Reference articles on Critical Care

• ACCP DVT  diagnosis and management guidelines
•  Use of anabolic agents in catabolic states (2.20.2007)
• Adrenal Pathophysiology in the Critically Ill (from Chest 2006)
• Anemia and Critical Illness: JAMA 2002
• Anemia of the critically ill: "Acute" anemia of chronic disease
• Anemia: Nutritional Deficiencies and Blunted Erythropoietin Response as Causes of the Anemia of Critical Illness
• Anthrax as a biological weapon - JAMA 2002
• Atrial fibrillation and anticoagulation
• APRV - CCM 2005
• ARDS: albumin and lasix
• Beta blockers and burns
• Blood conservation in critical illness
• Bronchoscopy (BAL) for pneumonia (con)
• Bronchoscopy (BAL) for pneumonia (another con)
• Central venous catheters: methods to decrease infections
• Crush Injuries: Earthquakes and Crush Injuries, Lessons Learned (2007)
• Crush Injuries: Management of Crush Related Injuries after Disaster. (NEJM 2006)
• Crush Injuries: Management of Patients with Acute Crush Injuries to the Extremities
• Death by hyperventilation
• Diuretics and Renal Failure (CCM 2004)
• DVT: EAST Guidelines
• Early tracheostomy
• Epo and critically ill patients - JAMA 2002
• Epo editorial
• Epo: Avoid transfusions at what cost($)?? (6.8.07)
• Usefullness of Epo
• Factor  IX deficiency - brief notes (3.13.07)
• Factor IX deficiency -eMD article (3.13.07)
• Hemostasis - Local and systemic (mp3 audio file)
• Hyperglycemia: Control of Hyperglycemia with long-acting insulins.
• Hyperglycemia: Glucose control and mortality in the ICU (JAMA 2003)
• Hyperglycemia: Glycemic control in nondiabetics (Mayo proceed, 2005)
• Hyperglycemia: Intensive insulin therapy in critically ill patients (NEJM 2001)
• Hyperglycemia: Intensive insulin therapy in the MICU (NEJM 2006)
• Hyperglycemia: Intraoperative hyperglycemia and perioperative outcomes in cardia surgery patients (Mayo proceed 2005)
• Ketamine for burn sedation
• Lithium dilution cardiac output monitor outcomes
• Family Center ICU Guidelines
• Nerve agent poisoning for the critical care physician
• Neuromuscular blockade guidelines - review article
• Nitrous oxide for minor procedures in pediatric patients
• Prone positioning and PEEP in ARDS
• Radiation exposure and treatment - JACS 2006
• Rotational bed therapy - meta-analysis - Am J Crit Care.  2007;16(1):50-61.  - posted 2.18.07
• Sepsis: use of vasopressors
• Shock: hemorrhage and the leaky bucket - JACS 2007
• Steroids are NOT the standard of care for spinal cord injury
• Steroids and spinal cord injury-- more data against their use
• VDR improves outcomes with smoke inhalation (5.7.07)
• Weaning from mechanical ventilation