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Clinical practice guideline: Red blood cell transfusion in adult
trauma and critical care*
Crit Care Med 2009 Vol. 37, No. 12

Guidelines for the provision and assessment of nutrition support
therapy in the adult critically ill patient: Society of Critical Care
Medicine and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
Crit Care Med 2009 Vol. 37, No. 5

Guidelines for the provision and assessment of nutrition support
therapy in the adult critically ill patient: Society of Critical Care
Medicine and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral
Nutrition: Executive Summary
Crit Care Med 2009 Vol. 37, No. 5

Clinical practice parameters for hemodynamic support of pediatric and neonatal septic shock: 2007 update from the American College of Critical Care Medicine.
Crit Care Med 2009 Vol. 37, No. 2

Recommendations for the diagnosis and management of corticosteroid insufficiency in critically ill adult patients: Consensus statements from an international task force by the American College of Critical Care Medicine
Crit Care Med 2008 Vol. 36, No. 6

Guidelines for evaluation of new fever in critically ill adult patients: 2008 update from the American College of Critical Care Medicine and the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Crit Care Med 2008 Vol. 36, No. 4

Early Acute Management in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury: A Clinical Practice Guideline for Health-Care Providers
Paralyzed Veterans of America 2008 May; 0-929819-20-9

Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: A consensus statement by the American College of Critical Care Medicine
Crit Care Med 2008 Vol.36, No.3

Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008*
*The correct citation for this article is as follows. Dellinger RP, Levy MM, Carlet JM, et. al: Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008 [published correction appears in Crit Care Med 2008; 36:1394-1396]. Crit Care Med 2008; 36:296-327.
Visit the SSC website: http://www.survivingsepsis.org 
Click here to view 2009 SSC Statement on Glucose Control

» If you wish to implement the Surviving Sepsis Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock in your hospital using the IHI change bundles, click here.

Clinical practice guidelines for support of the family in the patient-centered intensive care unit: 2004-2005
Crit Care Med 2007 Feb 35(2):605-622

Practice parameters for hemodynamic support of sepsis in adult patients: 2004 update
Crit Care Med 2004 September;32(9):1928-1948

Guidelines for the acute medical management of severe traumatic brain injury in infants, children, and adolescents
Pediatr Crit Care Med 2003 July;4(3):S1-S75

Clinical practice parameters for hemodynamic support of pediatric and neonatal patients in septic shock
Crit Care Med 2002 June;30(6):1365-1378

Clinical practice guidelines for sustained neuromuscular blockade in the critically ill adult patient
Crit Care Med 2002 Jan;30(1):142-156

Clinical practice guidelines for the sustained use of sedatives and analgesics in the critically ill adult
Crit Care Med 2002 Jan;30(1):117-141

Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit
Crit Care Med 2001 Dec;29(12):2332-2348

Recommendations for nonheartbeating organ donation
Crit Care Med 2001 Sep;29(9):1826-1831

Practice parameters for evaluating new fever in critically ill adult patients
Crit Care Med 1998 Feb;26(2):392-408

Guidelines for granting privileges for the performance of procedures in critically ill patients
Crit Care Med 1993 Feb;21(2):275-278

Guidelines for standards of care for patients with acute respiratory failure on mechanical ventilatory support
Crit Care Med 1991 Feb;19(2):275-278

Evidence-based guidelines for weaning and discontinuing ventilatory support
Chest 2001;120:375S-395S

Guidelines for the management of intravascular catheter-related infections
Clin Inf Dis 2001;32:1249-1272

Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections
MMWR 2002;1(RR-10):1-29

Administrative Guidelines

Guidelines and levels of care for pediatric intensive care units
Crit Care Med 2004 October; 32(10):2117-2127

Admission and discharge guidelines for the pediatric patient requiring intermediate care
Crit Care Med 2004 May;32(5):1215-1218

Guidelines for critical care medicine training and continuing education
Crit Care Med 2004 Jan;32(1):263-272