Inspiring CCM Weekly

A Collection of Suggested Resources Shared Every Sunday

Curated by Uday Gulati | Suggestions? Email me!

Each week, the weekly resource email contains the following resources:

  • πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š: A chapter from the 8th edition along with summarized notes.
  • πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘: A journal article, varying from original research to reviews of the literature.
  • ✍️Blog✍️: A FOAMed blog post.
  • β“§MedXβ“§: A thread from the Critical Care Twitter-verse (now known as MedX)
  • πŸ“ΊYouTubeπŸ“Ί: A video/lecture discussing a relevant topic with my notes.
  • 🎧Podcast🎧: A podcast discussing a relevant topic, with links to Apple and Google Podcasts.

πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 169. Telemedicine in intensive care | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ How toξ€Ÿmanage coagulopathies in critically ill patients (Intensive Care Med, 2023)

✍️Blog | Resource✍️ Concise HeartMate 3 LVAD Overview (CV-EMCrit)

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί Advanced Right Heart Ultrasound for Healthcare Providers (CORE Ultrasound)

🎧Podcast🎧 VEXUS Updates with Ross Prager (Ultrasound GEL) | Spotify | Apple | Notes

β“§MedXβ“§ 10 tips for smooth resuscitations on the ward (Ross Prager)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“šΒ 165. Severity of illness indices and outcome predictionΒ |Β Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ The trajectory ofξ€Ÿvery old critically ill patients (Intensive Care Med, 2024)

✍️Blog | Resource✍️ Post Cardiopulmonary Bypass Care (CABG) with Trina Augustin (CV-EMCrit)

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί HCP Rounds June 2024: Perfusion, Capillary Refill, and more with Dr. Hernandez (Hemodynamics, Congestion and Perfusion Rounds)

🎧Podcast🎧 Diuresis & Negative Fluid Balance (Critical Care Time) | Spotify | Apple | Notes

β“§MedXβ“§Β The Tomahawk Intubation (EM Note)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“šΒ 58 Adjunctive Respiratory TherapyΒ |Β Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Management of cardiac arrest following cardiac surgery (British Journal of Anesthesia, 2018)

✍️Blog | Resource✍️ How to diagnose and avoid ineffective efforts (Hamilton)

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί ISICEM 2023: Future Sepsis Therapies (International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine)

🎧Podcast🎧 POCUS for Nephrology ft. Abhilash Koratala / @nephroP (Critical Care Scenarios) | Spotify | Apple | Notes

β“§MedXβ“§Β What’s the deal with Ammonia in hepatic encephalopathy? A #cirrhosis QI #tweetorial (Elliot Tapper)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“šΒ 150 Traumatic Brain InjuryΒ |Β Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Microaxial Flow Pump or Standard Care in Infarct-Related Cardiogenic Shock (NEJM, April 2024)

✍️Blog | Resource✍️ Advanced Critical Care Ultrasound: Axillary Arterial Lineβ€”Often Forgotten (EMRA)

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί 2024 Critical Care Congress Thought Leader | Fluids: From Theory to Bedside Practice in Hemodynamic Management of Critically Ill (Maurizio Cecconi)

🎧Podcast🎧 Bronch Emergencies with the PulmPEEPS (Critical Care Time) | Spotify | Apple | Notes

β“§MedXβ“§ Epinephrine in Cardiac Arrest (Tony Breu) |Β Part I: Why do we use it?Β |Β Part II: Does it improve outcomes?


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“šΒ 145 Intensive care unit management of lung transplant patientsΒ |Β Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Complication Rates of Central Venous Catheters: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (JAMA, March 2024) | Notes

✍️Blog | Resource✍️ PRVC: Pearls and Pitfalls (CriticalCareNow)

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί Grand Rounds: Cardiac Dysfunction in Sepsis (ATS)

🎧Podcast🎧 End Tidal CO2: Roadside to Resus (The Resus Room) | Spotify | Apple | Notes

β“§MedXβ“§Β 70 yo. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Re-arrested many times…Diagnosing LVOTO via Arterial Line (IMCrit)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“šΒ 146 Perioperative management of the liver transplant patientΒ |Β Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Effect of Vasopressin and Methylprednisolone vs Placebo on Return of Spontaneous Circulation in Patients With In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

✍️Blog | Resource✍️ Iron Age or New Age? (CriticalCareNow)

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί CriticalCare Lounge: Angioedema (Haney Mallemat, Adam Green)

🎧Podcast🎧 CPR-induced consciousness with Jack Howard (Critical Care Scenarios) | Spotify | Apple | Notes

β“§MedXβ“§Β πŸš¨NEW #5Pearls Episode: Iron Deficiency Treatment πŸ’Š πŸ’‰ (CoreIM)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 96 Biomarkers of Acute Kidney Injury | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Monitoring capillary refill time in septic shock (Intensive Care Medicine, March 2024)

✍️Blog | Resource✍️ Elevated Intracranial Pressure Online Sim (NeuroResus)

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί Dyssynchrony! Thinking Simple (ICU Dad)

🎧Podcast🎧 Myocarditis and Pericarditis (Curbsiders) | Spotify | Apple | Notes

β“§MedXβ“§ Modified Clove Hitch for Securing ETT (IMCrit)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“šΒ 74 Myocarditis and Acute MyopathiesΒ |Β Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Ketamine versus etomidate as an induction agent for tracheal intubation in critically ill adults: a Bayesian meta-analysis (Critical Care, Feb 2024)

✍️Blog | Resource✍️ Pecs/Serratus Thoracic Wall Nerve Block for Rib Fractures (Highland EM US)

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography: Complete Exam for ABIM Certification (CHEST, Paul Mayo)

🎧Podcast🎧 Hyponatremia in Critical Illness with Dr Joel Topf aka Kidney Boy (Critical Care Time) | Spotify | Apple | Notes

β“§MedXβ“§Β Can high PEEP worse oxygenation? Yes! A recent case to illustrate (Skyler Lentz)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 43 Coma | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Thiamine administration in septic shock: a post hoc analysis of two randomized trials (Critical Care, February 2024)

✍️Blog | Resource✍️ Point-of-care ultrasound in Hyponatremia (NephroPOCUS)

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί Hydroxocobalamin and Methylene Blue in Septic Shock (Eddy Gutierrez, ResusX)

🎧Podcast🎧 Pulmonary Embolism Part II (Critical Care Time) | Spotify | Apple | Notes

β“§MedXβ“§ Ventilator graphs: Case Review – 65 yo, respiratory failure, intubated 3ds ago. (IMCrit)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 151 Extremity Compartment Syndrome | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Rapid review of ventilator-induced diaphragm dysfunction (Respiratory Medicine, January 2024) | Notes

✍️Blog | Resource✍️ What is Reverse Triggering? (ICUreach)

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί Peripheral Vasopressor Administration (Munroe & Gershengorn, MarylandCC Grand Rounds)

🎧Podcast🎧 Head and neck surgery with Alexandra Kejner (Critical Care Scenarios) | Spotify | Apple | Notes

β“§MedXβ“§ Vent Rounds: Pattern X (Aman Thind)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 37 Basic Principles of Mechanical Ventilation | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Simvastatin in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19 (NEJM, Dec 2023) | Editorial (NEJM, Dec 2023)

✍️Blog | Resource✍️ Bayesian Statistics and Its Relevance to Critical Care Trials (The Bottom Line)

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί How To Perform an Awake Fiberoptic Intubation (Dan Patino)

🎧Podcast🎧 Setting PEEP and Righting the Right Ventricle in ARDS with Matt Siuba (EMCrit) | Spotify | Apple | Notes

β“§MedXβ“§ Let’s talk Airway Ultrasound. One Page on assessing / aiding elective or pre-induction cricothyroidotomy. (Difficult Airway Society Trainees)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 97 Water Metabolism | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Driving pressure: applying the concept at the bedside (Intensive Care Medicine)

✍️Blog | Resource✍️ Ultrasound Confirmation of Endotracheal Tube Placement (NUEM Blog)

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί What’s the Best Blood Pressure After Cardiac Arrest? (Rory Spiegel)

🎧Podcast🎧 Insights into Modern Critical Care with Dr. Jean-Louis Vincent: Part II (Trauma ICU Rounds) | Google | Apple

β“§MedXβ“§ Obtaining the RV Inflow View (NephroPOCUS)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 159 Determination of brain death and management of the brain-dead organ donor | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Effect of Noninvasive Airway Management of Comatose Patients With Acute Poisoning: A Randomized Clinical Trial (JAMA 2023) | Notes

✍️Blog | Resource✍️ Virtual TEE: Toronto Simulator for Standard Views – this was the resource shared during Tuesday’s TEE Lecture

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί Transesophageal Echocardiography in the Intensive Care Unit (Koenig, University of Maryland CC Blog)

🎧Podcast🎧 Do steroids have a role in community-acquired pneumonia? Beyond Journal Club on the CAPE COD Trial (CoreIM) | Google | Apple | Notes

β“§MedXβ“§ MRI Brain Cheat Sheet – If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying! (Alhilali)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 134 Postpartum Hemorrhage | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Red Blood Cell Transfusion in the Intensive Care Unit (NEJM 2023)

✍️Blog✍️ Resuscitative Transesophageal Echocardiography (Maimonides EM)

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί Do you know how to do an awake intubation? (Duggan, CriticalCareNow)

🎧Podcast🎧 Taking ECMO in Pulmonary Embolism to the Next Level (edECMO) | Google | Apple

🐦Tweetorial🐦 WTF is a ‘difficult airway’? A 🧡 (Cliff Reid)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 133 Acute pulmonary complications during pregnancy | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Red Blood Cell Transfusion in the Intensive Care Unit (JAMA) | Notes

✍️Blog✍️ ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: The Right Atrial Pressure Does Not Determine Cardiac Output (PulmCCM) | Part 1 | Part 2 | Notes

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί Part 1: How End Tidal C02 is More Than Just Hot Air (Hockstein) | Part 2: Practice Cases

🎧Podcast🎧 Managing the Breathing Brain (Wahlster, MarylandCCProject) | Google | Apple | Video Lecture

🐦Tweetorial🐦 Selected VEXUS POCUS Teaching Cases (NephroPocus)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 103 Glomerulonephritis | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Go with the flow-clinical importance of flow curves during mechanical ventilation: A narrative review | Notes

✍️Blog✍️ Simplified Algorithm for ACLS in LVAD Patients (Phillips, CriticalCareNow)

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί How do you manage patients who are peri-arrest? (Hagahmed, CriticalCareNow)

🎧Podcast🎧 RV Infarction Treated with RVAD Support (CardioNerds) | Apple | Notes

🐦Tweetorial🐦 Should we concerned about ‘tension ascites’? Is there such a thing? (Prager)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 54 Patient-Ventilator Interaction | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Cefepime vs Piperacillin-Tazobactam in Adults Hospitalized With Acute Infection: The ACORN Randomized Clinical Trial (JAMA)

✍️Blog✍️ ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: Phenylephrine Pushes & Stroke Volume (PulmCCM) | Notes

πŸ“ΊYoutubeπŸ“Ί Coanda effect in Estimating Mitral Regurgitation (Cardiology and Beyond)

🎧Podcast🎧 Decompensated Right Ventricular Failure in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (CardioNerds) | Google | Apple | Notes

🐦Tweetorial🐦 The physical exam of critically ill diabetics should start from their feet! (IM_Crit)

πŸ“ΊYoutubeπŸ“Ί Coanda effect in Estimating Mitral Regurgitation (Cardiology and Beyond)

🎧Podcast🎧 Decompensated Right Ventricular Failure in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (CardioNerds) | Google | Apple | Notes

🐦Tweetorial🐦 The physical exam of critically ill diabetics should start from their feet! (IM_Crit)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 144 Management of the Postoperative Cardiac Surgical Patient | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Unleashing the potential of multi-organ point-of-care ultrasound in acute kidney injury (World Journal of Nephrology)

✍️Blog✍️ Intra-aortic Balloon Pump Troubleshooting (LITFL)

πŸ“ΊYoutube/LectureπŸ“Ί How Do You Manage the Traumatic Airway? (Duggan, CriticalCareNow)

🎧Podcast🎧 Teaching at the Bedside (ATS Breathe Easy) | Google | Apple

🐦Tweetorial🐦 Cases of Resuscitative TEE in the Trauma Bay and ICU (Ross Prager)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 61 Drowning | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Venous return and mean systemic filling pressure: physiology and clinical applications (Critical Care) | Notes

✍️Blog✍️ The OMI Manifesto (Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog) – in-depth PDF available in link

πŸ“ΊYoutubeπŸ“Ί Esophageal Balloon Manometry (Society of Mechanical Ventilation) | Notes

🎧Podcast🎧 Legal Considerations in Critical Care: Care of the Person in the Criminal Legal System (Critical Care Time) | Google | Apple | Notes

🐦Tweetorial🐦 Overview of British Thoracic Society Clinical Statement on pleural procedures


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 85 Hepatopulmonary Syndrome | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Tight Blood-Glucose Control without Early Parenteral Nutrition in the ICU (NEJM) | Notes

✍️Blog✍️ AMAX-Algorithm (LITFL)

πŸ“ΊYoutubeπŸ“Ί Practical Assessment of VILI Risk – Marini (MarylandCCMProject)

🎧Podcast🎧 Crashing Anaphylaxis – AMAX4 Algorithm and The Max McKenzie Case (Emergency Medicine Cases) | Google | Apple | Notes

🐦Tweetorial🐦 Overview of guideline recommendations by SCCM Members on pharmacologic & non-pharmacologic topics related to RSI


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 87.Acute Liver Failure | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Tissue perfusion pressure enables continuous hemodynamic evaluation and risk prediction in the ICU (Nature) | Notes

✍️Blog✍️ Riding the Waves: Ventilator Waveform Interpretation (CriticalCareNow)

πŸ“ΊYoutubeπŸ“Ί Echocardiography: Diastolic Dysfunction (heart_n_lungs)

🎧Podcast🎧 Cardiogenic Shock Update (Critical Care Matters) | Google | Apple

🐦Tweetorial🐦 ICU Stories: evaluating cause of shock in middle-aged pt presenting with sepsis due to aspiration PNA (IMCrit)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 52. Neuroimaging | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Extracorporeal Life Support in Infarct-Related Cardiogenic Shock (NEJM)

✍️Blog✍️ NeuroEMCrit – High Yield Post-It Pearls (Casey Albin)

πŸ“ΊYoutubeπŸ“Ί Do you know how to manage Increased Intracranial Pressure? (Marcolini)

🎧Podcast🎧 Delirium (Critical Care Time): Google | Apple | Notes

🐦Tweetorial🐦 Transcranial Dopplers (TCDs) in the ICU (Casey Albin)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 150. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ WATERFALL: Aggressive or Moderate Fluid Resuscitation in Acute Pancreatitis (NEJM) | Notes

✍️Blog✍️ Fick’s Principle of cardiac output measurement (Deranged Physiology)

πŸ“ΊYoutubeπŸ“Ί What’s the Best Blood Pressure After Cardiac Arrest? (ResusX)

🎧Podcast🎧 Liver Failure, with Elliott Tapper (Critical Care Scenarios) | Google | Apple | Notes

🐦Tweetorial🐦 POCUS assessment of RV function: pearls and pitfalls  (NephroPOCUS)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 111. Intravascular catheter-related infections | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Continued enteral nutrition until extubation compared with fasting before extubation (The Lancet)

✍️Blog✍️ CASA Exam: A Protocol to Guide Point-Of-Care Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest (ACEPNow)

πŸ“ΊLectureπŸ“Ί Applefeld – RV Structure & Point of Care Imaging(Maryland CCM Project)

🎧Podcast🎧 Understanding dialysis, with Paul Adams (Critical Care Scenarios) | Google | Apple | Notes

🐦Tweetorial🐦 β€œDon’t give bicarb if you can’t increase ventilation.” – How much CO2 is there in an amp of sodium bicarbonate? (Nick Mark)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 163. Basic Ethical Principles in Critical Care | Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ Mechanical Ventilation to Minimize Progression of Lung Injury in Acute Respiratory Failure (AJRCCM) | Notes

✍️Blog✍️ How do you manage shivering during TTM? (CritCareNow)

πŸ“ΊYouTubeπŸ“Ί Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest (Core Ultrasound) | Notes

🎧Podcast🎧 Cirrhosis Bleeding Risk, FFP, and Indwelling Pleural Catheters (Core IM Podcast) | Google | Apple | Notes

🐦Tweetorial🐦 Diagnosis via CXR of an elderly lady found down (Sam Ghali)


πŸ“šTextbook of Critical CareπŸ“š 3. Management of Acute Pain in the Intensive Care Unit Notes

πŸ“‘Journal ArticleπŸ“‘ NEJM: Video versus Direct Laryngoscopy for Tracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults

✍️Blog✍️ Push Dose Pressors: Your Quick & Dirty Guide β€” Kwak Talk

πŸ“ΊYouTubeπŸ“Ί Do You Know About The Cognitive Pause in Resuscitation? | Notes

🎧Podcast🎧 Undifferentiated Shock Part 1 – Critical Care Time Podcast (Google | Apple)

🐦Tweetorial🐦 Ketamine: Great summary of many uses!