs and Nursing Web Journal - - Contains critical care and emergency related articles, associations, conferences, drug information, nursing links, online journals, medical and nursing cartoons.

IntensiveCare.Com - - Has resources for practicing Evidence-Based Nursing and Medicine.

Introduction to Pulse Oximetry - - Describes mechanism, limitations, and myths.

Johns Hopkins: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care - - Offers education and research related to pulmonary medicine. Site features clinical programs relating to various lung diseases and provides a definition, evaluation, treatment, research, and educational material for each.

Joint Statement on Resuscitative Interventions - - Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) has prepared this joint statement in collaboration with other national health related organizations. [PDF.

The Medical Algorithms Project - - Contains more than 3,500 algorithms and 44 different chapters covering all major medical topics. Provides computation, formula, survey, or look-up tables, useful in health care with one chapter devoted to critical care.

Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient. - - An educational review covering topics such as responses to stress and trauma, tissue oxygenation, cardiovascular system monitoring, respiratory, renal and the central nervous system.

Nepean Intensive Care - - Includes some academic work of these ICU nurses, an image library, quiz page and controversy issues.

The New England Journal of Medicine: Critical Care - - Offers articles, case reports, and reviews on topics such as shock, sepsis, and acute respiratory distress. [Subscription required to view some articles..

Nurse Bob's MICU/CCU Survival Guide - - Offers a variety of resources including policies and procedures, synopses of systems and diseases, drugs, and drug calculation formulas.

Online Pulmonary Textbook - - Reviews pulmonary anatomy, disease and tumors.

Pulmonary and Critical Care Update Online - - An educational program provided each month by clinicians that offers lessons featuring diagnostic information on current pulmonary and critical care medicine.

Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring - - Describes the procedure for insertion of PA lines, interpretation of waveforms and values and the potential complications.

Pulmonary Embolus - - A multimedia textbook with presentation, diagnosis via scan, CT and pulmonary angiography, with multiple case studies.

Pulse Oximetry - - Describes how it works, calibration, and performance considerations.