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Critical Care
- Overviews
- Treatment
- Coping
- Disease Management
- Specific Conditions
- Related Issues
- Clinical Trials
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Organizations
- Statistics
- Children
Overviews
- Overviews
- Critical Care Questions (Society of Critical Care Medicine)
- JAMA Patient Page: Intensive Care Units (American Medical Association)
- Primer on Critical Care for Patients and Their Families (American Thoracic Society)
Treatment
- Treatment
- End of Life Choices - Feeding Tubes and Ventilators (Family Caregiver Alliance)
Also available in: Spanish
Coping
- Coping
- Taking Care of Yourself While a Loved One Is in the ICU (Society of Critical Care Medicine) - Links to PDF
- When a Loved One Needs Critical Care (American Association of Critical-Care Nurses) - Links to PDF
Disease Management
- Disease Management
- Mechanical Ventilation: Beyond the Intensive Care Unit (American College of Chest Physicians)
Specific Conditions
- Specific Conditions
- Common Problems of Critical Illness (Society of Critical Care Medicine) - Links to PDF
- Critical Care Team (Society of Critical Care Medicine)
- How Will I Be Monitored after Heart Surgery? (American Heart Association) - Links to PDF
- JAMA Patient Page: Assisted Breathing (American Medical Association)
- Participating in Care: What Questions Should I Ask? (Society of Critical Care Medicine) - Links to PDF
- What Are My Choices Regarding Life Support? (Society of Critical Care Medicine) - Links to PDF
- What Happens After Heart Surgery?
(American Heart Association) - Links to PDF - What Is ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome)? (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
- Why Do ICU Patients Look and Act That Way? (Society of Critical Care Medicine) - Links to PDF
Related Issues
- Related Issues
- History of Critical Care (Society of Critical Care Medicine)
- Respiratory Failure (Merck & Co., Inc.)
Clinical Trials
- Clinical Trials
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Ventilators, Mechanical (National Institutes of Health)
Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Glossary of Critical Care Terms (Society of Critical Care Medicine)
Statistics
- Statistics
- Trauma, Burn, Shock, and Injury: Facts and Figures (National Institute of General Medical Sciences)
Children
- Children
- Caring for a Child Dependent on Medical Technology (Nemours Foundation)
- Introduction to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) (University of Wisconsin Medical School, Dept. of Pediatrics)
- What Is a Neonatologist? (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- What Is a Pediatric Critical Care Specialist? (American Academy of Pediatrics) - Links to PDF
- When Your Baby's in the NICU (Nemours Foundation)
- When Your Child's in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (Nemours Foundation)
Also available in: Spanish