Critical Care Interest Group

                                                                                                                             

President – Janalee Gordon

Co-President – David Allen

Vice President – Phillip K. Stott

Treasurer/Secretary – Ryan Craner

Advisor – Robert I. Simpson MD
 
 

Medical ICU

Surgical ICU

Neuro ICU

Pediatric ICU Neonatal ICU

Burn ICU Shock/Trauma

Cardiac Care Unit

 
 

Text Box: The purpose of the CCIG is to serve as a resource of information and provide education about patients and the medical specialists involved in the care of these critically ill (high-acuity) patients. Physicians that care for patients in the Critical Care setting include: Intensivists (adult and pediatric); Pulmonologists; Anesthesiologists; Neonatologists (Newborn ICU); Surgical Specialists (General/Trauma, Vascular, Cardiothoracic, Transplant, etc.); Neurologists (Neuro ICU); and Emergency Room Physicians. Text Box:

Text Box: Critical Care Medicine/Intensive Care Medicine is a branch of medicine concerned with the provision of life support in critically ill patients. Patients requiring intensive care include those after major surgery, with severe head trauma, life-threatening acute illness, respiratory insufficiency, coma, hemodynamic insufficiency, severe fluid imbalance, or with the failure of one or more major organ system.                                                                                                                                                                                        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Text Box: Multiple IV drips, medications, Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN), Mechanical ventilators, high-frequency oscillatory ventilators, heart/lung bypass, intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABP), defibrillation, dialysis, feeding tubes, central lines, arterial lines, chest-tubes, dials, wires, tubes, beeps, alarms, buzzers, flashing lights, pressure hoses, bubbling canisters We have all the ’s and ’s!

Critical Care Links

 

http://www.intensivecare.com/CritCareWebsites.html

Links to Critical Care (Adult, Pediatric, & Neonatal)

 

http://www.thoracic.org/index.html

The American Thoracic Society

 

http://www.trauma.org/traumabank.html

Trauma Bank Info Repository; cases, evaluation, resuscitation, critical care

 

http://www.trauma.org/resus/moulage/moulage.html

Practice trauma scenarios! Trauma Image bank.

 

http://www.sccm.org/SCCM/

The Society of Critical Care Medicine

 

http://clevelandclinicmeded.com/micu/index.htm

Cleveland Clinic Algorithms for the Medical Intensive Care Unit

 

http://www.ccmtutorials.com/intro/whatis/index.htm

Critical Care Medicine Tutorials

 

http://www.umm.edu/surgeryhome/index.html

Watch a surgical Webcast performed by UM Medical Center Surgeons.

 

http://www.surgeryencyclopedia.com/index.html

The Encyclopedia of Surgery for healthcare students and patients.

 

http://www.medbioworld.com/cgi-bin/displaycontents.cgi?table=med&type=Journals&filecode=(M)%20Critical%20Care

Intensive Care, Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Journals & Databases

 

http://www.aast.org/

The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma

 

http://www.amtrauma.org/

American Trauma Society

 

http://students.med.nyu.edu/erclub/ekghome.html

A Guide to Reading and Understanding the EKG

 

http://ascca.org/index.html

American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists