Critical Care

Searches

• Medline Free Full Text Journals Search - "Critical Care"
  Free, full-text, English language, clinically-focused journal articles indexed in Medline with "Critical Care" as a subject focus.

News

• Critical Connections
  The critical care industry's only news magazine. Keeps the reader updated on late-breaking topics in critical care medicine and healthcare. Includes information on the Society of Critical Care Medicine, membership, chapter activities, and educational programs.
• Science Daily News - Critical Care
  News releases regarding medical research developments from universities, the National Science Foundation, NASA, and other scientific institutions. These announcements present new discoveries in therapeutics and disease management. ScienceDaily Magazine.

Full Text / MultiMedia

• American Journal of Critical Care
  Search access to articles covering current issues in Critical Care . Presented online by the full text article search service Findarticles.com.
• American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  Free full text journal articles made available by the publisher.
• "Critical Care" Powerpoint Lectures
  Powerpoint lectures that focus on this topic. The slideshows are collected from the global Internet by the Google search service.
• Critical Care/Intensive Care Collection of BMJ Articles
  Archived, free, full text articles on "Critical Care/Intensive Care" from the British Medical Journal - the premier medical journal of Great Britain.
• Hospital Physician Critical Care Board Review Manuals
  Up-to-date manuals, developed by leading clinical educators, that assist physicians studying for Board certification or recertification examinations. PDF format. Turner White Communications, Inc. .
• Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  REG Covers developments in pulmonology, immunology, and critical care medicine. Presents selected articles from years 1999-present. Free registration. Thieme Medical Publishers and Medscape.
• The PedsCCM Evidence-Based Journal Club
  Critical reviews of pediatric critical care clinical trial articles. The reviews are written by Pediatric Critical Care fellows as part of the online project "Pediatric Critical Care Medicine".
• PedsCCM File Cabinet
  A multidisciplinary resource of original and distributed educational and practical materials for pediatric critical care practitioners. Presents a collection of relevant web resource links: full text articles, textbooks, abstracts, organizations, meetings, and job opportunities. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine is published by physicians at Washington University.
• Medslides Pulmonary Medicine & Critical Care Powerpoint Slideshows
  A collection of slideshows authored by medical faculty and clinicians.
• Pediatric Critical Care Education from the Society of Critical Care Medicine
  PowerPoint presentations on "Mechanical Ventilation", "ARDS", "Renal Failure", etc. that form a core curriculum in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. These presentations have been authored by members of the Resident Education Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
• Resuscitation Council of the United Kingdom Publications
  Current education and reference materials on the most effective methods of resuscitation: Resuscitation Guidelines, Resuscitation for the Citizen, statements, publications, courses, events, FAQs, and updates.

Journals

• American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  $  REG Papers on the pathophysiology and treatment of respiratory diseases. This journal is considered by "Brandon/Hill" to be an essential resource for the small medical library and one of the best initial journal purchases in the field of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Medline citations: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Search&term=%22Am+J+Respir+Crit+Care+Med%22[jour]&doptcmdl=DocSum. Fee registration for full text. Subscription fee. Free abstracts.
• Critical Care Medicine
  $  REG Papers on the clinical care of life-threatening situations. This journal is recommended by "Brandon/Hill" as the best Critical Care journal for initial purchase and an essential resource for medical libraries. Medline citations: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Search&term=Crit+Care+Med[jour]. Fee registration for full text. Free abstracts.
• Journal of Critical Care
  $  REG Papers on basic and clinical research, coverage of ethical and legal controversies, and important abstracts in the area of critical care. This journal is considered to be a "Brandon Hill" essential resource for medical libraries. Medline citations: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&term="J+Crit+Care". Fee registration for full text. Free abstracts. W.B. Saunders Company .
• American Journal of Critical Care
  $  REG Reports of critical care clinical and basic research studies, case reports, clinical and basic science reviews, reports of new apparatus and techniques, and CE articles with tests. Articles are online from 1998 to the present. Medline citations: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Search&term=%22Am+J+Crit+Care%22[Jour]. Fee registration for full text. Free abstracts. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. .
• Critical Care Forum
  $  REG A peer-reviewed, clinical medical journal that improves the care of critically ill patients by acquiring, discussing, distributing, and promoting evidence-based information relevant to intensivists. Research articles in Critical Care are available free, most other articles require a subscription. Fee registration for full text. Free trial. BioMed Central Ltd.
• Critical Care Journals at Medbioworld
  A comprehensive directory of weblinks for journals in this specialty.
• Critical Care Nurse
  $  REG Articles on the clinical care of ill patients and their families. Includes guidelines, protocols, short reports, and CE articles with tests. Free access to TOCs, abstracts, ans selected full text articles, 1997-present. Medline citations: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Search&term=%22Crit+Care+Nurse%22[Jour]. Fee registration for full text. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses .
• Current Opinion in Critical Care
  $  REG Review articles on clinical practice and research in critical care. Articles are online from 2000 to the present. Pay-per-view is available. Medline citations: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Search&term=%22Curr+Opin+Crit+Care%22[Jour]. Fee registration for full text. Free abstracts. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
• Heart & Lung
  $  REG This journal publishes original, peer-reviewed articles on advances in acute and critical care, neonatal nursing. Access to full text is restricted to subscribers. Medline abstracts: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Search&term=%22Heart+Lung%22[Jour]. Fee registration for full text. Free abstracts.
• Intensive Care Medicine
  $  REG Original research reports, reviews, and educational articles on intensive care isssues. Articles are online from 1996r to the present. Medline citations: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Search&term=%22Intensive+Care+Med%22[Jour]. Fee registration for full text. Free abstracts. Springer Verlag .
• International Journal of Trauma Nursing
  $  REG Peer-reviewed clinical articles, original reports, editorials, and CE articles related to trauma care. Articles are online from 1997 to the present. Pay-per-view access is available.. Sponsored by the Trauma Nursing Coalition. Medline citations: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Search&term=%22J+Trauma+Nurs%22[Jour]. Fee registration for full text. Free abstracts. Mosby.
• Critical Care Journals at Medbioworld
  A comprehensive directory of weblinks for journals in this specialty.

Textbooks

• eMedicine - Critical Care
  Constantly-updated and carefully-edited online multimedia textbooks in various specialties. This web project presents disease synopses with clinical and physical findings, etiology, pathophysiology, symptoms, differential diagnosis, and treatment options. Emedicine offers post-tests for CME credit; a typical fee is $7.50 per credit hour. Emedicine, Inc. Fee registration.
• Royal Adelaide Hospital Intensive Care Unit Manual
  A handbook that offers disease management protocols, step-by-step procedure instructions, and clinical guidelines to support patient management in the intensive care unit at Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia. Updated annually. PDF format.

Major Sites / Home Pages

• Society of Critical Care Medicine
  The largest multidisciplinary, multiprofessional organization dedicated to the practice of critical care medicine with nearly 10,000 worldwide members. SCCM's website presents information about the Society, news, activities, publications, educational events, guidelines, practice parameters, meeting highlights, fellowships, and employment opportunities.
• American Association of Critical Care Nurses
  The world's largest specialty nursing organization with more than 65,000 members representing the United States and 45 other countries. This website includes membership information, news, and announcements.
• PedsCCM Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
  A multidisciplinary educational and practical homepage resource for pediatric critical care. Presents news, case reports, literature reviews, a journal club, clinical pathways, clinical trials, meetings, and information about jobs and fellowships. Section on Critical Care of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Pediatric Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Pediatric Critical Care Colloquium .
• VentWorld.com
  A premier source of ventilator product and supplier information, news, discussion, education, tools, and vent resources for the respiratory and critical care community.
• Canadian Critical Care Society
  Presents background information about the Society, training programs, fellowships, positions wanted and available, meetings, educational calendar, links to related web sites. Includes reports and news from the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, and the Canadian Intensive Care Foundation.
• Emergency Nurses Association
  Presents information about the Association, meetings, programs and services, publications, EN Care fact sheets, news, certification information. Searchable.
• International Trauma Anesthesia & Critical Care Society
  Presents information about the Society and its activities, publications, programs & courses, meetings and related links.
• Critical Care Associations at Medbioworld
  A comprehensive directory of weblinks for associations in this specialty.
• The American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists
  Presents information about the Society, lectures, meetings, fellowships and career corner.
• The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society
  ANZICS's website presents information about the Society, news, meetings, tutorials and CME, policy statements, and interesting links.

Procedures

• Central Line Video
  A step-by-step procedure video. Webmedtechnology.
• Fluids, Electrolytes, and Acid-Base Status in Critical Illness from the Akron PICU Resident Syllabus
  A clincial care review directed to resident physicians. PDF file. Presented by PedsCCM - an online pediatric critcal care medicine resource.
• University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook - Office/Hospital Procedures
  A chapter, from this published handbook of outpatient and inpatient medicine, that covers the diagnosis and treatment of common clinical problems. Authored by Graber, M.D. et al. and published by Mosby Year Book, Inc. in 1997. Presented online by the University of Iowa's Virtual Hospital.
• Ventilator Management
  An article, from a continuously updated etextbook of medicine, that covers modes of volume delivery, methods of ventilatory support, adverse consequences of mechanical ventilation, indications, guidelines for ventilator settings, monitoring during ventilatory support, etc.
• Central Line Placement - Procedure Guide
  A slide show and images below with step-by-step instructions.
• Proficient Procedures Procedure Videos
  $ Educates and informs the practitioner and the patient on how the procedure is performed: lumbar puncture, bone marrow aspiration & biopsy, central venous catheterization, arthocentesis, paracentesis, thoracentesis. $4.95 per online video. Fee transactions.
• The 'St George' Guide to Pulmonary Artery Catheterisation
  Outlines pulmonary artery anatomy and physiology, catheterisation equipment, complications, and techniques. Authored by Dr. Andrew Pybus, Sydney, Australia.

Practice Guidelines / FAQs

• Algorithms of the Medical ICU at Cleveland Clinic
  Algorithms for the diagnosis and management of conditions commonly present in the critically ill. These algorithms were developed with the help of our Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellows at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
• Critical Care Practice Guidelines at Medscape
  REG A directory of weblinks to remote resources and documemts. Free registration.
• Society of Critical Care Medicine Guidelines and Practice Parameters
  A collection of clinical practice guidelines that were published in the "Critical Care Medicine" journal. PDF format.

Cases

• Case Reports in Pediatric Critical Care
  A collection of brief reports of rare, unusual, or difficult cases, with links to additional case reports on the web and in medical literature. PedCCM.
• Stories of Intensive Care
  Includes reports of difficult and interesting cases in critical care. This book was originally called "We Can't Kill Your Mother & Other Stories of Intensive Care-Medical and Ethical Challenges in the ICU". By Lawrence Martin, MD. Lakeside Press.
• Critical Care Medicine Case Studies
  Archives of the CCM-L case studies, by David W.Crippen, MD.

Images, Path./Clinical

• ICU WebImage library
  A collection of X-rays, ECGs, clinical pictures and diagrams covering aspects of Intensive Care.
• Braunwald's Atlas of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
  REG Drawings, radiographs, tables, algorithms, and histopathology are accompanied by brief legends which provide a "quick take" on these disorders. Presents in succinct, graphic format commonly encountered diseases of the respiratory system that internists may expect to encounter with some frequency. Free registration.

Images, X-Ray

• Interpretation of Intensive Care Unit Chest X-Rays
  An image-based teaching module for physicians on the interpretation of ICU CXRs. University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Department of Radiology.

CME

• CMEList Online CME Sites - Critical Care
  A searchable, well-annotated, and constantly-updated directory of web links to online CME opportunities. The directory entries include credit hours, sponsors, cost, lecture format, target audience, and accrediting organization. Bernard Sklar, MD, MS.
• Medscape Critical Care CME Center
  A selection of free, continuously updated CME activities. Offers CME courses, meeting abstracts and reports, treatment updates, post test and evaluation questions, certificate. Searchable. Medscape, Inc.
• Pulmonary and Critical Care Update CME
  CME lessons on pulmonary and critical care topics intended for pulmonary and critical care specialist sponsored by the American College of Chest Physicians.

CE

• American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Premier CE Selections
  Nurses earn continuing education units by choosing from an abundance of AACN's premier continuing education articles. After reading the article, users submit CE applications and test fee electronically, and receive email certificates.

Educational Materials

• Critical Care Teaching Files at McGill
  Teaching Files that familiarize residents in the recognition and management of problems commonly encountered in the intensive care unit. Developed by Velos Christou for the Division of Critical Care Medicine at McGill University. Last Updated on 30/09/2002.
• ICU Web
  Teaching materials covering most common aspects of Intensive Care for Intensive Care and Anaesthesia healthcare professionals and those involved in training. The notes include practical advice on the management of most of the conditions seen in Intensive Care. The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Notes on ICU Nursing
  FAQ files for new RNs coming into an Intensive Care Unit as orientees.
• SMARTIE Online Decision Tools: ICU
  "Smart Applications Repository of Tools for Informed Expert decision" is a collection of a multi-platform medical decision support software. Online calculators range from the simplest score (e.g. Glasgow Coma Scale) to the most elaborate decision support tool for the management of more complex clinical situations (e.g. Acute Abdominal Pain).
• Critical Care Tutorials
  Image-enhanced Critical care topic reviews. This site was developed to help residents during their critical care rotation in the surgical ICU at the University of Pennsylvania.
• ICU and Anaesthesia Website
  Up to date information and teaching material for healthcare professionals and students in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia.
• NurseBob's Critical Care Survival Guide
  Topic reviews on critical care concepts including ethical decision making, arrhythmia recognition, ACLS, cardioversion, pacemakers, critical care medications, dialysis, blood administration, etc.
• Mechanical Ventilation Simulator
  Presents a mathematical model of mechanical ventilation. Illustrates differences between pressure control and volume control ventilation. Div. of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota.
• Akron PICU Resident Syllabus
  Text notes on oxygen therapy, mechanical ventilation, intubation, status asthmaticus, cerebral resuscitation, sedation & analgesia, etc. PDF files. PedsCCM.
• CyberPatient Simulator
  Adult and pediatric, acute and ACLS megacode interactive patient-care simulators designed for clinicians. Triple Star Systems, Inc.
• Emergency Drugs in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
  Quickfinder for drugs used in anesthesiology and critical care with dosage and route. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Texas and Priory Lodge Education Ltd. UK.

Forums

• CCM-L Discussion Group.
  This "International Critical Care Internet Discussion Group" provides an email based interdisciplinary forum for discussion of clinical and research aspects of critical care. Contact: David Crippen, MD. crippen@pitt.edu
• Emergency Medicine Mailing Lists
  An extensive list of discussion groups and mailing lists related to emergency medicine, trauma, and critical care. Includes subscription information. Daniel M. Joyce, M.D., Via Christi Regional Medical Center.