Critical Care Medicine 2017

Critical Care Medicine 2017: Bigger Picture, Better Future

Critical Care Medicine Tutorials

CCMTutorials.com is a comprehensive, interactive website that introduces the reader to the field of critical care medicine. It includes both information in lecture format and clinical scenarios covering a variety of conditions that are commonly encountered in intensive care units. The website has six main subjects (introduction, problem oriented approach, respiratory failure, shock, renal failu...

Critical Care Medicine

Sedative and analgesic medications used for mechanically ventilated (MV) patients in intensive care units (ICU) can promote adverse consequences, including prolonged MV and ICU length of stay, ventilator-acquired pneumonia, and ICU-related delirium. Various strategies to minimize these effects have been examined including sedation-based analgesia and daily interruption of sedation. Physical mob...

Rationing and critical care medicine.

As healthcare expenditures have continued to grow in the United States and elsewhere, the demand for cost-cutting measures has increased. This has led many to wonder if we are, in fact, rationing health care. Critical care is characterized by very high expenditures on a relatively few number of patients, many of whom do not survive, and it is therefore a likely place where rationing could occur...

“Critical Care and Laboratory Medicine”

Care of the critically ill is a team effort where doctors and nurses heavily depend on laboratory measurements. The mortality rate of such patients is between 30 to 40%. The authors are, appropriately, an anaesthetist, a medical microbiologist and a clinical scientist, all of whom are key specialists that would make up the team. Their stated goal is to enable laboratory personnel to understand ...