- Acid-Base Balance: A Tutorial - Includes physiology and treatment, and the history of ABG analysis.
www.tmc.tulane.edu/departments/anesthesiology/acid/acid.html
- 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.
www.acid-base.com
- Anesthesia, Critical Care and Emergency Medicine - Includes links to anesthesia principles, practices, journals and departments, as well as critical care and emergency medicine resources.
www.invivo.net/bg/index2.html
- 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.
www.ards.org
- Asthma Management Model System - A comprehensive site with information on research, treatment and concerns related to asthma.
www.nhlbisupport.com/asthma
- CCRN Net - Includes articles, index of resources, chat, photography, and games.
www.ccrnnet.com/main_index
- 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.
www.ccmtutorials.com
- Critical Care Nursing C - Outline on hemodynamic monitoring.
course1.winona.msus.edu/nursing412/Winona/lecture%20outlines%20nosek/hemodynamic%20monitoring.htm
- Critical Care Paramedic Protocols - Includes prehospital medical protocols and standing orders. Site provided courtesy of Bryan E. Bledsoe, DO, FACEP.
www.ssgfx.com/CP2020/medtech/procedures/protocols.htm
- Critical Caring - Contains ICU/ED/EMS links, including Pediatric/NICU, critical care and emergency links.
www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/8100
- Critical Thinking in Critical Care - Interactive scenarios of bedside decisions, interventions, and prioritizing care.
nursing.umaryland.edu/students/~jkohl/scenario/opening.htm
- 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.
www.gasnet.org
- Gloria's Critical Care Resources - A critical care web page with links to related sites such as cardiology, trauma and anesthesiology.
w3.one.net/~gloriamc
- Hemodynamics - Features techniques in assessment and troubleshooting in hemodynamic monitoring. Includes a post test evaluation form.
freeceus.com/HM/Hemodynamic.htm
- ICUs and Nursing Web Journal - Contains critical care and emergency related articles, associations, conferences, drug information, nursing links, online journals, medical and nursing cartoons.
www.nursing.gr
- In-Hospital Defibrillation - Should non-critical care nurses perform defibrillation? This site has links to articles, letters and research.
www.defib.net
- Intensive Care and Trauma Unit Online Journal - Offers articles and calendar of events. (McGill University Health Center) [English, French]
www.mmip.mcgill.ca/sicu/default.html
- IntensiveCare.Com - Has resources for practicing Evidence-Based Nursing and Medicine.
www.intensivecare.com
- 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.
www.hopkins-lungs.org
- Joint Statement on Resuscitative Interventions - Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) has prepared this joint statement in collaboration with other national health related organizations.
www.cna-nurses.ca/pages/policies/resuscitative.html
- 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.
www.rcsed.ac.uk/journal/vol44_6/4460010.htm
- My Tool Box - Offers definitions and concepts pertaining to intensive care. Includes concepts of preload, afterload, cardiac output, and hemodynamic monitoring.
www.prescottfamily.net/mytoolbox.htm
- NetNurseNotes - Offers articles on acid-base balance, interpreting arterial blood gases, and shock.
www.manaink.com/nurse/netnursenotes.html
- 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.
rnbob.tripod.com
- Online Pulmonary Textbook - Reviews pulmonary anatomy, disease and tumors.
www.vh.org/Providers/ProviderOrgSys/OSPulmonary.html
- 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.
www.chestnet.org/education/pccu
- Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring - Describes the procedure for insertion of PA lines, interpretation of waveforms and values and the potential complications.
rnbob.tripod.com/pap.htm
- Pulmonary Embolus - A multimedia textbook with presentation, diagnosis via scan, CT and pulmonary angiography, with multiple case studies.
www.vh.org/Providers/Textbooks/ElectricPE/ElectricPE.html
- Pulse Oximetry - Describes how it works, calibration, and performance considerations.
www.nda.ox.ac.uk/wfsa/html/u05/u05_003.htm
- Shock - Outline of the stages and types of shock.
course1.winona.msus.edu/nursing412/Winona/lecture%20outlines%20nosek/shock.htm
- 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.
ccforum.com
- 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.
www.medal.org
- Virtual Critical Care Nurses ICQ List - Chat with friends and colleagues online.
www.virtualnurse.com/ICQPAGE/specialties/CriticalCare.html
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