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Critical Care
March 20, 2020
March 18, 2020
Filmed March 18, 2020, Brian Mitzman moderates a discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic with an international group of physicians currently on the front lines.
March 18, 2020
The authors describe a thoughtful process for resource utilization in the setting of competing needs that optimizes survival for a popultion. Examples of existing guidelines are provided.
March 18, 2020
This important paper is the modeling that the UK has based its advice on.
March 17, 2020
Simulation of the intubation plan for COVID-19 patients in the current pandemic. Simulation follow the FICM, RCoA, ICS and AAGBI online published guidance.
March 16, 2020
This is a very interesting article with four scenario live simulators that demonstrate what happens to the peak of the outbreaks in various sitations from no isolation to severe isolations for a population. A very useful graphical tool to show why this is an important strategy at the moment.
March 16, 2020
This is a MUST WATCH interview with Maurizio Cecconi, president elect of the European Intensive Care Society and an intensivist in Milan, Italy, where the Lombardy region has looked after around a thousand patients in the intensive cares of the region with COVID-19. He is interviewed by the Editor in Chief of JAMA and gives very sensible advice.
February 24, 2020
In 2014, Edwards Lifescience launched an ambitious philanthropic initiative called Every Heartbeat Matters (EHM) with the goal of impacting the global burden of heart valve disease through the education, screening and treatment of 1 million underserved people by 2020.
February 4, 2020
Jill Ley moderates a discussion on infection prevention and the management of surgical wounds with Teresa Kieser, Richard Van Valen, and Melissa Rochon.
December 31, 2019
As the year comes to a close, the CTSNet staff present the five most shared articles published in 2019.