Sinai Health ICU - Fellows Teaching Topics
Recently Discussed Topics:
Oncologic Critical Care
- Neurologic Complications in Patients with Hematologic Malignancies
- Pulmonary Complications Post-BMT
- Benefits of dexamethasone on early outcomes in patients with acute myeloid leukemia with hyperleukocytosis: a propensity score matched analysis – Ann Hemat 2023
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in adults receiving haematopoietic cell transplantation: an international expert statement – Lancet Resp Med 2023
Sepsis, Shock and Fluid Resuscitation
- Balanced Crystalloids vs. Saline in Critically Ill Adults – NEJM 2018
- Restriction of Intravenous Fluids in ICU Patients with Septic Shock – NEJM 2022
- Intravenous Vitamin C in Adults with Sepsis in the Intensive Care Unit (LOVIT) – NEJM 2022
- Discussion: The Clovers Trial – NEJM 2023
- Fludrocortisone with Hydrocortisone in Septic Shock – JAMA Int Med 2023
- Lactate in septic shock
- Double Carbapenem Therapy for Multidrug-Resistant Organisms
- MERCY trial: Continuous vs Intermittent Meropenem – JAMA 2023
- Peripheral norepinephrine use
ARDS and Pneumonia
- Low-Dose Methylprednisolone in Patients with Severe Pneumonia (The ESCAPe Trial) – ICM 2022
- Long-Term Mortality and Health-Related Quality of Life of Lower vs. Higher Oxygenation Targets in ICU Patients with Severe Hypoxemia – ICM 2022
- A New Global Definition of ARDS – AJRCCM 2023
- Health Expectations and Quality of Life After Acute Respiratory Failure
- Idiopathic pneumonia syndrome
- Inhaled amikacin to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia
Mechanical Ventilation and Airway Management
- The Difficult Airway Algorithm
- The Use of Ultrasound to Confirm Endotracheal Tube Placement
- Spontaneous-Breathing Trials with Pressure-support Ventilation or a T-Piece
- Continued enteral nutrition until extubation compared with fasting before extubation in patients in the intensive care unit – Lancet Resp Med 2023
- A review of steroids for absent cuff leak and laryngeal edema
- Video versus Direct Laryngoscopy for Tracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults
- Adaptive Support Ventilation
- Peri-operative and Endobronchial TXA
- Effect of Noninvasive Airway Management of Comatose Patients With Acute Poisoning
Post-Arrest and Cardiac Critical Care
- Guidelines for Post-Resuscitation Care
- Cooling Post-Cardiac Arrest: Is the debate settled?
- Angiography Post Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest – NEJM 2021
- Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation – NEJM 2023
- Takotsubo Syndrome
Sedation and Analgesia
- Haloperidol vs. placebo for the treatment of delirium in ICU patients: a pre-planned, secondary Bayesian analysis of the AID–ICU trial – ICM 2023
- Ketamine: The bountiful K-hole
Neurocritical Care
Miscellaneous
- Aggressive or Moderate Fluid Resuscitation in Acute Pancreatitis – NEJM 2022
- Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract in Intensive Care Unit Patients (SUDDICU) – JAMA 2022
- Anaphylaxis Management: Keep it in mind!
- Family Response to Critical Illness: Post-intensive care syndrome in caregivers – CCM 2012
- Two clinical cases highlighting key points regarding aortic disease
- A short review on the differential for Rapidly Progressive Dementia, with a focus on CJD.
- Treatments for acute pulmonary embolism
- Do we believe in Myths?: “Renal outcomes following intravenous contrast administration in patients with acute kidney injury: a multi-site retrospective propensity-adjusted analysis“
- Total parenteral nutrition (TPN)/Supplemental parenteral nutrition in the ICU
- Platelet Transfusion before CVC Placement in Patients with Thrombocytopenia
- Hyperammonemia in Critically Ill Patients
- A review on current knowledge on gut microbiota in critical illnesses
- Leeches in ICU, Should I be Concerned?
- Post -Op Free Flaps: fluids vs pressors
- Severe Hyponatremia Correction, Mortality, and Central Pontine Myelinolysis – NEJM Evidence 2023
- Inflammatory biomarkers as predictors for ICU admission and adverse outcomes
- VExUS score for grading of systemic venous congestion
- Good Vibes Only: Pitfalls of the Blood Pressure Cuff
- Let it flow: Acetazolamide in the 21st century
- Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) in ICU
- The 2023 AHA Updated CPR Guidelines on Cardiac Arrest After Poisoning
- Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
- Pulmonary Embolism
- “Corticosteroids in Sepsis, ARDS and CAP” (Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2024 Focused Update).
- Ceftriaxone to prevent early VAP in patients with traumatic brain injury
- A New Global Definition of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- A research project I am doing in collaboration with the CANCOV group
- Multi inflammatory Syndrom
- Acute Respiratory Failure in patients with hematological malignancy: (No) time to catch a breath
- Long-term survival and functional outcomes of critically ill patients with hematologic malignancies: a Canadian multicenter prospective study. Intensive Care Med. 2024 Apr;50(4):561-572. doi: 10.1007/s00134-024-07349-z. Epub 2024 Mar 11. PMID: 38466402
- Graft versus host disease
- What lies under the rubble: complicated grief following death of a loved one in ICU
- Benefits of Dexamethasone on early outcomes in patients with acute myeloid leukemia with hyperleukocytosis : a propensity score matched analysis
- Finding the optimal tidal volume in acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Critical Care Considerations for patients with Fontan Circulation
- Relationship between immunosuppression and intensive care unit-acquired colonization and infection related to multidrug-resistant bacteria: a prospective multicenter cohort study
- “Crikey!: snakebite envenomation for the non-Australian intensivist (and other animals that can kill you)”
- Ketamine – Should we be using it for multimodal pain therapy in the ICU?
- Prolonged vs Intermittent Infusions of Antibiotics
- Using echocardiography to predict fluid-responsiveness and manage the need for fluids
- The third Intensive Care Bundle with Blood Pressure Reduction in Acute Cerebral Haemorrhage Trial (INTERACT3): an international, stepped wedge cluster randomised
controlled trial - Methylene Blue in early sepsis?
- Outcomes in Critically Ill Allogeneic HSCT Recipients
- Noninvasive Ventilation for Preoxygenation during Emergency Intubation
- A trial with stress ulcer prophylaxis
- Retrospective Tertiary Care-Based Cohort Study on Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Ceftazidime-Avibactam-Resistant Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Infections
- High flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy versus non-invasive ventilation for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute-moderate hypercapnic respiratory failure: a randomized controlled non-inferiority trial.
- Outcomes in Critically Ill Allogeneic HSCT Recipients
