MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'icu medicine'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:00:25 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3831355&cid=t_397780_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Ficu-bingo-game%2F2010.08.06 Ever wonder how ICU nurses get through their daily grind? Why, with ICU Bingo, of course. How does ICU Bingo work? It works just like regular bingo. Every nurse receives their own Bingo card with different ICU diagnoses. And every time they take care of one of these conditions, they get to ”x” it out. Fill out a line or any other predetermined design pattern, and you are the ICU Bingo winner, and you win a prize. This is quite similar to my 2010 March Madness Hospitalist Bracket, only in this case the game is Bingo. As you can see, this nurse has already cared for a GI bleed, a homeless man, a drug overdose, chest pain, DKA, alcohol withrawal, subdural hematoma, a prisoner, and someone with super-morbid obesity. That’s ICU medicine for you. *This blog post... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3831355 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:30:00 +0100 3831355 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2211699&cid=t_397780_83_f&fid=36527&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcutonthedottedline.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F02%2F23%2Fsome-pet-peeves%2F Another part of my role as a junior resident, rather than an intern, is to handle consults from the medical ICUs. There is always a constant stream of these: mesenteric ischemia in patients who’ve been hypotensive for too long for whatever reason (MI, sepsis); toxic C diff; upper and lower GI bleeds which elude medical management. The consults themselves are not so bad. The patients are usually intubated, which means one simply examines them, and then collects data from the chart, and calls the attending. The part that’s driving me crazy are the MICU residents and nurses. The surgery residents have a saying: if you get paged with a stat consult from the MICU, it’s probably nothing important, and you can take your time getting there. If, on the other hand, you receive cas... Cut On The Dotted Line blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2211699 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:22:40 +0100 2211699 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1597117&cid=t_397780_83_f&fid=36527&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcutonthedottedline.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F07%2F08%2Ftribal-conflicts%2F Dr. Drackman must be the most irreverent writer extant in the blogosphere, and I know I am going to get in trouble with someone for saying this, but I can’t help linking admiringly to this story. Read it for yourself, I don’t want to give away the punchline. . . . ok, got it? That kind of thing (free air in a MICU patient diagnosed on chest xray taken for line placement) is the reason I’ve started to make a point of checking the abdomen and the feet of every patient I see, whether surgical or medical, regardless of the reason I’m there. Consultation for thyroid mass? We’ll include an abdominal exam to rule out masses or rigidity, and a pedal exam to make sure the pulses are palpable. I’ve seen too many patients with acute cholecystitis diagnosed after th... Cut On The Dotted Line blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1597117 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:35:59 +0100 1597117 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1097713&cid=t_397780_99_f&fid=35344&url=http%3A%2F%2Fzackarysholemberger.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F12%2Fsemper-septic-its-damn-inevitability-of.html Semper septicIt's the damn inevitability of sepsis in the ICU which is so tragic and frustrating. It's like every patient's story has the same ending. (Source: Zackary Sholem Berger) Zackary Sholem Berger blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1097713 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:43:00 +0100 1097713