Reed – Strategies for Treating Diuretic Resistance
Dr. Brent Reed, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy presents “Blood From a Stone: Strategies for Treating Diuretic Resistance.”
Pharm/Toxicology
Heavner – Alcohol withdrawal management in the ICU
Mojdeh S. Heavner, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, Assistant Professor, Critical Care, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the U of Maryland School of Pharmacy and Jason J. Heavner, M.D., Chair, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center, present the weekly multi-departmental critical care fellows’ lecture on “Advances in Protocol-Driven Management of Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome in the ICU.”
King: Poisonings treated (and caused) by the ICU!
Today we welcome Josh D King, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine where he also serves as the associate program director for the nephrology fellowship program. Dr. King is a rare specimen, with board certifications in both Nephrology and Toxicology he focuses on critical care nephrology, acute treatment of drug overdoses, and addressing acute poisoning and envenomation. In addition to his clinical work, Dr King is a prolific academician, publishing numerous journal articles on the topic of acute care toxicology. Today he was kind enough to travel up Interstate 95 and donate an hour of his time to explain what we HAVE TO KNOW if we plan to work in the modern ICU!
Heavner: Pharmacokinetic & pharmacodynamic changes in critically ill patients
Today we welcome Mojdeh Saba Heavner, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCCCP. Dr. Heavner is an assistant professor here at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and a clinical pharmacy specialist in the UMMC MICU. She recently came back to us after a Critical Care & Transplant Specialty Pharmacy Residency at Yale, where she was voted the BEST Pharmacist in Connecticut. Now she is shaking things up here on MICU daily rounds and has revolutionized the care of our patients. So if you want to avoid the brow beating from your own pharmacist every morning, I highly suggest you listen to this lecture twice!!
Lewin- Reversal agents in ICH, What you need to know!
Today we welcome one of the gurus in anti-coagulant reversal, John J. Lewin. Dr. Lewin recently published one of the recent landmark articles in the field of Neurocritical care: “Guideline for Reversal of Antithrombotics in Intracranial Hemorrhage”. Today he is gracious enough to spend 60 minutes with us, and not a second can be missed if you EVER expect to take care of a patient with a head bleed on AC!!
Chawla: Vasopressors- Time to target new receptors?
Today we are very excited to host Dr. Lakhmir S. Chawla, nephrologist, intensivist, and international expert on the management of shock. Dr. Chawla has recently taken a sabbatical from his position as Professor of Critical Care Medicine, George Washington U to become the Chief Medical Officer of La Jolla Pharmaceuticals. It in this role he investigates an old and forgotten friend in the treatment of hypotension, and has become the chief researcher for the ATHOS (Angiotensin II for the Treatment of High-Output Shock) 3 trial. Today he takes a fascinating look at the way we treat shock-induced hypotension and asks one simple question: Can’t we do better?
Kim – Toxic Hemoglobinopathies
Dr. Hong Kim is back – this time to discuss two classic hemoglobinopathies. Do you you know the common iatragenic causes of methemoglobinemia? How about when to send a patient
Hong Kim – Alcohol Withdrawal and Cyanide Toxicity
Dr. Hong Kim is an emergency medicine trained toxicologist who also trained in New York city at the famed Bellevue toxicology program. In this week’s core content lecture, Dr. Kim
ICU Toxicology: Lethal poisonings and ODs – How to best manage them
Today we have Dr. Fermin F. Barrueto, Clinical Associate Professor of EM here at U-Maryland and all-around tox guru, to share his wisdom on the topic of critical care toxicology. Over the last
