- 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/ - 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://www.ards.org/ - Asthma Management Model System
A comprehensive site with information on research, treatment and concerns related to asthma. http://www.nhlbisupport.com/asthma/ - CCRN Net
Includes articles, index of resources, chat, photography, and games. http://www.ccrnnet.com/main_index/ - 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 Nursing C
Outline on hemodynamic monitoring. http://course1.winona.msus.edu/nursing412/Winona/lecture%20outlines%20nosek/hemodynamic%20monitoring.htm - 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 - GASNet
Academic content for the Anesthesiology/Intensive Care community. Includes information on subjects such as airway management, pediatrics, hemodynamics, resuscitation, intracranial hypertension, acid-base balance, anesthesia. http://www.gasnet.org/ - ICUs and Nursing Web Journal
Contains critical care and emergency related articles, associations, conferences, drug information, nursing links, online journals, medical and nursing cartoons. http://www.nursing.gr/ - IntensiveCare.Com
Has resources for practicing Evidence-Based Nursing and Medicine. http://www.intensivecare.com/ - Johns Hopkins: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Offers education and research related to pulmonary medicine. Site features clinical programs relating to various lung diseases and provides a definition, evaluation, treatment, research, and educational material for each. http://www.hopkins-lungs.org/ - 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/ - NetNurseNotes
Offers articles on acid-base balance, interpreting arterial blood gases, and shock. http://www.manaink.com/nurse/netnursenotes.html - 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/ - Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring
Describes the procedure for insertion of PA lines, interpretation of waveforms and values and the potential complications. http://rnbob.tripod.com/pap.htm - 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, suppliments, links and a schedule of conferences. Available in print and online. http://ccforum.com/ - The Medical Algorithms Project
Contains more than 3,500 algorithms and 44 different chapters covering all major medical topics. Provides computation, formula, survey, or look-up tables, useful in health care with one chapter devoted to critical care. http://www.medal.org/ |