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Risk Calculators
Drug Dosing Calculators
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Critical Care Medicine: The Essentials and More
Publication Date: 2019 -
Marino's the ICU Book, 5e
Call Number: WB 108 M18 2025 -
Interventional Critical Care
The goal of the first edition is to fill a knowledge gap of the advanced practice provider (APP) specifically regarding the skills and understanding of critical care procedures in response to the rapidly expanding participation of APPs in critical care.
Sepsis
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Critical Care Reviewsfree collection of critical care studies and guidelines; includes summaries and links to full-text (where available)
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The Bottom Line" a compendium of all the landmark papers which are shaping the way we manage our critically ill patients. Each paper has been summarised and critiqued using a standard template and ends with a 'bottom line' paragraph to allow a quick reminder of the key point"
Recent Trials in Critical Care
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Guidelines Search on Critical Care Reviewsmay be more European in focus
ECMO
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Extracorporeal Life Support: ELSO red book, 5e
Call Number: WG 168.5 B7 20176th edition coming soon
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ELSO red book 6th ed MultimediaAvailable now, ahead of new edition
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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: An Interdisciplinary Problem-Based Learning Approach
Call Number: ebook 2022 -
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Adults, 2e
Call Number: ebook 2022
Sepsis
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SEPSIS-2 criteria
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MEWSModified Early Warning Score
C.diff.
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IDSA/SHEA 2018metronidazole's out. PO vanco first line
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Interesting study from JAMA Surgery 2018finding that undetectable eosinophil count associated with WORSE outcome including in-hospital mortality with OR 2.01-2.26
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ATLAS scorepredicts response to therapy
Fungal Infections
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ACP Hospitalist SummaryLink requires sign in to ACP
Malaria
Pneumonia
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IDSA/ATA CAP 2019criteria for severe vs nonsevere CAP. | HCAP concept still dead | start Abx regardless of procalcitonin | sputum culture all inpatient empirically treated for MRSA/Pseudomonas | Aspiration pneumonia - no need to add gut anaerobic coverage unless suspect lung abscess or empyema; coverage of oral anaerobes suffice -i.e. most beta-lactams | no steroids for nonsevere CAP, consider in refractory septic shock
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IDSA HAP VAP 20167 day treatment for HAP or VAP, regardless of bug | less emphasis on double coverage for Pseudomonas | VAP - get semi-quantitative endotracheal aspirate preferred over more invasive BAL
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Procalcitonin Guide
Influenza
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IDSA Influenza 2019low threshold to treat | low threshold to test | don't rely on rapid screening | critically ill patients need upper and lower respiratory track samples | Oseltamivir preferred; IV Peramivir alternative
Parkinson's Disease in the hospital
Stroke / TIA
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ABCD score for TIAEstimates the risk of stroke after a suspected transient ischemic attack (TIA)