Educational posts, organized by topic
Jonathan Chow, MD, Assistant Professor and Director, Critical Care Fellowship in the Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Maryland SOM presents the weekly multi-departmental critical care fellows’ lecture on “When All Else Fails – Rescue Medications for Vasodilatory Shock.”
Amitabh Chandra, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of Maryland SOM and Chief of Emergency Medicine at UMMC – Midtown Campus, presents the weekly multi-departmental critical care fellows’ lecture on “RUSH ultrasound exam.”
James O’Connor, M.D., FACS, FCCP, Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery at the University of Maryland SOM; Chief, Thoracic and Vascular Trauma at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center/UMMC; and Executive Medical Director at Shock Trauma Associates, P.A., presents the weekly multi-departmental critical care fellows’ lecture on “Thoracic Complications of Trauma: Empyema, Hemothorax, Bronchopleural Fistula.”
Justin Richards, MD, Assistant Professor and Fellowship & Education Director, Division of Trauma Anesthesiology at the University of Maryland SOM, presents the weekly multi-departmental critical care fellows’ lecture on “Plasma Based Resuscitation: Should we pamper our critically ill patients?”
Lewis Rubinson, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Program in Trauma, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland SOM and Vice President & Deputy Chief Clinical Officer at UMMC, presents the weekly multi-departmental critical care fellows’ lecture on “Status Asthmaticus.”
Edward Pickering, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at University of Maryland SOM and Director, Interventional Pulmonology at Baltimore VAMC, presents the weekly multi-departmental critical care fellows’ lecture on “Evaluation and Management of Hemoptysis: From a Trickle to Projectile.”
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.”
Dr. David Hager, MD, PHD, Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine presents on “Vitamin C in Sepsis: Rationale for the VICTAS Trial.”
Summary by Erik Manninen, MD Breathing is exercise: *Spontaneous breathing can have such high metabolic demand that gut ischemia can even be precipitated. Weaning from mechanical ventilation is a cardiac
