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Acid-Base Balance: Introduction Description: Features the history, physiology and treatment of acid-base disturbances, information on the production of acid, understanding pH, clinical considerations and references. (acid-base.com) |
| Anesthesia, Critical Care and Emergency Medicine Description: Includes links to anesthesia principles, practices, journals and departments, as well as critical care and emergency medicine resources. (invivo.net) |
| ARDS Support Center Description: Offers a newsletter, education, a message board, and information for patients with Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome, survivors, families, friends, and medical personnel. (ards.org) |
| Asthma Management Model System Description: A comprehensive site with information on research, treatment and concerns related to asthma. (nhlbisupport.com) |
| CCRN Net Description: Includes articles, index of resources, chat, photography, and games. (ccrnnet.com) |
| Critical Care Medicine Tutorials Description: Provides information on respiratory failure, shock, renal failure, sepsis and other body systems in a question/answer format. Includes clinical scenarios. (ccmtutorials.com) |
| Critical Care Paramedic Protocols Description: Includes prehospital medical protocols and standing orders. Site provided courtesy of Bryan E. Bledsoe, DO, FACEP. (ssgfx.com) |
| GASNet Description: 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. (gasnet.org) |
| Gloria's Critical Care Resources Description: Annotated links to related sites such as cardiology, trauma and anesthesiology. (members.nuvox.net) |
| ICUs and Nursing Web Journal Description: Contains critical care and emergency related articles, associations, conferences, drug information, nursing links, online journals, medical and nursing cartoons. (nursing.gr) |
| IntensiveCare.Com Description: Has resources for practicing Evidence-Based Nursing and Medicine. (intensivecare.com) |
| Introduction to Pulse Oximetry Description: Describes mechanism, limitations, and myths. (pulseox.info) |
| Johns Hopkins: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Description: 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. (hopkins-lungs.org) |
| Joint Statement on Resuscitative Interventions Description: Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) has prepared this joint statement in collaboration with other national health related organizations. [PDF] (cna-nurses.ca) |
| Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient. Description: An educational review covering topics such as responses to stress and trauma, tissue oxygenation, cardiovascular system monitoring, respiratory, renal and the central nervous system. (rcsed.ac.uk) |
| Nepean Intensive Care Description: Includes some academic work of these ICU nurses, an image library, quiz page and controversy issues. (nepeanicu.org) |
| Nurse Bob's MICU/CCU Survival Guide Description: Offers a variety of resources including policies and procedures, synopses of systems and diseases, drugs, and drug calculation formulas. (rnbob.tripod.com) |
| Online Pulmonary Textbook Description: Reviews pulmonary anatomy, disease and tumors. (vh.org) |
| Pulmonary and Critical Care Update Online Description: An educational program provided each month by clinicians that offers lessons featuring diagnostic information on current pulmonary and critical care medicine. (chestnet.org) |
| Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring Description: Describes the procedure for insertion of PA lines, interpretation of waveforms and values and the potential complications. (rnbob.tripod.com) |
| Pulmonary Embolus Description: A multimedia textbook with presentation, diagnosis via scan, CT and pulmonary angiography, with multiple case studies. (vh.org) |
| Pulse Oximetry Description: Describes how it works, calibration, and performance considerations. (nda.ox.ac.uk) |
| The Critical Care Forum Description: 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. (ccforum.com) |
| The Medical Algorithms Project Description: 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. (medal.org) |
| The New England Journal of Medicine: Critical Care Description: Offers articles, case reports, and reviews on topics such as shock, sepsis, and acute respiratory distress. [Subscription required to view some articles.] (content.nejm.org) |
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