Intensive care medicine essentials [CICM]: Apps, podcasts & online lectures

The goal of this program is to improve patient outcomes in critical care medicine.

The goal of this program is to improve management of emergence delirium.

The goal of this program is to improve management of issues in the intensive care unit.

The goal of this program is to improve management of heart failure (HF) by implementing best practices for managing insulin pumps in the operating room.

The goal of this program is to improve patient outcomes through understanding of clinical research in trauma, including Advanced Trauma Life Support guidelines for fluid resuscitation, and optimising use of use of bicarbonate for haemorrhagic shock for cardiac arrest.

The goal of this program is to improve the diagnosis of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).

This goal of this program is to improve management of traumatic brain injury (TBI), including therapies for fluid resuscitation, intracranial pressure risks, and reversal agents for anticoagulant therapies.

The goal of this program is to assess the effectiveness of follow-up services for intensive care unit (ICU) survivors. Topics include post intensive care syndrome (PICS) and the various needs of ICU survivors.

The goal of this program is to improve outcomes in non-operating room anesthesia (NORA) settings by identifying challenges, removing hazards, and developing strategies and procedures.

This program is to improve emergency management at ambulatory surgical centres, and includes recognising the symptoms of oculocardiac reflex and medications to treat local aanesthetic systemic toxicity.

This program aims to improve management of post-intensive care syndrome and explains some ways in which cognitive impairment can result from a stay in the ICU.

This program aims to improve treatment of right ventricle (RV) failure.

This program aims to improve management of patients on the ventilator in the operating room, and includes strategies for early ventilator management of the critically ill.

This program aims to improve pediatric advanced life support and the contrasting use of cuffed vs uncuffed endotracheal tubes in pediatric advanced life support.

This program aims to improve management of critically ill patients through use of advanced mechanical support devices.

SCCM’s LearnICU app offers you online learning on the go! All online learning, assessment, and examination preparation opportunities from the LearnICU website are available on your mobile device, so you can access material when it is most convenient for you!

The Patient Communicator App is designed to improve communication among patients, families, and caregivers. With translations in 18 languages; a diary feature; options to easily communicate about pain, moods, and needs; a glossary of terms and other education materials for patients and families; the Patient Communicator app can help ease the stress of a hospital stay.

All of SCCM's resources are in one central location within the SCCM App. SCCM App users are able to: access the Critical Care Congress App, access the Surviving Sepsis Campaign App, stream all iCritical Care episodes, search the SCCM Member Directory, view and download SCCM guidelines, and find News and Career Central updates.

These podcasts from the British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA), discuss a broad range of issues including those in perioperative and intensive care medicine. The BJA is available through the ANZCA Library Journals list.

These podcasts cover a variety of topics, including episodes with themes of anaesthesia, critical care and pain, as based on the journal BJA Education, which can be accessed via the ANZCA Library Journals list.

Join Adam Thomas and Josh Farkas in the podcast that accompanies The Internet Book of Critical Care.

The IBCC podcast will explore key points in each chapter. Initially the release of podcasts may lag a bit behind the chapters for logistic reasons. However, our goal is to eventually have a podcast for each chapter. Subsequently, the podcast will discuss updates to the IBCC based on new evidence.

The Mastering Intensive Care podcast was created to help and inspire intensive care clinicians to improve the care we give to our patients by providing interesting and thought-provoking conversations with highly respected and experienced clinicians.

In each episode, Andrew Davies, an intensivist from Frankston Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, speaks with a guest for the purpose of hearing their perspectives on the habits and behaviours that they believe are the most important for improving the outcomes of our patients.

The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Podcast features in-depth interviews with leaders in critical care. Experts discuss hot topics in intensive care with perspectives from all members of the critical care team.