Resources for new starters

Key Topics (LITFL and IBCC cover the whole specialty in a succinct an up-to-date way but some of these are good places to start)

• Airway problem

  • Difficult Airway Society guidelines

  • (particularly good for the non-anaesthetist, and me) – the VORTEX free ebook

• Acute fluid guidance – Fluid resuscitation in a nutshell

• Doing less harm – FAST HUG explanation

• Mechanical ventilation – SICS step-by-step practical guide , MDS manuals summary

• Respiratory failure algorithm – GSTT severe respiratory failure protocol

• Tracheostomy information and algorithms – tracheostomy.org.uk

• Sedation summary – Excellent NEJM review

• Inotropes and vasopressors in shock – a good BJHM summary

• Feeding – no-nonsense direction – ‘The truth about feeding in ICU’,or the more up-to-date deeper dive at Biomed

• Sick Child – Nice APLS summary