Preparing Adult Clinicians to Treat Pediatric Patients: Part 2

As pediatric cases of COVID-19 increase, it is vital to prepare for surges that may overwhelm capacity in pediatric intensive care units (ICUs). Pediatric critical care experts will address questions related caring for critically ill pediatric patients and steps to prepare for...

Managing Moral Distress During a Pandemic

Review the concept of moral distress and how it can lead to burnout during a pandemic. Thought leaders will teach conflict management strategies and ways to better support your teams to avoid burnout. The Managing Moral Distress During a Pandemic webinar was held on November 1...

UCHealth COVID-19 Pharmacotherapy Guidance

This community developed resource is a quick reference guide for utlization of various COVID-19 pharmacotherapies.

Best Practices for Managing Staff Shortages

During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems have been overwhelmed with patients, leading to clinician burnout and staffing issues. In this free webcast, learn how leaders from various intensive care units are managing staff shortages Webcast Recorded on Thursday, October ...

COVID-19: Lessons from the Frontline

COVID-19 case presentation from the team at Mayo Clinic - Florida that brings together many of the STOP-VIRUS Collaborative lessons learned over the course of the past 6 months.

Supporting Our Community: Well Being, Moral Distress, and Burnout

Erin Strong, BSN, RN, CCRN from the University of Pennsylvania, Amanda Frary, MSN, RN; Sydney O'Brien, RRT and Amber Dewey, RRT from Valleywise Health focus on the bedside experience during the Pandemic.  Karen Korzick, MD from Geisinger Medical Center, discusses how these exp...

Challenges and Some of the Potential Solutions to Delivering Patient and Family Centered Care

The Patient Perspective (Ken Burkhom) What the Bedside Nurse Sees (Erin Strong) How the ICU Team Adapts (Jackie Guiliani, Preeti John) Addressing the Repercussions of “Social Distancing” Requests for inappropriate care, managing conflict (Alex Kon) Shared decision ma...

Managing Health Disparities in the Setting of Triage Decisions

Julia F. Taylor, MD, MA, HEC-C from the University of Virginia presents on the topic of Health Disparities; Katherine Fischkoff, MD from Columbia University presents on Resource Allocation; and Erin S. DeMartino, MD from Mayo Clinic presents on Pandemic Planning.  Curriculum...

COVID Associated Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)

Dr. Marlies Ostermann from Guy’s & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Hospital in London, UK, who covered the evaluation and management of acute kidney injury in patients with COVID-19, including a review of the COVID ADQI Work Group AKI consensus report.  Curriculum Topic:  Fluids,...

Arterial Ischemia in COVID-19; Is Ischemic Stroke More Prevalent with COVID?

Dr. Daniel Temas from Prisma Health will present a case study presentation.  Paul Nyquist, MD,  from MPH, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will provide an update on Stroke literature related to COVID and speak to thrombosis and Ischemic stroke impact.  Curric...

Interleukin-6 in Critical Coronavirus Disease 2019, a Driver of Lung Inflammation of Systemic Origin?

From C ritical Care Explorations . In this Brief Report the authors examined whether interleukin-6 in critical coronavirus disease 2019 is higher in arterial than in central venous blood, as a sign of predominantly local pulmonal rather than systemic interleukin-6 production.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 Tracheostomy Candidacy, Ceteris Paribus Assumptions, and Tracking Survivorship Data

From Critical Care Medicine . This Editorial accompanies the article by Angel et. al titled "Percutaneous Dilational Tracheostomy for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients Requiring Mechanical Ventilation".

Thrombocytopenia After Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination: Remember to Put the Blame on Others Too

From Critical Care Medicine . This Editorial accompanies the article by Iba et. al titled "Recognizing vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia".

Accelerating Coronavirus Disease 2019 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines—Selecting Compounds for Clinical Evaluation in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Clinical Trials

From Critical Care Medicine . In this Review Article the authors established a uniform data collection process required to perform an assessment of any agent type using review criteria that were identified and differentially weighted for each agent class,

Barotrauma in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients Undergoing Invasive Mechanical Ventilation: A Systematic Literature Review

From Critical Care Medicine . In this Review Article the authors performed a systematic literature review to identify rates of barotrauma, pneumothorax, and pneumomediastinum in coronavirus disease 2019 acute respiratory distress syndrome patients receiving invasive mechanica...

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic Impacts Burnout Syndrome Differently Among Multiprofessional Critical Care Clinicians—A Longitudinal Survey Study

From Critical Care Medicine . In this Clinical Investigation the authors determined the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 on burnout syndrome in the multiprofessional ICU team and identified factors associated with burnout syndrome.

Increased Incidence of Ventilator-Acquired Pneumonia in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients: A Multicentric Cohort Study

From Critical Care Medicine . In this Clinical Investigation the authors estimated the overall incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia, the cumulative incidence, and hazard rate of the first and the second ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Prone Position in Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Noncoronavirus Disease 2019 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: An International Multicenter Observational Comparative Study

From C ritical Care Medicine . In this Clinical Investigation the authors quantified the response to prone position, describe the differences between coronavirus disease 2019 acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute respiratory distress syndrome, and explore variables ass...

Beneficial Effect of Prone Positioning During Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Coronavirus Disease 2019

From Critical Care Medicine . In this Clinical Investigation the authors investigated the impact of prone positioning during venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support for coronavirus disease 2019 acute respiratory failure on the patient outcome.

Vascular Thrombosis in Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 Requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Multicenter Study

From Critical Care Medicine . In this Clinical Investigation the authors conducted a multicenter study using whole-body CT to examine the prevalence, severity, and nature of vascular complications in coronavirus disease 2019 in comparison with patients with other viral pneumo...