Friday, January 9, 2009

HFOV

Dr Vishal Gupta has asked about High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation, there are some articles available to understand principles. The links are -

1.http://www.med.umich.edu/ccmu/docs/HFOV.pdf
2.http://scalpel.stanford.edu/ICU/HFOV%20Guidelines.pdf
3.High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation for Adult Patients With ARDS
Kenneth P. W. Chan, Thomas E. Stewart and Sangeeta Mehta
Chest 2007;131;1907-1916

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Question asked on Renal Failure in ICU

Please see the links -

1. JAMA article: Renal Replacement Therapy in Patients With Acute Renal Failure
JAMA, February 20, 2008—Vol 299, No. 7 793-805

2. www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1661614

Thanks

Sunday, January 4, 2009

AMQ

Its nice Harjit to start something like this. I believe it will help all to understand the facts and principles in critical care.

Ok Harjit, we can start with you, put some question for which you are trying to get answer or some interesting experience in critical care.

Congratulations!

My sincerest wishes to all on the CCA blog.

It is said that necessity is the mother of all inventions and innovations, and at present the most important need of the hour is to help others with what we have learnt over the years.And what better medium than the Internet to help us achieve this.

Let us spare some time for this ongoing process and hope that we are able to do some service to the mankind and those who need it most.

The simplest way to start any forum is to start asking questions.So, it would be a good idea to start a section on-- ANSWER MY QUERY (AMQ in short).In which we/anybody puts a question/s on the blog and the answer will be provided by some one who either knows the answer or has the time to answer that/those question/s.The questions will come from our everyday practice as we come across the patients/situations/equipment.If we are not able to provide the answer we should at least provide a reference or an authentic link.

To be continued.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Welcome All!!!!

Happy new year to all of you, we have started this blog to help to uplift the level of Intensive care medicine in India and the rest of world. We intend to do this by-
- Continued medical education by searching the latest developments pertaining to this field
- Discussion and network formation between various critical care specialists and other doctors all over India and abroad
- Helping the formation of group for providing and creating awareness of Basic life support and some knowledge of advanced life support
- Creating the knowledge and referrence bank for doctors

Please feel free to share your experiences and views to help critical care to reach heights for betterment of common man. Looking forward for your support and comments