Helpful Information for the CCU and other Critical Care Units

i decided to start a thread with helpful information in the ccu. here are a few links to websites that i think ya'll will find very helpful:




www.icufaqs.org excellent all around


http://www.cvphysiology.com/ cardiovascular physiology

http://connection.lww.com/products/smeltzer10e/ch27.asp management of patients with dysrhythmias and conduction problems

http://www.bostonscientific.com/proc...1002/seo.serve cardiac, kidney, urology, vascular, lung/airway, gyn, disgestive disorders, cancer, brain conditions and chronic pain information

http://www.ekgusa.com/ceol/abgmap/abgindex.html abg tutorial

http://realnurseed.com/abg.htm abg tutorial self-learning

http://www.ccmtutorials.com/rs/intubate/in_vent3.htm - the patient in respiratory distress

http://www.txai.org/edu/education.htm texas arrhythmia institute

http://www.gwc.maricopa.edu/class/bi...art/cardio.htm cyberheart, cardiotutorials

http://breeze.mc.maricopa.edu/p65735599/ - cardiac dysrhythmias: an online presentation

http://www.12leadecg.com/intro/ - introduction to 12-lead ecg, the art of interpretation


http://www.ccmtutorials.com/rs/intubate/in_vent4.htm - to intubate or not

http://www.ccmtutorials.com/rs/index.htm critical care and ventilators


http://www.jicu.de/besim/ vent simulator (free demo)

icu/ccu procedures


http://www.openheartsurgery.com/heart_murmur.html normal heart sounds, aortic insufficiency, aortic stenosis, mitral insufficiency, mitral stenosis

http://sprojects.mmi.mcgill.ca/mvs/ the virtual sethoscope

http://www.wilkes.med.ucla.edu/intro.html heart and breath sounds

http://www.stethographics.com/main/p...roduction.html basic lung and heart sounds

http://www.rale.ca/ breath sounds

([color=#003399]http://www.emory.edu/whscl/grady/inetgrp/hplung.html) .. lung sounds from emory school of medicine


blaufuss multimedia - heart sounds and cardiac arrhythmias

http://sprojects.mmi.mcgill.ca/dir/heart.html myocardial infarction ecg tutorial

http://homepage.mac.com/edutainment/photoalbum6.html ecg tracings

http://www.ecglibrary.com/ecghome.html cardiac tracings - advanced

http://www.cardiacmonitors.com/reference_sheets.pdf - personal quick reference sheets from rapid interpretation of ekg’s by dale dubin, md


http://themdsite.com/ website by dr. dale dubin, author "rapid interpretation of ekg's"


www.randylarson.com ecg's - mock codes


http://www.mdchoice.com/cyberpt/acls/acls.asp acls scenerios

http://www.skillstat.com/learn.htm learning

http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/ecg/index.html ecg learning center

http://www.rnceus.com/course_frame.a...&directory=ekg ecg strip identification and evaluation

http://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/ekg/ekg.html ecg

www.ecgsim.org - interactive simulation program

http://www.ecglibrary.com/ ecg library

http://sprojects.mmi.mcgill.ca/dir/ekg_puz.html - super ekg puzzler - 215 rhythm strips to diagnosis—includes the answers- click on "go to this site now" to enter the quizzing from mcgill university molson medical informatics student projects site

http://butler.cc.tut.fi/~malmivuo/bem/bembook/19/19.htm the basis of ecg diagnosis

http://www.medi-smart.com/tutorials.htm medical patient simulators and tutorials from medi-smart

www.skillstat.com/home2.htm ecg recognition with time limit

http://medi-smart.com/card-demo.htm ecg strips with time limit

http://www.icumedicus.com/casesgalle...oto=10&album=4 icu case of the week

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/e...cle/001101.htm - arrhythmias from medlineplus

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we can add to the list as we go along.