Resources

Open-access links

Learn or refresh

Echocardiography

Physiology

Calculators

Pathways

Video

Study aids

Echocardiography resources

TTE For nearly everything: Echopedia Basic and focused ICU Sonography site Basic Critical Care Echo – a beginner’s guide Echobasics site E-learning (e-LfH) echo and ultrasound module Toronto general virtual TTE site Basic perioperative TOE – ASE 2013 More Advanced Echo in the unstable patient Stroke volume determination – short video BSE guidelines page Emergency …

ICM research/guidelines in progress

Guidelines NICE guidelines Sepsis   Studies Diagnosis METPSDS – microRNA analysis VAC – Periitoneal cytokines in open abdomens NOBIS – novel biomarkers MitoSepsis – mitochondrial function Prognosis  PliNOSa – iNOS ADMA and DDAH II DYNAMICS:DNA – naked DNA BNP Lactate Copeptin   Therapeutics Sepsis molecules OASIS – talactoferrin AB103 ALP C1-esterase inhibitor Proglitazone Sirtuin-1 activator …

Learn or refresh

Online articles, modules, presentations and videos (not all free-to-access – use your Athens etc) EMCrit, LITFL, StEmlyn’s, Pulmccm, Resus.me and others have extensive archives that are worth searching separately for specific topics (you can use the special FOAMcc Google search on the home page). Fantastic Youtube channel from Eric Strong – med school level and way beyond …

NHS key moments

Important events in modern UK healthcare history Many recent events have shaped changes in process that may be relevant to the way departments work: 1983—Griffiths report: the introduction of general management enshrines the general management function, removing the consensus management system that is widely regarded as having failed. This leads to a major increase in …

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Open access links

Comprehensive references Lifeinthefastlane  – Mike Cadogan & Chris Nickson teach you emergency medicine, critical care and toxicology. Internet Book of Critical Care – PulmCrit EMCrit encyclopoedia Critical Care Reviews – Rob Mac Sweeney’s complete resource, keeping up-to-the-minute eye on the journals. Medscape critical care page – critical care news, linking to critical appraisal blog. Blogs EMCrit – No-nonsense EM and Critical …

Pathways

Renal Acute kidney injury – NICE Pathways Neuro Subarachnoid haemorrhage – ENLS Respiratory Respiratory fialure – GST pathway

Recent articles and FOAMcc – March 2017

Gershengorn HB, et al. Association of Intensive Care Unit Patient-to-Intensivist Ratios With Hospital Mortality. JAMA Intern Med. 2017 Mar 1;177(3):388–96. Serpa Neto A, et al. Associations between ventilator settings during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for refractory hypoxemia and outcome in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: a pooled individual patient data analysis : Mechanical ventilation during ECMO. …

RSS feeds

NEJM – pulmonary and critical care JAMA – critical care Lancet and critical care (via Pubmed) Chest – critical care Critical Care Medicine AJRCCM ICM – from ESICM  

Science box

Physiology Deranged Physiology is an outstanding resource and may be your best starting point, or heart-lung.org if it’s purely heart or lung! Handwritten tutorials do fantastic short basic science video tutorials on large number of topics . Cardiovascular physiology Heart and lung physiology at heart-lung.org by Jon-Emile Kenny Shock physiology – Guytonian and new thinking pulled together  –  CCM pubmed link Glycocalyx …

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