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Journal – Critical Care Medicine
: 20 total

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Critical Care Emergency Medicine, by David A. Farcy, William C. Chiu, Alex Flaxman, and John P. Marshall

Critical Care Medicine: Volume:41 Issue:5, PP e61

Critical Care in the Emergency Department: It’s Critical to Know What’s Going On!*

Critical Care Medicine: Volume:41 Issue:5, PP 1367-1368

Long-Term Outcomes After Critical Illness: With All Thy Getting, Get Understanding*

Critical Care Medicine: Volume:41 Issue:5, PP 1369-1370

Determinants of Long-Term Mortality After Critical Illness: Forward. Period*

Critical Care Medicine: Volume:41 Issue:5, PP 1370-1372

Increasing Critical Care Admissions From U.S. Emergency Departments, 2001–2009*

Critical Care Medicine: Volume:41 Issue:5, PP 1197-1204

Mortality After Hospital Discharge in ICU Patients*

Critical Care Medicine: Volume:41 Issue:5, PP 1229-1236

Determinants of Mortality After Hospital Discharge in ICU Patients: Literature Review and Dutch Cohort Study*

Critical Care Medicine: Volume:41 Issue:5, PP 1237-1251

Organ-Specific Tolerance of Anemia: How Do We Translate to the Bedside?*

Critical Care Medicine: Volume:41 Issue:4, PP 1152-1153

On Nontraumatic Brain Injury in Pediatric Critical Illness, Neuropsychologic Short-Term Outcome, Delirium, and Resilience*

Critical Care Medicine: Volume:41 Issue:4, PP 1160-1161

Neuropsychologic Function Three to Six Months Following Admission to the PICU With Meningoencephalitis, Sepsis, and Other Disorders: A Prospective Study of School-Aged Children*

Critical Care Medicine: Volume:41 Issue:4, PP 1094-1103

Estimating Epistatic Snp Profiles on Severe Sepsis in Burn Trauma Patients: 287

Exposure to high stress in the intensive care unit may have negative effects on health-related quality-of-life outcomes after cardiac surgery

Expectations and outcomes of prolonged mechanical ventilation *

Evolving global epidemiology, syndromic classification, general management, and prevention of unknown mushroom poisonings

Expanding the global epidemiology of sepsis *

Epidemiology of Patient Sedation in the Intensive Care Unit.: 218-M

Epidemiology of sepsis in patients with traumatic injury

Epidemiology of acute lung injury

Epidemiology, management, and outcome of severe acute renal failure of critical illness in Australia

Epidemiology of Status Asthmaticus in the Picu.: 41

Journal – Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
: 20 total

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Red Cell Transfusion: Risk Marker or Risk Factor in Cardiac Children?*

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Volume:14 Issue:3, PP 330-331

Clinical Outcomes of Children Receiving Intensive Cardiopulmonary Support During Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant*

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Volume:14 Issue:3, PP 261-267

A Multicenter Outcomes Analysis of Children With Severe Viral Respiratory Infection Due to Human Metapneumovirus

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Volume:14 Issue:3, PP 268-272

Safe and Effective Use of a Glycemic Control Protocol for Neonates in a Cardiac ICU*

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Volume:14 Issue:3, PP 284-289

Transfusion of Leukocyte-Depleted RBCs Is Independently Associated With Increased Morbidity After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery*

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Volume:14 Issue:3, PP 298-305

Pediatric infectious diseases: 2009 update for the Rogers' Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care

Pediatric trauma susceptibility to sepsis

Outcome and prognostic factors in neonates with septic shock*

Pediatric critical care community survey of knowledge and attitudes toward therapeutic hypothermia in comatose children after cardiac arrest

Neurodevelopmental outcome of young pediatric intensive care survivors of serious brain injury*

Neonates with hypoplastic left heart syndrome have ultrasound evidence of abnormal superior mesenteric artery perfusion before and after modified Norwood procedure

Nosocomial catheter-related bloodstream infections in a pediatric intensive care unit: Risk and rates associated with various intravascular technologies*

Novel trial designs for pediatric traumatic brain injury*

Pediatric critical care medicine: Planning for our research future

Pediatric intensive care unit mortality and the oncology patient: Has survival really changed? *

PICU mortality: Is it better 9 to 5? *

Post hoc analysis of calfactant use in immunocompromised children with acute lung injury: Impact and feasibility of further clinical trials *

Neonatal herpes virus infection and extracorporeal life support

Pediatric cancer patients in clinical trials of sepsis: Factors that predispose to sepsis and stratify outcome

Outcomes among neonates, infants, and children after extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation for refractory inhospital pediatric cardiac arrest: A report from the National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation *

Podcasts: 11 total

SCCM Pod-208 PCCM: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant in Children

Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, speaks with Christine N. Duncan, MD, lead author on an article titled “Cl

SCCM Pod-200 PCCM: Mechanical Ventilation Use in Children with 2009 H1N1 Versus Seasonal Influenza

Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, speaks with Carl O. Eriksson, MD, MPH, lead author on an article publishe

SCCM Pod-199 PCCM: Stem Cell Transplant Outcomes

Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, speaks with Ranjit S. Chima, MD, lead author of an article that demonstra

SCCM Pod-197 CCM: Sedative Doses, Mechanical Ventilation and Delirium

Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with Christopher W. Seymour, MD, MSc, lead author on an ar

SCCM Pod-177 CCM: Organizational Culture and Family Satisfaction

iCritical Care associate editor Michael S. Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, talks with Peter M. Dodek, MD,

SCCM Pod-151 Symptoms Experienced by ICU Patients at Risk of Dying

Kathleen A. Puntillo, RN, DNSc, is the lead author of an article published in the November 2010 Crit

SCCM Pod-147 Daily Predictions of Death in the Medical ICU

William Meadow, MD, PhD, is the lead author of an article published in the March Critical Care Medic

SCCM Pod-92 Physician Management and Patient Mortality in the ICU

Mitchell Levy, MD, FCCM, discusses his article, "Association between Critical Care Physician Managem

SCCM Pod-36 CC: Rapid Response Systems

Marie R. Baldisseri, MD, an intensivist from the University of Pittsburgh, discusses her article fro

SCCM Pod-138 CCM: Understanding Critical Care Trial Design

Better understanding of important aspects of trial design and interpretation, such as whether patien

SCCM Pod-129 CCM: The Use of RIFLE in Patients with AKI

John A. Kellum, MD, FCCM, discusses how one uses RIFLE to take care of patients with acute kidney in

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Articles and Research: 5 total

Sedation and Its Outcomes: How Can We Break the Vicious Cycle?

Sedation and Its Outcomes: How Can We Break the Vicious Cycle was published in the February 2013 iss

SCCM Releases New Pain, Agitation and Delirium Clinical Practice Guidelines

SCCM Releases New Pain, Agitation and Delirium Clinical Practice Guidelines was published in the Feb

Pain, Agitation and Delirium: Challenges in Managing Patients with Neurological Injuries

Pain, Agitation and Delirium: Challenges in Managing Patients with Neurological Injuries was publish

Specific Challenges in Treating the Adult Obese Patient

Specific Challenges in Treating the Adult Obese Patient was published in the August 2009 issue of Cr

Obese Children: Challenges in the ICU

Obese Children: Challenges in the ICU was published in the August 2009 issue of Critical Connections

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Excerpt from the 40th Critical Care Congress. - An intensivist-directed multidisciplinary pediatric

Potpourri - Orals

Excerpt from the 40th Critical Care Congress. - Association of low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels

Basic Science - Orals

Excerpt from the 40th Critical Care Congress. - Detection of acute myocardial infarction using a rea

Controversies in Clinical Trials

Excerpt from the 40th Critical Care Congress. 1. Illustrate challenges of human trials 2. Discuss

Outcomes, biostatistics and evidence-based medicine

Excerpt from the 2010 MCCBRC Pediatric Conference. This course is designed as a comprehensive revi

Going (Gene) Fishing? Net or Spear?

Excerpt from the 39th Critical Care Congress. High-Throughput Technology Is Way Ahead and Is Here to

Therapeutic Implications of Genomics in Critically Ill Children

Excerpt from the 39th Critical Care Congress. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Pediatric Critical

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Publications: 1 total

Sample Chapter: The Role of Epidemiology in Critical Care

Access this complimentary chapter, “The Role of Simulation in Improving Patient Outcomes.” This is a sample chapter from the publication, Current Concepts in Pediatric Critical Care,available for purchase. Current Concepts in Pediatric Critical Care offers cutting-edge information on the latest issues facing ICU practitioners. It is updated annually and is used as a companion to the Current Concepts course held each year at the Critical Care Congress. Each chapter focuses on clinical challenges immediately pertinent to the critical care practitioner. Current Concepts in Pediatric Critical Care includes a range of study tools such as learning objectives, key terms, and a list of current references in bibliographic form.

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On Demand: 2 total

Pediatric Multiprofessional Critical Care Board Review Course (MCCBRC) On Demand

Pediatric MCCBRC is a comprehensive review of the current state of critical care medicine that prepa

Adult Multiprofessional Critical Care Board Review Course (MCCBRC) On Demand

Adult MCCBRC is a comprehensive review of the current state of critical care medicine that prepares

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Blog: 3 total

New Surviving Sepsis Guidelines
The SSC continues its leadership in providing high quality literature review and guidelines for the

SCCM Congress Posters/abstracts
For any of you that attended Congress this year, you probably noticed the large number of posters/ab

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