See also:

• Health: Medicine: Medical Specialties: Critical Care  (10)
• Health: Medicine: Medical Specialties: Pulmonary Medicine  (39)
• Health: Medicine: Surgery: Trauma  (12)

• 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 - Information on research, treatment and concerns related to asthma.
• 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.
• 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.
• ICUs and Nursing Web Journal - Contains critical care and emergency related articles, associations, conferences, drug information, nursing links, online journals, medical and nursing cartoons.
• 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.
• 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.]
• 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.