ICU Orientation Reading List

Published Nov 12, 2009

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hello, i am developing a reading list to hand out to new hires and nursing students who are new to critical care to provide a framework/historical background/basis of evidence for many of our common practices. has anyone else here tried to create something like this? of course a reading is inherently controversial in terms of inclusions and omissions and this list is not intended to be perfect or comprehensive, but rather to help get someone new to critical care started off in the right direction of having an evidence based nursing practice. any suggestions for other articles or resources to include in this list would be appreciated. the list (in progress) follows:

thanks in advance for your comments.

glucose control in the icu

nice-sugar study investigators, finfer s, chittock dr, su sy, blair d, foster d, dhingra v, bellomo r, cook d, dodek p, henderson wr, hébert pc, heritier s, heyland dk,mcarthur c, mcdonald e, mitchell i, myburgh ja, norton r, potter j, robinson bg, ronco jj. (2009). intensive versus conventional glucose control in critically ill patients. n engl j med. 26;360(13):1283-97.

van den berghe, g, et al. (2001). intensive insulin therapy in critically ill patients. n. engl. j. med. 345:1359-1367.

therapeutic hypothermia

bernard sa, gray tw, buist md, jones bm, silvester w, gutteridge g, smith k. (2002). treatment of comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with induced hypothermia n engl j med 346:557

hypothermia after cardiac arrest study group. (2002). mild therapeutic hypothermia to improve the neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest. n engl j med. 21;346(8):549-56. http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/346/8/549

sepsis (early goal directed therapy)

dellinger rp, levy mm, carlet jm, et. al. (2008). surviving sepsis campaign: international guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008 [published correction appears in crit care med 2008; 36:1394-1396]. crit care med; 36:296-327.

rivers, e, et al. (2001. early goal-directed therapy in the treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock. n. engl. j. med. 345:1368-1377.

ards - lung protective ventilation

the acute respiratory distress syndrome network. (2000). ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome. n engl j med. 342: 1301-1308

bernard gr, artigas a, brigham kl, et al. (1994) the american european consensus conference on ards: definitions mechanisms, relevant outcomes and clinical trial coordination, am j respir crit care med. 149:818-24.

eichacker pq, gerstenberger ep, banks sm, et al. (2002). meta-analysis of ali and ards trials testing low tidal volumes. am j respir crit care med; 166:1510-4.

best practice bundles

girard t, kress j, fuchs b, et al. (2008). efficacy and safety of paired sedation and ventilator weaning protocol for mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care (awake and breathing controlled trial): a randomized controlled trial. lancet; 371:126-34.

tablan, o. c., anderson, l. j., besser, r., bridges, c., & hajjeh, r. (2004). guidelines for preventing health-care--associated pneumonia, 2003: recommendations of cdc and the healthcare infection control practices advisory committee. mmwr. recommendations and reports: morbidity and mortality weekly report. recommendations and reports / centers for disease control, 53(rr-3), 1-36.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/guidelines.html - a collection of guidelines for the prevention of health care associated infections.

miscellaneous

connors af, speroff t, dawson nv, et al. the effectiveness of right heart catheterization in the initial care of critically ill patients. jama 1996;276:889-897.

gawande, a. the checklist: if something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do? the new yorker. december 10, 2007. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_gawande

useful websites

www.survivingsepsis.org/pages/default.aspx