Top Critical Care Guidelines

Neuro

  1. Carney. Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Fourth Edition. Neurosurgery 2016;epublished September 22nd  (Executive Summary)
  2. Barr. Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adult Patients in the Intensive Care Unit. Crit Care Med 2013; 41:263–306

Circulatory

  1. Sandroni. Prognostication in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest: An advisory statement from the European Resuscitation Council and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Intensive Care Med 2014;epublished November 15th
  2. Cecconi. Consensus on circulatory shock and hemodynamic monitoring. Task force of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Intensive Care Med 2014;epublished November 13th
  3. Windecker. 2014 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization.  Eur Heart J 2014;epublished August 29th
  4. 2014 ESC/ESA Guidelines on non-cardiac surgery: cardiovascular assessment and management.  Eur Heart J 2014;epublished August 1st
  5. Fleisher. 2014 ACC/AHA Guideline on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation and Management of Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Circulation 2014;epublished August 1st
  6. McKelvie. The 2012 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Heart Failure Management Guidelines Update: Focus on Acute and Chronic Heart Failure. Canadian Journal of Cardiology 2013;29:168–181
  7. ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation: The Task Force on the management of ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Eur Heart J 2012 epublished 24 August 2012
  8. 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol 2012 epublished December 17th
  9. 2012 ACCF/AHA Focused Update of the Guideline for the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina/Non–ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (Updating the 2007 Guideline and Replacing the 2011 Focused Update): A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol 2012;60(7):645-681

Respiratory

  1. International ERS/ESICM/ESCMID/ALAT guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia. Eur Respir J 2017;50(3):1700582
  2. Konstantinides. 2014 ESC Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism.  Eur Heart J 2014;epublished August 29th
  3. Camargo. Managing Asthma Exacerbations in the Emergency Department Summary of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Expert Panel Report 3 Guidelines for the Management of Asthma Exacerbations. Proc Am Thorac Soc Vol 6. pp 357–366, 2009
  4. British Thoracic Society Guidelines on Management of Asthma 2009

GI

  1. Tenner. American College of Gastroenterology Guideline: Management of Acute Pancreatitis. Am J Gastroenterol 2013;108:1400-1415
  2. Kirkpatrick. Intra-abdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome: updated consensus definitions and clinical practice guidelines from the World Society of the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome. Intensive Care Med 2013;39(7):1190-1206

Nutrition

  1. Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Adult Critically Ill Patient: Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 2016;40(2):159-211

Hepatic

  1. Lee. American Association for the Study of Liver Disease Position Paper: The Management of Acute Liver Failure: Update 2011
  2. European Association for the Study of the Liver clinical practice guidelines on the management of ascites, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, and hepatorenal syndrome in cirrhosis. Journal of Hepatology 2010;53:397–417 
  3. European Association for the Study of the Liver Clinical Practical Guidelines: Management of Alcoholic Liver Disease. Journal of Hepatology2012;57:2:399-420

Renal

  1. KDIGO Clinical Practice Guidelines for Acute Kidney Injury. Kidney International Supplements 2012;2:1
  2. Spasovski. Clinical practice guideline on diagnosis and treatment of hyponatraemia. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2014;0:1–39

Haem

  1. Retter. Guidelines on the management of anaemia and red cell transfusion in adult critically ill patients. British Committee for Standards in Haematology. Br J Haematol 2013;160(4):445-64  
  2. National Patient Blood Authority of Australia. Patient Blood Management Guidelines: Module 4 Critical Care; epublished April 5th 2013
  3. Napolitano et al. American College of Critical Care Medicine of the Society of Critical Care Medicine; Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Practice Management Workgroup: Clinical practice guideline: red blood cell transfusion in adult trauma and critical care. Crit Care Med 2009, 37:3124-3157

Sepsis

  1. Dellinger. Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2012. Crit Care Med 2013;41:580–637
  2. Ebola Resources & Guidelines

Trauma

  1. Rossaint. The European guideline on management of major bleeding and coagulopathy following trauma: fourth edition. Critical Care 2016;20:100

Miscellaneous

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  1. ISBI Practice Guidelines for Burn Care. Burns 2016;42:953-1021
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  1. Core Standards for the ICU 2013 - Intensive Care Society
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  1. Menon. Mental Capacity Act 2005 - Guidance for Critical Care. Intensive Care Society

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