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Welcome to ICU Medicus!
We are pleased to provide this resource to all healthcare professionals in the field of critical care medicine and related subspecialties. Users of ICUMedicus are able to exchange information, knowledge and ideas with other health care professionals; and to access decision support tools and cutting-edge scientific information in the field of Critical Care Medicine.
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| Whether you are a resident preparing for the internal medicine board examination, an internist who is keeping up with his skills or an intensivist who wants an excellent teaching materials for his residents and fellows, we believe that you will enjoy and benefit from the efforts of our carefully selected, high quality educational materials. |
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Critical care nurses, respiratory therapists and clinical pharmacists will find plenty of educational materials related to their practices and will benefit them remarkably.
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| Medscape Critical Care Articles |
 Different images of disease manifestations for different scenarios related to the critically ill patients. Some of the images are presented in more details with the full case presentation under the section of ICU cases
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 This library is a collection of real EKG and rhythm recordings which will help improve ECG skills of the residents, felows or ICU nurses. It covers most of the commonly encountered rhythm strips and EKG's in the intensive care unit including myocardial infarctions, heart blocks, atrial and ventricular arrhythmias.
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 Different video clips of ICU procedures including central line placement, Swan Ganz placement, arterial lines and endotracheal intubation. The clips are edited to illustrate step by step instructions. You can download the clips and replay them in your presentations to your student and resident. If you have a music piece that you want it in the background, you can email it to me and I will place on future clips
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 Interesting cases of different ICU X-rays including plain X-rays, CT scans, angiograms and ultrasounds, related to critical care diagnoses and complications. Here where you can see most of the commonly encountered complications in the ICU as well as very rare procedure related complications and critical care events.
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 Microbiology Trivia: browse through a vartiety of grams stains in an interactive trivia, a little bit of different microorganisms including gram positive and gram negative bacteria in addition to fungi and parasites, excellent educational tools for medical students and residents. Intensivists should be familiar with the procedure and the reading of gram stains and they should be able to do it themselves as it might be a life saving procedure in some of the cases!
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