Reviews and Guidelines

Airway

• Tracheostomy Tubes
• State of the art: percutaneous tracheostomy in the intensive care unit

Neurology

• Death by neurologic criteria
  • Brain death/death by neurologic criteria: What you need to know

Respiratory

• ARDS
  • An Official American Thoracic Society/European Society of Intensive Care Medicine/Society of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Practice Guideline: Mechanical Ventilation in Adult Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• Ventilators and Liberation
  • How I Teach Auto-PEEP: Applying the Physiology of Expiration
  • Official Executive Summary of an American Thoracic Society/American College of Chest Physicians Clinical Practice Guideline: Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Ill Adults
  • How I Teach: Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation
• Pneumonia
  • How to approach a patient hospitalized for pneumonia who is not responding to treatment?

Circulation

• Hemodynamics
  • How I Teach: Heart–Lung Interactions during Mechanical Ventilation. Positive Pressure and the Right Ventricle
  • A Holistic Four-Interface Conceptual Model for Personalizing Shock Resuscitation
• PE
  • 2019 ESC Pulmonary Embolism Guidelines
  • CHEST Guidelines: Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease

GI

• Nutrition
  • Early enteral nutrition in critically ill patients: ESICM clinical practice guidelines

Nutrition

• Guidelines for the provision of nutrition support therapy in the adult critically ill patient: The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
• ASPEN Guidelines Factsheet
• Nutritional support for the trauma and emergency general surgery patient: What you need to know

Renal

• Clinical review: Practical approach to hyponatremia and hypernatremia in critically ill patients
• Practical Approach to Physical-Chemical Acid-Base Management. Stewart at the Bedside

Heme

• DVT/PE
  • Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report.

Infectious Disease

• IDSA Practice Guidelines
• Sepsis
  • SEPSIS-3
  • Surviving sepsis campaign: international guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock 2021
• VAP
  • Executive Summary: Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society
• C. diff
  • The always evolving diagnosis and management of Clostridioides difficile colitis: What you need to know
• Antibiotic Resistance
  • Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidance on the Treatment of Extended-Spectrum β-lactamase Producing Enterobacterales (ESBL-E), Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), and Pseudomonas aeruginosa with Difficult-to-Treat Resistance (DTR-P. aeruginosa)
  • Guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control of infections caused by carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacilli
  • IDSA 2024 Guidance on the Treatment of Antimicrobial Resistant Gram-Negative Infections
• Bacteremia
  • Management of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: A Review
• NSTI
  • Current diagnosis and management of necrotizing soft tissue infections: What you need to know

Endocrine

• Steroids
  • 2024 Focused Update: Guidelines on Use of Corticosteroids in Sepsis, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, and Community-Acquired Pneumonia
  • Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency (CIRCI) in critically ill patients (Part I): Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) 2017

Ultrasound

• How I Teach the Estimation of Right Ventricular Systolic Pressure Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound

Orthopedics

• Western Trauma Association Critical Decisions in Trauma: Management of the mangled extremity

Acute Care Surgery

• Contemporary management of acute pancreatitis: What you need to know
• The difficult cholecystectomy: What you need to know
• Current diagnosis and management of acute colonic diverticulitis: What you need to know
• Surgical management of small bowel obstruction: What you need to know
• Management of Enteroatmospheric Fistulas: What you need to know
• Evidence-based, cost-effective management of large bowel obstruction: An algorithm of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Emergency General Surgery Algorithms Work Group
• Contemporary management of common bile duct stone: What you need to know
• Common postbariatric surgery emergencies for the acute care surgeon: What you need to know
• Intraabdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome: What you need to know