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| Web Pages |
| IntensiveCare.Com |
| Has resources for practicing Evidence-Based Nursing and Medicine. |
| CCRN Net |
| Includes articles, index of resources, chat, photography, and games. |
| NetNurseNotes |
| Offers articles on acid-base balance, interpreting arterial blood gases, and shock. |
| Asthma Management Model System |
| A comprehensive site with information on research, treatment and concerns related to asthma. |
| Nepean Intensive Care |
| Includes some academic work of these ICU nurses, an image library, quiz page and controversy issues. |
| Joint Statement on Resuscitative Interventions |
| Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) has prepared this joint statement in collaboration with other national health related organizations. |
| Critical Caring |
| Contains ICU/ED/EMS links, including Pediatric/NICU, critical care and emergency links. |
| ICUs and Nursing Web Journal |
| Contains critical care and emergency related articles, associations, conferences, drug information, nursing links, online journals, medical and nursing cartoons. |
| Online Pulmonary Textbook |
| Reviews pulmonary anatomy, disease and tumors. |
| The Critical Care Forum |
| Includes commentaries on recent issues, research, clinical guidelines, reports, educational reviews of clinical practice, basic science, and technology, suppliments, links and a schedule of conferences. Available in print and online. |
| The Medical Algorithms Project |
| Contains more than 3,500 algorithms and 44 different chapters covering all major medical topics. Provides computation, formula, survey, or look-up tables, useful in health care with one chapter devoted to critical care. |
| Nurse Bob's MICU/CCU Survival Guide |
| Offers a variety of resources including policies and procedures, synopses of systems and diseases, drugs, and drug calculation formulas. |
| Johns Hopkins: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care |
| Offers education and research related to pulmonary medicine. Site features clinical programs relating to various lung diseases and provides a definition, evaluation, treatment, research, and educational material for each. |
| Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring |
| Describes the procedure for insertion of PA lines, interpretation of waveforms and values and the potential complications. |
| Pulse Oximetry |
| Describes how it works, calibration, and performance considerations. |
| Critical Care Medicine Tutorials |
| Provides information on respiratory failure, shock, renal failure, sepsis and other body systems in a question/answer format. Includes clinical scenarios. |
| Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient. |
| An educational review covering topics such as responses to stress and trauma, tissue oxygenation, cardiovascular system monitoring, respiratory, renal and the central nervous system. |
| Shock |
| Outline of the stages and types of shock. |
| Pulmonary Embolus |
| A multimedia textbook with presentation, diagnosis via scan, CT and pulmonary angiography, with multiple case studies. |
| Critical Thinking in Critical Care |
| Interactive scenarios of bedside decisions, interventions, and prioritizing care. |
| Critical Care Nursing C |
| Outline on hemodynamic monitoring. |
| GASNet |
| Academic content for the Anesthesiology/Intensive Care community. Includes information on subjects such as airway management, pediatrics, hemodynamics, resuscitation, intracranial hypertension, acid-base balance, anesthesia. |
| Anesthesia, Critical Care and Emergency Medicine |
| Includes links to anesthesia principles, practices, journals and departments, as well as critical care and emergency medicine resources. |
| ARDS Support Center |
| Offers a newsletter, education, a message board, and information for patients with Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome, survivors, families, friends, and medical personnel. |
| Acid-Base Balance: Introduction |
| Features the history, physiology and treatment of acid-base disturbances, information on the production of acid, understanding pH, clinical considerations and references. |
| Critical Care Paramedic Protocols |
| Includes prehospital medical protocols and standing orders. Site provided courtesy of Bryan E. Bledsoe, DO, FACEP. |
| Pulmonary and Critical Care Update Online |
| An educational program provided each month by clinicians that offers lessons featuring diagnostic information on current pulmonary and critical care medicine. |
| Gloria's Critical Care Resources |
| Annotated links to related sites such as cardiology, trauma and anesthesiology. |
| Introduction to Pulse Oximetry |
| Describes mechanism, limitations, and myths. |
| The New England Journal of Medicine: Critical Care |
| Offers articles, case reports, and reviews on topics such as shock, sepsis, and acute respiratory distress. [Subscription required to view some articles.] |