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** Neuro **
*EAST Guidelines: Pain Management for Blunt Thoracic Trauma
*Screening for Thoracolumbar Spine Fracture
*The Diagnosis of Brain Death
*Status Epilepticus
*Antiseizure Prophylaxis
*Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke
*Management of Thoracolumbar Fracture
*Pain Management for Blunt Thoracic Trauma

** Cardiovascular **
*Afib in the Surgical Intensive ICU
*Afib in the Trauma Patient in the ICU
*Afib - Rate versus Rhythm
*Rate versus Rhythm in Patients w Persistent Afib
*Amiodarone for Afib
*New-Onset Afib in the MICU
*Amiodarone for Resuscitation after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest due to Ventricular Fibrillation
*Cardiac Resuscitation
*Cardiogenic Shock
*Early Revascularization in Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic
Shock

*Congestive Heart Failure
*Intraaortic Balloon Pump
*Valvular Heart Disease
*Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease Using Risk Factor Categories
*Vasopressors & Inotropes
*Trial of Goal-Oriented Hemodynamic Therapy in Critically Ill Patients
*Immediate Versus Delayed Fluid Resuscitation for Hypotensive Patients with Penetrating Torso Injuries

** Pulmonary **
*Guidelines - Community Acquired Pneumonia
*Guidelines - Hospital Acquired, Ventilator Assoc Pneumonia
*Acute PE: PIOPED II
*Outcomes in Post-ICU Mechanical
Ventilation

*Reexpansion Pulmonary Edema
*ARDS - Fluid Conservative Strategy
*ARDS - Inhaled Betas
*ARDS - Low Tidal Volumes
*ARDS - PA vs CVP
*ARDS - PEEP
*ARDS - Lung Recruitment
*ARDS - Corticosteroids
*ARDS - Trauma Cohort
*ARDS - Protective-Ventilation Strategy
*ARDS - Treatment
*The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
*ARDS - Editorial: Prone Position
*ARDS - Effect of Prone Positioning
*Transfusion Related Acute Lung Injury
*Noninvasive Ventilation
*A Comparison of Noninvasive Positive-Pressure Ventilation and Conventional Mechanical Ventilation in Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure
*Advances in Mechanical Ventilation
*Aspiration Pneumonitis and Aspiration Pneumonia
*Major Pulmonary Embolism
*Pulmonary Embolism
*Pleural Effusion
*Clinical Aspects of Respiratory Muscle Dysfunction in the Critically Ill
*The Timing of Tracheotomy
*Prevention of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia

** FEN **
*Diagnosis of Metabolic Acid-Base Disturbances in Critically Ill Patients
*Early jejunal feeding with early gastric feeding in critically ill patients
*Intensive Insulin Therapy in Critcally Ill Patients
*Comparison of Omeprazole and Placebo for Bleeding Peptic Ulcer
*Immediate Versus Delayed Fluid Resuscitation for Hypotensive Patients with Penetrating Torso Injuries
*Management of Cirrhosis and Ascites

** Other **
*International Conference: Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
*Compartment Syndrome
*IAP Guidelines for the Surgical Management of Acute Pancreatitis
*Acute Mesenteric Ischemia
*Acute Mesenteric Ischemia (by Grace Yu)
*Xigris Restrictions
*General Surgery Review Manual (by Peter Attia)
*Handling Floor Calls for Interns (Scott Perryman, MD and Amanda Wheeler, MD)

 

** Renal **
*REMEDIAL TRIAL - Volume vs Bicarb vs Mucomyst for Contrast Nephropathy
*Acute Oliguria
*Prevention of Contrast-Induced Nephropathy with Sodium Bicarbonate
*Prevention of Radiographic-Contrast-Agent-Induced Reductions in Renal Function by Acetylcysteine
*N-Acetylcysteine and Contrast-Induced Nephropathy in Primary Angioplasty
*Dialysis Therapy
*Daily Hemodialysis and the Outcome of Acute Renal Failure
*Continuous Hemofiltration in the Treatment of Acute Renal Failure
*Low-dose dopamine in patients with early renal dysfunction: a placebo controlled
randomised trial

** Hematology **
*Factor VII for severe bleeding and DIC
*4 T's for diagnosis of HIT
*Antithrombotic Therapy for Venous Thromboembolic Disease - ACCP Conference
*ELISA for HIT
*Transfusion Related Acute Lung Injury
*The Coxibs, Selective COX-2 Inhibitors
*COX Inhibitors and Thromboregulation
*Platelet-Active Drugs
*Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
*Efficacy of Erythropoietin in Critically Ill
Patients

*Hemostatic Drugs
*Low-Molecular Weight Heparins
*Temporal Aspects of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia
*Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia
*HIT Alogorithm
*Blood Transfusion in Elderly Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction
*Transfusion Medicine (1/2)
*Transfusion Medicine (2/2)
*Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial of Transfusion Requirements in Critical Care
*The Effect of Arterial Lines on Blood-Drawing Practices and Costs in the ICU
*Stanford ICU Blood Transfusion Guidelines

** Sepsis & Shock **
*Surviving Sepsis Campaign
*Hydrocortisone in Septic Shock
*Hydrocortisone and Fludrocortisone for Septic Shock
*Treating Patients with Severe Sepsis
*Pathophysiology and Treatment of Sepsis
*Efficacy and Safety of Recombinant Human Activated Protein C for Severe Sepsis
*The Pathogenesis of Vasodilatory Shock
*Beneficial Effects of Short-term Vasopressin Infusion during Severe Septic Shock
*Physiology of Vasopressin Relevant to Management of Septic Shock
*Inflammation, coagulopathy, and the pathogenesis of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
*High-Dose Antithrombin III in Severe Sepsis
*Immediate Versus Delayed Fluid Resuscitation for Hypotensive Patients with Penetrating Torso Injuries
*Early Goal-Directed Therapy in the Treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock
*Corticosteroids for Septic Shock
*Effect of Treatment with Low Doses of Hydrocortisone and Fludrocortisone on Mortality in Patients with Septic Shock
* Corticosteroid Therapy in Severe Illness
* Adrenal Insufficiency in High Risk Surgical ICU Patients
* Adrenal Insufficiency in the Critically Ill

** Infectious Disease **
*Preventing Complications of Central Venous Catheterization
*Empiric Therapy for GP
*Linezolid vs Vanc - MRSA soft tissue
*Linezolid vs Vanc - MRSA
*Linezolid vs Vanc - PNA
*Antiobiotic Resistance in the
Intensive Care Unit

*Virulent Klebsiella
* Surgical Site Infection and the Routine Use of Perioperative Hyperoxia in General Surgical Population
* Supplemental Perioperative Oxygen to Reduce the Incidence of Surgical Wound Infection