Which Category? 
or just scroll thorough the listings below

     Clincal Discussions

     Ethics

     Resources

 


Clinical

COMPLICATED ARDS CASE 

Lorazepam and midazolam in the intensive care unit: A randomized, prospective, multi center study of hemodynamics, oxygen transport, efficacy and cost

Back from the Brink: Recovery from PVS .

Capnography in the ICU: Boon or boondoggle

Crystaloid vs. Colloid in the ICU

David Ryon resurrects CPR guidelines

Peri-death Critical Choices in CCM: Baby vs. Mother

The Darwin Chronicles: Enter all preconceived notions all who enter here!

WHEN IS DEAD DEAD

Yet another discussion on wet vs. Dry for the norm in fluid balance

Intracranial Pressure Increase and what to do about it

An Intubation Horror Story

Critical Care and Jehovahs Witness blood restrictions

Mike Darwin on Liquid Ventilation Conference Report

Ethics of lying in the CIU

CCM-L CASE STUDY 6-4-95 From Ken Mattox

Oral narcotic analgesics in critical care

Critical Pathways and Critical Care

Critical Pathways take a circuitous route on CCM-L

SCCM analgesia and sedation recommendations

Discourse on Shock in Critical Care Medicine

Echoing an Intra-aortic balloon pump by helicopter Break out the shovels

Valium (diazepam) as a sedative for the ICU

CCM-L Case History 8-1-95 The Wild Man from Borneo

back to categories

 

 


Ethics

ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION DONOR DILEMMA

Resource Utilization by manipulative intent: contrived access by illegal aliens

rare book discussion List concerning business ethics

The law and clinical death in the ICU

Rights and responsibilities when impaired in an ICU

Family problems in the ICU A daughters dilemma

Discussion on Euthanasia

Physicians as expert witnesses in medical malpractice trials

Malcolm Fisher goes walkabout on medical ethics

Future The times, they are a changin' and I'm wondering where we in critical care are headed in the next ten years

A meandering discourse on the ethics of HIV testing

Informed Consent in the ICU

Days of Future Passed

Jewish Ethics

Continuation of a previous thread on dealing with religious groups willing to accept certain death rather than violate their interpretation of scriptural prohibitions.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF NEW ZEALAND UNDER THE DECLARATORY JUDGMENTS ACT 1908 IN THE MATTER of X and Sections 151 and 164 of the Crimes Act 1961

Futility, Frustration and Sacrificial Lambs

A CCM-L EXTRA INTERVIEW WITH THE ATTORNEY (Re Futile resuscitation).

CCM-L Journal Club 9-18-95 Colleagues defend doctor who cut off wrong leg

More on Law vs. Medicine Interface and liability for medical informaion on the Internet.

Life on the Streets A Moral Dilemma Presented by David Crippen

AIDS and Futility A right now practical exercise

The role of critical care nurses in euthanasia and assisted suicide. Asch DA New England Journal of Medicine 1996;3341374-9.

Get out of my Emergency Room Competency and substituted judgement in critical care. Presented by David Crippen

Allowing relatives to view ACLS resuscitation in the ICU

More than skin deep an embryonic dilemma.

International Health Care Providers' Opinions on Medical Futility as Assessed by an Internet Poll

Hopeless is as Hopeless does Open ended terminal illness

Terminality

Subject To be or not to be, that is the question

The tale of the conjoined twins

Brain death and uncooperative families

Unilateral No-Resusciate Orders in the ICU

On the poltics of tobacco and the economy

More discussion on Jehovah's Witnesses and blood

back to categories

 

 


Resources

Ethical dilemma in an ALS (Amylotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)

ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION DONOR DILEMMA

David Crippen takes care of business in the ICU

Cost effectiveness of Critical Care Medicine

Dueling references Presented by David Crippen

The State of Critical Care Medicine in 1998 A critical Care Physician's Opinion by David Crippen, MD, FCCM

Thomas Bleck sends a bill to CCM-L

HMO dispositions, nurse shortages and acuity of illness in the ICU

Would you go to medical school again if you had it to do over

Nurse Practitioners and Critical Care

The effectiveness of right heart catheterization in the initial care of critically ill patients.

Quality assurance and money in the ICU

Michael A. Rie The Oregonian ICU Multi-Tiered Monetarized Morality in Health Insurance Law. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 23 (1995) 149-66.

Smoke Journal of the American Medical Association July 19,1995. Entire issue.

SUPPORT Principle Investigators. A concentrated trial to improve care for seriously ill hospitalized patients JAMA 1995 274 1591-1598.

Possible impact of welfare changes on medical care in the USA

Managed care in critical care medicine Role of administrative cost cutting.

Workloads in Medical Education Role of administrative cost cutting.

CCM-L CASE STUDIES FOR JULY, 1995

 

back to categories

Design concept by Dr. David Crippen