This page contains (links in title):

BJA education articles
Recent guidelines, key websites and resources
Landmark ICU trials

BJA education articles

Last 5 years of BJA Ed/ATOTW Articles (A-Z)

• Airway pressure release ventilation (APRV)
• Analgesia on ICU 1
• Analgesia on ICU 2
• Antibiotic stewardship in ICU
• Antibiotic resistance in ICU
• Bronchoscopy in ICU
• Capnography in ICU
• Critically ill transfer (adult)
• Critically ill transfer (child)
• Diagnosis of death
• Diagnosis of death using neurological criteria
• EEG in ICU
• Ethics of organ donation
• Follow up after ICU
• Heart beating brain-dead organ donor management
• Hyperoxia in ICU
• DCD
• Physiological changes after brainstem death
• Nutrition in ICU
• Parenteral nutrition in critical care
• Sedation on ICU
• Delirium on ICU
• Rheumatology in ICU
• Haematology in ICU
• Renal replacement therapy
• Scoring systems
• Steroids in ICU
• Ventilator associated pneumonia
• Vitamin C and thiamine
• Withdrawal of life sustaining therapy

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Recent guidelines or key articles

Guidelines:

• Noninvasive resp support in hypoxaemic peri-operative/periprocedural patients, 2020 ESICM/ESA
• Surviving sepsis guidelines for septic shock and organ dysfunction in children, 2020 ESICM
• Delirium and acute encephalopathy guidelines, 2020 ESICM
• Fluid therapy in neuro intensive care patients, 2018 ESICM
• Covid 19 PPE guidance in ICU, 2020 FICM
• Prone positioning in adult ICU, FICM
• Management of perceived devastating brain injury after hospital admission, FICM
• Management of ARDS, FICM

Key websites:

• FICM website
• Joint COVID website
• FFICM exam website
• Intensive care society website
• Intensive care society guidelines that can be downloaded (all in PDF format)
• ESICM website
• ESICM guidelines
• Critical care reviews – an excellent group with an amazing meeting summarising top trials and guidelines each year

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Important landmark trials in ICU:

(For quick summaries, check out the top 100 CCR papers)

• GRECCO ICU – colchicine for Covid 2019
• STARRT-AKI – renal replacement in AKI
• RECOVERY – dexamethasone for Covid 2019
• HALT-IT – TxA in acute GI bleeding
• ARDSNet – lung protective ventilation in ARDS
• TRICC trial – restrictive vs conventional approach to red cell transfusion
• CHEST trial – HES vs saline for fluid resuscitation
• CESAR trial – ECMO vs conventional ventilation for severe ARDS
• CRASH 2 – Tranexamic acid in major trauma
• SAFE study – Albumin vs saline for fluid resuscitation
• Kress et al – Sedation holds for mechanically ventilated ICU patients
• 6S trial – HES vs Ringer’s in severe sepsis
• NICE-Sugar trial – Intensive vs conventional glucose control in ICU
• Low dose dopamine in early renal dysfunction
• PROSEVA – proning in ARDS
• ProCESS – protocol based care for early septic shock
• PAC-Man – PA catheters in ICU