Clinical Education Resources

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Articles

UW General Critical Care Primer

Description:

  • Guidelines for general critical care treatment

UW Medical Critical Care Primer

Description:

  • Guidelines for medical critical care treatment

UW Surgical Critical Care Primer

Description:

  • Guidelines for surgical critical care treatment

Now What Do I Do? Just-in-Time Learning Documents

Description:

  • Critical Care Training for Non-Critical Care Trained Providers

DoD COVID-19 Practice Management Guide

Description:

  • Last updated 3/23/2020
  • Comprehensive best practice based on latest evidence

Treatment Guide for Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19

Description:

  • Presentation, diagnostics, change in usual care, hemodynamics, and therapeutics for critically ill patients with COVID-19

Evidence-based guidelines for COVID-19 Respiratory Management

Description:

  • Synthesis of current experience coming from China, Italy, and the United States

A Seattle Intensivist's One Pager on COVID-19

Description:

  • Visual showing the biology, epidemiology, diagnosis, presentation, treatment, and prognosis of COVID-19

Managing COVID-related Thrombotic Complications

Description:

  • Review of current understanding of patients with COVID-19 who develop venous or arterial thrombosis

ACS Home Skilll Kits Help Patients, Caregivers Implement Complex Care at Home during Pandemic

Description:

  • Evidence-based programs of video and booklets with step-by-step instructions and checklists to effectively support self-care and caregiving post discharge

Videos

Refresher Videos on Critical Care Topics in the Age of COVID

Source: Dr. Jessica Bunin, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University

Description:

  • Designed for non-intensivists 
  • Topics include vent basics, sepsis, IV vasoactive medications and acid/base disorders

Surgical Intensive Care Unit Prone Positioning

Source: University of Michigan

Description:

  • Step-by-step guide to transferring a patient to prone position

Podcasts

Surgery Sett

Description: A podcast by SCW’s very own Jonathan Kohler, and recent sessions featuring Barbara Boyer and Jill Ties, active members of the SCW Executive Committee. 

Behind the Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Description:

  • COVID-19 Essentials for Surgeons
  • COVID-19 Special – Ventilator Management Refresher for Surgeons
  • Healthcare Leadership in Crisis

The Latest Word on Medicine

Description:

  • Discusses medical topics of immediate interest 
  • Features a different MCW faculty member each week

Websites

COVID-19 Elective Case Triage Guidelines for Surgical Care

Description:

  • Guidelines how to curtail elective surgical procedures, including cancer cases

Society of Critical Care Medicine

Description:

  • Online course – Critical Care for Non-ICU Clinician
  • Surviving Sepsis Campaign COVID-19 guidelines

UpToDate COVID-19

Description:

  • Provides information on epidemiology, clinical features, evaluation and diagnosis, management, and prevention

Michigan Critical Care Collaborative Network

Description:

  • Lessons on the treatment of COVID-19 and ICU care

Best Case/Worst Case: ICU, with special content for patients with COVID-19

Description:

  • Tool designed to support decision-making between clinicians, patients, and their families

Comprehensive ED Protocol

Description:

  • Helpful for providers who have not yet seen many COVID-19 patients 
  • Provides firsthand accounts of COVID-19 treatment in the emergency department

ATLS COVID-19 Resources

Description:

  • Basic trauma care education materials and videos