Understand why routine lactate rechecks every 3–4 hours for days, prompting more fluids and vasopressors, can worsen outcomes ...

As we enter the peak of the flu season, deaths and hospitalizations have sharply spiked to epidemic levels, resulting in more patients being treated in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) across the country.

In this second article of a six-part series on critical care medicine, we discuss patient assessment. The assessment process must consider the patientâ s physiological, sociological, psychological and ...

While Congress’ recent efforts to repeal the healthcare reform legislation signed by President Obama last year may have been ‘dead on arrival,’ efforts to dismantle the bill continue, and likely will ...

The SSM Health/Saint Louis University School of Medicine Critical Care Medicine fellowship program offers a one or two-year A.C.G.M.E.-accredited critical care fellowship to graduates of approved ...

The August 29 issue of the Journal will include the first in a series of review articles on critical care. Critical care is a young specialty that is generally considered to have developed from the ...

The management of circulatory shock in critically ill patients necessitates precise assessment of cardiovascular dynamics. Contemporary research has shifted focus from static pressure measurements to ...

The ACGME-approved Surgical Critical Care Fellowship program, within the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, provides fellows with a broad-based education in all phases of surgical critical care ...

Many healthcare leaders are strategizing to meet the requirements of section3022 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This historic passage of legislation to reform our nation’s ...

The UAB Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship is a fully accredited three-year program that combines research and clinical experiences to prepare our trainees to become excellent intensivists who are ...

Pediatric intensive care has only been recognized as a distinct subspecialty for 20 y. The specialty grew out of a need for increasingly complex postoperative management, in the face of advances in ...

In our comprehensive fellowship program, you will receive a broad range of hands-on clinical experience and individualized instruction from nationally-known physicians and investigators in a collegial ...