Best Critical Care Resources

This lecture offers a path to managing any patient on the ventilator in the ED. I have tried to simplify as much as possible while still maintaining an evidence-based approach.

This page is a compilation of all things Delayed Sequence Intubation (DSI) The Delayed Sequence Intubation (DSI) Publication is in Ann Emerg Med 2014 and i

There is a ton of stuff to do post-intubation besides confirming the tube and giving the team high-fives. Here is the post-intubation package to make it so.

A lecture from SMACC2013 on how not to kill the shocked patient when intubating

Great lecture very important to have a grasp on before going into these time critical situations.

EMS Physician Cliff Reid of the amazing blog, resus.me is a guest this week on EMCrit.

Another part in this series:
https://emcrit.org/emcrit/own-the-resus-room/

Scott Weingart: "This was my favorite lecture from SMACC 2013. If you are not moved and inspired then your heart is made of stone."

There is a ton to speak about regarding vasopressors, but before we get to the edge cases, we need to set-up a foundation.

The sick and the dead from SMACCdub

The science of trauma resuscitation has undergone a fairly massive evolution in the past decade. This talk was our attempt to summarize the best-of-the-best in trauma literature from the past several years, and package it into a series of clinically useful recommendations (i.e., our evidence-based opinions). This talk was live peer reviewed by trauma surgery deity Karim Brohi, who gave us a thumb’s up (although you kind of had to be there).

In Ep. 138, we discussed the basics of vasopressor and inotrope use. During that podcast, I promised we would go more in-depth in subsequent episodes–this is one of those that will fulfill that promise. Angiotensin II is a new (old) player on the field. To discuss this topic and more on vasopressors, I asked Dr. Mink Chawla to join me on the podcast.

"Today, an update on Push-Dose Pressors. I coined the name Push-Dose Pressors (PDPs) way back on episode 6. The idea was not new, anesthesiologists and resus docs have been using bolus-dose vasopressors for decades. I just thought the name was dumb, these are not boluses in the way I have always thought of them (a brief iv drip). I also thought it was crazy that the concept had not really penetrated very far into emergency medicine and the ICU–at least in the States. My prehospital doc friends told me it was common in their world. Since the podcast, I have received 100s of emails describing the use of PDPs to lifesaving effect (or at least code-preventing), but there has been scant published literature on this technique in EM. Recently that has all changed."

Weingart: "This was my favorite lecture from SMACC 2013. If you are not moved and inspired then your heart is made of stone.
This was my favorite lecture from SMACC 2013. If you are not moved and inspired then your heart is made of stone.

This is a Cliff Reid lecture; if you want more Cliff, see these incredible lectures and podcasts:

Chicken Bombs and the Muppet Factor
Mind of the Resuscitation Interviews Part I
Mind of the Resuscitation Interviews Part II
Own the Resus Room"

Another Corey Slovis classic!

Another Corey Slovis classic! He goes through the most common crashing situations and gives an excellent overview... critical asthmatic, anaphylaxis (and how to use the "dirty epi drip" for anaphylactic shock, crashing PSVT, ACLS, etc. Excellent talk!

Some cases to walk through for respiratory disease, airway management, critical care.

The New England Journal of Medicine page dedicated to critical care.