Web Directory

» 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.
   http://ards.org/

» 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.
   http://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.
   http://www.invivo.net/bg/index2.html

» 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.
   http://www.ccmtutorials.com/

» Critical Care Paramedic Protocols
   Includes prehospital medical protocols and standing orders. Site provided courtesy of Bryan E. Bledsoe, DO, FACEP.
   http://www.ssgfx.com/CP2020/medtech/procedures/protocols.htm

» Introduction to Pulse Oximetry
   Describes mechanism, limitations, and myths.
   http://www.pulseox.info/

» Joint Statement on Resuscitative Interventions
   Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) has prepared this joint statement in collaboration with other national health related organizations.
   http://www.cna-nurses.ca/CNA/documents/pdf/publications/PS21_Joint_Statement_Resuscitative_Interventions_1995_e.pdf

» 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.
   http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/journal/vol44_6/4460010.htm

» Nepean Intensive Care
   Includes some academic work of these ICU nurses, an image library, quiz page and controversy issues.
   http://www.nepeanicu.org

» 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.
   http://rnbob.tripod.com/

» 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.
   http://www.chestnet.org/education/online/pccu/

» Pulse Oximetry
   Describes how it works, calibration, and performance considerations.
   http://www.nda.ox.ac.uk/wfsa/html/u05/u05_003.htm

» The Critical Care Forum
   Includes commentaries on recent issues, research, clinical guidelines, reports, educational reviews of clinical practice, basic science, and technology, supplements, links and a schedule of conferences. Available in print and online.
   http://ccforum.com/

» The New England Journal of Medicine: Critical Care
   Offers articles, case reports, and reviews on topics such as shock, sepsis, and acute respiratory distress. [Subscription required to view some articles.]
   http://content.nejm.org/cgi/collection/critical_care