This site is designed to help deliver and promote information in the Intensive Care setting, specifically for the surgical, medical, and coronary intensive care units. New name www.icu4you.com to make it less confusing.
Links sections will be listed below in categories.
ACLS, Interactive Sites, and Anatomy and Pathophysiology
ACLS (official site of AHA-American Heart Association)
ACLS4you (has rhythm test, mega-code, and questions)
Anatomy - (click on a system, visuals with text)
findings
BMI Table - Check BMI from the table provided, from National Institutes of
Health
Critical Care - evidence-based information relevant to intensivists, has latest
news and research
this interactive patient
WebMD - Look up diseases and conditions
Weblinks - Federal Healthcare Reference Sites, a guide to many official sites
Advanced Practice Nurses
ACNM - American College of Nurse Midwives
ACNP - American College of Nurse Practitioners
CCNS - Critical Care certification for Certified Nurse Specialists
Airway Management/Anesthesia/Respiratory Care
association representing Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists
(CRNAs)
KANA - Kansas Association of Nurse Anesthetists
anaesthesia into one concise, textbook style website)
CDC
Critical Care
AACN - American Association of Critical Care Nursing
AANN - American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
AASCIN - American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Nurses
AHA - American Heart Association
Society's long-range goal is to decrease morbidity and mortality from
respiratory disorders and life-threatening acute illnesses.
Critical Care - Critical Care is a peer-reviewed, clinical medical journal that
aims to improve the care of critically ill patients by acquiring, discussing,
distributing, and promoting evidence-based information relevant to
intensivists.
radiology, CT scans, and medical photography
ENA - Emergency Nurses Association
Health, research related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and
treatment of heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases; and sleep
disorders
procedure and measurements
Historical
Journals
Chest - The Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care Journal
Circulation - Journal of the American Heart Association
PubMed -search through over 14 million citations for biomedical
articles back to the 1950's. (MEDLINE and other journals)
Nursing
Nurse Practice Act
Kaplan - Test Questions in NCLEX format, Question of the week, also
includes strategies for determining the correct answer
question to help study for the NCLEX
RNCentral - has careplans, humor, links, research resources, and forums
Nursing Research
AHCPR - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, contains
professional information, consumer handout information
EBN - Evidence Based Nursing, online research journal
NurseLinx - Current articles from medical and nursing journals
Surgery
AORN - Association of periOperative Registered Nurses
Trauma
CDC - Trauma Mass Preparedness and Response Page
WHO
This site will have links to critical care issues. To the left you can click on the "Give a Review" button and give us a review of a critical care article you've read. Click on the link below to read about ICU issues/updates on the Message Board. The site now has a news page that updates daily with the latest healthcare news.
