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Resources Specific to Sinai Health ICU

These resources are specific to clinical situations you may encounter in the Sinai ICU. They are intended for ICU fellows or residents with substantial previous ICU exposure. For residents new to the ICU, we recommend focusing your learning on the general ICU concepts above.

We care for a large number of critically ill patients with cancer and frequently manage obstetrical emergencies (resources coming soon). For additional oncologic critical care resources, please visit the Critical Care Oncologic Investigative Network (COIN) website. Many of the resources contained in each topic below are from this website which is a collaborative between Sinai Health and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

Emergencies in Malignant Hematology

One Page Summaries:

Suggested Admission Orders:

Research and Review Articles:

The following articles may also be helpful:

Respiratory Failure in Immunocompromised Patients

Respiratory Failure in Immunocompromised Patients

 

Research and Review Articles

The following articles may also be helpful:

Critical Illness in Patients on Novel Therapies

One Page Summaries

Novel Cancer Therapies for the Intensivist - Dr. Bruno Ferreryo

 

Research and Review Articles

The following articles may also be helpful:

Obstetrical Emergencies in Critical Care

Obstetric Critical Care

The new meropenem and piptazo extended infusion protocols

PRACTICE CHANGE: Meropenem and Piperacillin-Tazobactam Extended Infusion 

Friday Fellows' Teaching: Previous Topics

Oncologic Critical Care

Sepsis, Shock and Fluid Resuscitation

Respiratory Failure and Pneumonia

Mechanical Ventilation and Airway Management

Post-Arrest and Cardiac Critical Care

POCUS and Echocardiography

Sedation and Analgesia

Neurocritical Care and Neurology

Acute Kidney Injury, Renal Failure, Topics in Nephrology

Obstetric Critical Care

Surgical Critical Care

  • Leeches in ICU, Should I be Concerned?
  • Post -Op Free Flaps: fluids vs pressors
  • Abdominal Compartment Syndrome

Goals of Care, Long-Term Outcomes, Post-ICU Care

Miscellaneous

  • Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract in Intensive Care Unit Patients (SUDDICU) – JAMA 2022
  • Total parenteral nutrition (TPN)/Supplemental parenteral nutrition in the ICU
  • Hyperammonemia in Critically Ill Patients
  • A review on current knowledge on gut microbiota in critical illnesses
  • Inflammatory biomarkers as predictors for ICU admission and adverse outcomes
  • Good Vibes Only: Pitfalls of the Blood Pressure Cuff
  • Multi Inflammatory Syndrome
  • “Crikey!: snakebite envenomation for the non-Australian intensivist (and other animals that can kill you)”
  • A trial with stress ulcer prophylaxis
  • Reassessing the need for scheduled replacement of short-term central venous catheters: A narrative comprehensive review
  • Intravascular Complications of Central Venous Catheterization by Insertion Site
  • An alternate for methylene blue: high-dose IV hydroxycobalamin (Vitamin B12) in refractory distributive shock
  • Review of Cardiac Obstetrics
  • Inhaled Sedation in ARDS
  • Pressor Targets  and OPTPRESS TRIAL
  • Primary Results of the PEERLESS Randomized Controlled Trial
  • The influence of positive pressure ventilation on renal function
  • Hospital-Wide Implementation, Clinical Outcomes, and Safety of Phenobarbital for Alcohol Withdrawal
  • Scoring Systems in the ICU
  • Angiotensin ll in Vasodilatory Shock 
  • The Use of Esophageal catheter to regulate PEEP
  • Effect of Hydrocortisone on Mortality in Patients with Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia: The REMAP-CAP Corticosteroid Domain Randomized Clinical Trial
  • Albumin resuscitation in sepsis and septic shock
  • Diagnosis of severe respiratory infections in immunocompromised patients- The DIRECT framework 
  • Mixed vasodilatory-cardiogenic shock: current insights and practice
  • Space Physiology in ICU
  • Cardiogenic shock - contemporary challenges and opportunities
  • Deferring Arterial Catheterization in Critically Ill Patients with Shock.
  • Corticosteroids in septic shock
  • Peripheral Vasopressor Use in Early Sepsis-Induced Hypotension 
  • Use of melatonin in the prevention of delirium
  • Ketamine or Etomidate for Tracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults
  • Introduction to resuscitative TEE
  • PICS (Post ICU Syndrome):  Critical Care associated disease and Opportunities for Prevention.
  • Use of melatonin in the prevention of delirium
  • Introduction to resuscitative TEE
  • PICS (Post ICU Syndrome):  Critical Care associated disease and Opportunities for Prevention.
  • Setting PEEP using electrical impedance tomography
  • Using TTE as a Swan-Ganz catheter
  • HELLP/DIC/TTP/AFLP
  • Lactate in ICU
  • Utility of Biomarkers to guide antimicrobial therapy
  • Steroids in Critical Care Medicine
  • The EVERDAC trial  with an introduction about shock in general
  • The ICU Hangover: Understanding Post-Intensive Care Syndrome 
  • Ultrasound-Facilitated, Catheter-Directed Fibrinolysis for Acute Pulmonary Embolism
  • The SOHO trial: is it all about mortality?
  • Personalized Hemodynamic Resuscitation Targeting Capillary Refill Time in Early Septic Shock
  • RCT on using IPC to reduce the incidence of upper extremity venous thrombosis after PICC placement in TBI patients
  • Sodium Bicarbonate forSevere Metabolic Acidemia And AcuteKidneyInjury
    The BICARICU-2 Randomized ClinicalTrial
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