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A central component of the Society's mission is the support of quality-based improvement initiatives and the support of multiprofessional research at all levels.
This article describes the new Leapfrog quality metrics and their methodology, focusing on postoperative sepsis identification and the potential impact of dashboard performance tracking moving forward. Critical care professionals routinely encounter patients with sepsis and play an integral role in the formulation and implementation of management plans for postoperative sepsis, making them key participants in this effort.
This is a complimentary chapter from the textbook: Current Concepts in Adult Critical Care, 2018 Edition, titled "Alarms, Noise, and Delirium in the ICU"
This is a complimentary chapter from the textbook: Fundamental Critical Care Support, Sixth Edition (2017), titled "Recognition and Assessment of the Seriously Ill Patient." Prepared under the direction of SCCM by an international team of leading multiprofessional critical care educators in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, internal medicine, nursing, pediatrics and surgery, the FCCS textbook assists the non-intensivist in dealing with the sudden deterioration of critically ill patients and prepares house staff and nurses for ICU coverage.
This is a complimentary chapter from the textbook: Current Concepts in Adult Critical Care titled "Seamless Transitions of Care."
"Implementing High-Value Care Programs: Success Stories" was published in the 2018 April/May issue of Critical Connections.
"Teaching High-Value Care to the Future Workforce" was published in the 2018 April/May issue of Critical Connections.
"Critical Care Clinical Pharmacist Burnout" was published in the February/March 2018 issue of Critical Connections.
Todd Fraser, MD, speaks with Bradford D. Winters, PhD, MD, FCCM, about alarm and alert fatigue in critical care. Alarm fatigue is the desensitization that clinicians experience to frequent alarms, particularly those that do not provide useful clinical information, or false alarms.
Kyle Enfield, MD, speaks with Wes Ely, MD, MPH, about his talk presented at the 2017 Multiprofessional Critical Care Review: Adult course in Rosemont, Illinois entitled, “Early Mobility in Critically Ill Patients: More to Come.”
Todd Fraser, MD, speaks with Jenny Tcharmtchi, BSN, RN, CCRN, about the article, “Family Experience in the PICU,” published in Critical Connections, the Society of Critical Care Medicine's newsletter.
Todd Fraser, MD, speaks with Arjen Slooter, MD, PhD, about the article, “Long-Term Mental Health Problems After Delirium in the ICU,” published in Critical Care Medicine.
Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Christina L. Cifra, MD, about the article, “Transforming the Morbidity and Mortality Conference to Promote Safety and Quality in a PICU,” published in the January 2016 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
Michael S. Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCM, speaks with Sean Bagshaw, MD, MSc, about the article, “Long-Term Association Between Frailty and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Survivors of Critical Illness: A Prospective Multicenter Cohort Study*,” published in Critical Care Medicine.
Ludwig Lin, MD, speaks with Ann M. Parker, MD, about the article, "Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Critical Illness Survivors: A Metaanalysis*," published in Critical Care Medicine.
Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Chani Traube, MD, about the article, “Pediatric Delirium and Associated Risk Factors: A Single-Center Prospective Observational Study,” published in the May 2015 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with R. Phillip Dellinger, MD, MCCM. Dr. Dellinger is a plenary speaker at this year’s Critical Care Congress.
Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 2015 President, Craig M. Coopersmith, MD, FCCM.
Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Claudia Delgado-Corcoran, MD, MPH, about the article, “Reducing Blood Testing in Pediatric Patients After Heart Surgery: A Quality Improvement Project,” published in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Meredith F. Bone, MD, MSCI, about the article, “Risk Factors for Acquiring Functional and Cognitive Disabilities During Admission to a PICU,” published in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.