Popular posts
- The systems-based approach
- A beginner’s guide to the ICU
- Mechanical ventilation I: Basic concepts
- Hail the mighty micropuncture
- Vasopressors V: Inodilators
- SARFO: The syndrome of acute respiratory failure in obesity
- Practicing medicine like an adult
Tutorials
Mechanical ventilation
- Mechanical ventilation I: Basic concepts
- Mechanical ventilation II: The great pressure vs volume debate
- Mechanical ventilation III: Control modes
- Mechanical ventilation IV: Pressure Support
- Mechanical ventilation V: Hybrid modes
- Mechanical ventilation VI: Idiosyncratic modes
Vasopressors
- Vasopressors I: Introduction
- Vasopressors II: Norepinephrine and epinephrine
- Vasopressors III: The pure vasoconstrictors
- Vasopressors IV: Dopamine
- Vasopressors V: Inodilators
- Vasopressors VI: The steroid story
Sedation and analgesia
- Sedation and analgesia I: Principles
- Sedation and analgesia II: Opioids
- Sedation and analgesia III: Non-opioid analgesics
- Sedation and analgesia IV: Typical sedatives
- Sedation and analgesia V: Atypical sedatives
ICU liberation
- Staying woke I: An introduction to ICU liberation
- Staying woke II: Managing sedation in the ICU
- Staying woke III: Early mobility in the ICU
- Staying woke IV: Delirium of critical illness
- Staying woke V: How to liberate your ICU
Palliative care admissions
ICU “Gotchas”
- The ICU Gotchas: Peri-intubation arrest
- The ICU Gotchas: Pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure
- The ICU Gotchas: OverPEEPing
- The ICU Gotchas: Peak pressure limits
Blood transfusion in the ICU
- Blood transfusion in the ICU (part 1): Overview
- Blood transfusion in the ICU (part 2): Cross-matching blood
- Blood transfusion in the ICU (part 3): Transfusion thresholds for PRBCs
- Blood transfusion in the ICU (part 4): Transfusion thresholds for FFP and platelets
Procedures
- Return of the king: Can ultrasound revive the subclavian line?
- 8 advanced tricks for central line placement
- 5 special circumstances for vascular access
- The simultaneous line setup
- The ICU Point-of-View series: Central line placement
- ICU Point-of-View: Radial arterial line placement
- ICU Point-of-View: Midline catheter placement
Standalones
- The course of critical illness
- The ICU trauma resuscitation
- Do’s and don’ts for family interactions
- The art of diuresis
Discussions
- The role and training of the critical care APP
- 10 ways to teach yourself medicine (in the age of the internet)
- Who deserves critical care?
- Notes from the Practical Emergency Airway Management course
- Notes from REANIMATE (part I): Patient selection, code flow, and pump setup
- Notes from REANIMATE (part II): Cannulation
- Notes from REANIMATE (part III): Pump management, ECMO critical care, and REBOA
- Pressure and flow: We’re one, but we’re not the same
- The art of the night shift
- The wait-and-see fallacy
- Lying to ourselves: the clinician’s perspective on end-of-life care
- Survivorship bias in the ICU
- The ten laws of critical care
- How to be whelmed
- Achieving work-work balance
- Get tough: Cultivating clinical resiliency
- Difficult diagnoses in the ICU
Evidence reviews
Clinical questions
- Does cefepime cause encephalopathy and death?
- Should we perform bronchoscopy to augment pulmonary toilet?
Journal club
- Journal club 6/17: ARDSnet
- Journal club 7/12: OXYGEN-ICU and SCCM Pain/Agitation/Delirium Guidelines
- Journal club 8/9: HEAT trial
- Journal club 9/6: Vascular access review
- Journal club 10/4: Rest after SBT and antibiotic duration in VAP