Critical Care Specialties Nursing
Critical Care Specialties Nursing
This section holds sites of interest to the critical care nurse. Subcategories hold sites of more specialized interest.
Top: Health: Nursing: Specialties: Critical Care
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Nepean Intensive Care - Includes some academic work of these ICU nurses, an image library, quiz page and controversy issues.
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Anesthesia, Critical Care and Emergency Medicine - Includes links to anesthesia principles, practices, journals and departments, as well as critical care and emergency medicine resources.
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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.
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Joint Statement on Resuscitative Interventions - Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) has prepared this joint statement in collaboration with other national health related organizations.
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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.
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Critical Care Paramedic Protocols - Includes prehospital medical protocols and standing orders. Site provided courtesy of Bryan E. Bledsoe, DO, FACEP.
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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.
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Pulse Oximetry - Describes how it works, calibration, and performance considerations.
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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.
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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.
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Introduction to Pulse Oximetry - Describes mechanism, limitations, and myths.
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Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring - Describes the procedure for insertion of PA lines, interpretation of waveforms and values and the potential complications.
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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.
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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.]
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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.
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