Society Guidelines

• CHEST Guidelines. Topics addressed include: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), venous thromboembolism (VTE), and liberation from mechanical ventilation.

  • Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease: Executive Summary (2021)

• SCCM Guidelines. Topics addressed include: Surviving Sepsis, management of pain/ agitation/ delirium, nutrition, critical-illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency, etc.

• Infectious Disease Society of America.

• Critical Care Nutrition. Nutrition guidelines and bedside tools (i.e., Nutric score).

• European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN).

References

• ICU One Pager. "Critical care education one page at a time. Simple, free, & open source." High-yield clinical topics condensed into single-page reference cards. Other topics addressed in more detail include point of care ultrasound (POCUS) and COVID.

• The Bottom Line. High-yield journal article summaries focused on the diagnosis and management of critically ill patients.

• Critical Care Reviews Newsletter. Weekly update on the most up-to-date literature. Register to receive the email weekly.

• Life in the Fast Lane [LIFTL]. ICU providers provide educational resources for EM and critical care, including EKG interpretation and the Critical Care Compendium.

• REBEL EM. Journal reviews, tutorials, and other educational tools. Focus is emergency medicine, but plenty of cross-over with critical care.

• Stanford Critical Care Educational Resources. Free education resources hosted by Stanford Medical School.

• University of Maryland- Critical Care Project.

• Critical Care Now.

• Deranged Physiology.

• EM-Crit Project. Parent website of the Internet Book of Critical Care and PulmCrit.

  • The Internet Book of Critical Care (IBCC)

  • PulmCrit- blog entries on practical ICU topics.

• Venous thromboembolism and anticoagulation management

  • Anticoagulation Provider Toolkit

  • Anticoagulation Desktop Reference

  • Anticoagulation in Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation

  • Anticoagulation in Venous Thromboembolism

  • DOAC Bleeding Management

  • Anticoagulation in Pediatric Venous Thromboembolism

  • Periprocedural Management (DOAC)

  • Periprocedural Management (Warfarin)

• Push-dose vasopressors

  • Push Dose Pressors: Your Quick & Dirty Guide

  • emDOCs: Push-Dose Vasopressors: An Update for 2019

  • Scott Weingart: Push-dose pressors for immediate blood pressure control

Tutorials

• Edwards Science Clinical Education. Free access to clinical resources including quick references for hemodynamic monitoring and oxygenation assessment of the critically ill.

  • Quick Guide to Cardiopulmonary Care.

  • Hemodynamic Optimization.

  • Perioperative Goal-Directed Therapy.

  • ScVO2 Monitoring.

• Thromboelastography. Diagrams of TEG and ROTEM, explanation of methods and variables.