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.
Anesthesia, Critical Care and Emergency Medicine: Includes links to anesthesia principles, practices, journals and departments, as well as critical care and emergency medicine resources.
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.
Asthma Management Model System: A comprehensive site with information on research, treatment and concerns related to asthma.
CCRN Net: Includes articles, index of resources, chat, photography, and games.
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.
Critical Care Paramedic Protocols: Includes prehospital medical protocols and standing orders. Site provided courtesy of Bryan E. Bledsoe, DO, FACEP.
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.
ICUs and Nursing Web Journal: Contains critical care and emergency related articles, associations, conferences, drug information, nursing links, online journals, medical and nursing cartoons.
IntensiveCare.Com: Has resources for practicing Evidence-Based Nursing and Medicine.
Introduction to Pulse Oximetry: Describes mechanism, limitations, and myths.
Joint Statement on Resuscitative Interventions: Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) has prepared this joint statement in collaboration with other national health related organizations. [PDF]
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.
Nepean Intensive Care: Includes some academic work of these ICU nurses, an image library, quiz page and controversy issues.
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.
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.
Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring: Describes the procedure for insertion of PA lines, interpretation of waveforms and values and the potential complications.
Pulse Oximetry: Describes how it works, calibration, and performance considerations.
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.
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.
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.]