Wander over to the Evidence Based Medicine section of the website which has recently been opened!
Here you will have an opportunity to review an excellent series from the BMJby senior lecturer Trisha Greenhalgh entitled “How to read a paper.” This series goes through the basics of a systematic approach on reading, analyzing and critiquing a scientific paper. The BMJ has consistently been a reliable resource for evidence based medical practice sticking to their motto “Helping doctors make better decisions.” Enjoy!
This should at least provide a starting point for our young medical colleagues as well as a good review for the more experienced ones in the art of scientific investigation and evidence based medical decision making. As always please feel free to leave comments and suggestions. Remember, this is an open forum, become part of it!
Here is a five part series nicely done by an ER resident from University of Chicago that goes over step by step what is requires to place a central line. This is directed towards an ER resident but certainly the techniques can be applied to the SICU as well. This is a good review for the new residents who have may have never seen the inside of the kits and who have never seen a line performed. Soon we will have our own videos and then you might be able to see another way this is done.
Sorry for the delay over the past year and a half!! Wow has it really been that long…Been really busy with the new job, new house and etc….Either way the Minutes are back on and you should be expecting frequent updates and exciting new ICU 2.0 features. Stay tuned !!
Dr. Douglas Naylor presented an excellent focused review of the basic management of Burn and Trauma patients. Even though this may not address the “run of the mill” ICU patients, it is extremely important for critical care practitioners to understand the basics of acute trauma management. Always remember the BASICS!!! A irway, B reathing, C irculation !!!
Dr. Tim Sable’s review of a common and recurrent issue in critical care practice: therapy misalignment. Review the presentation to see how current practitioners use randomized controlled trials to manage ICU patients and whether or not these therapies are in line with the results of the studies. Dr. Sable reviews the TRICC and ARMA trials as examples. This presentation is archived in the section of Journal Club Presentations.
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Dr. Dana Darwish presents an excellent review of one of the classic papers in critical care literature by Rivers et al. This landmark study looks at Early Goal-Directed Therapy in the treatment of Septic Shock. Do we finally have an answer to the near 40% mortality rate from this morbidity? The review of the stud below may help you figure that out. This presentation is archived in the section of Journal Club Presentations.
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