Maryland Cc Project

This is hopefully the first of many lectures we will be able to post from Dr. Nirav Shah – master of all things vent related.  In this lecture Dr. Shah discusses ventilator waveform analysis.  Do you know there are 3 forms of iatragenic lung injury that can be caused by ...

We were incredibly lucky to have the eminent Dr. Thomas Scalea – Francis X. Kelly Professor of Trauma Surgery & Physician-in-Chief at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center – come to the University of Maryland’s Multidisciplinary Critical Care Conference.  Dr. Scalea is a world renowned expert in Trauma Critical Care ...

The academic debate surrounding the strengths & weaknesses of the CRASH 2 trial & TEG has been heating up.  Dr. Walsh’s comments have been met with both contention and praise… either way, an educated discussion is always welcomed here at MarylandCCProject.org.  We were fortunate enough to have the master of EMCRIT.org ...

Some great questions came out of Dr. Mark Walsh’s lecture on TEG, so we decided to go straight to the source and pick the HUMONGOUS brain of Dr. Walsh and get his thoughts on the CRASH-2 trial.  In this 15 minute review, Dr. Walsh will make you reconsider what you ...

Dr. Mayur Narayan is a trauma intensivist who has a special interest in the development of trauma systems, especially in underdeveloped countries.  In this talk Dr. Narayan discusses the challenges to developing an efficient trauma system, the basics to trauma care, and some of the recent advancements in taking care ...

Dr. Munish Goyal comes to us all the way from downtown DC, where at the Georgetown University School of Medicine he acts as Director of Emergency Intensive Care and Associate Program Director for the Pulm/Critical Care Fellowship. Using his positions in both the Emergency Department and the Pulmonary and Critical Care department, ...

When not acting as Chief of Surgical Critical care services and Director of the Cardiac Surgery Unit at the University of Maryland, Dr. Dan Herr finds time to be a world renown expert in ICU delirium! His knowledge and experience on the topic has brought him invites to speak all ...

One of the leading experts in the use of thromboelastography (TEG) is Dr. Mark Walsh from South Bend, Indiana.  We were fortunate enough to have Dr. Walsh come all the way from Notre Dame to Baltimore and discuss the role of TEG in trauma and hemorrhagic shock.  Incorporating TEG into ...

Dr. Deborah Stein returns for another core content lecture, this time giving a crash course on hemodialysis, CRRT, CVVH, CVVHD, and a number of other concepts about managing acute renal failure in the ICU.  For this lecture, Dr. Stein went “old school” and brought us back to the greaseboard.  This ...

Dr. Michael Winters returns to discuss IV Fluid resuscitation in the critically ill patient.  Should we abandon Normal Saline? What other options are available?  What is a balanced fluid, and which patient might benefit from a fluid with a lower SID? Learn the answers, and become an expert in one ...

Dr. Michael Winters is an Associate Professor in both Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine at the University of Maryland.  He is an internationally known speaker in the area of critical care specifically in the Emergency Department setting and an amazing clinician as well.  We were fortunate enough to have Dr. ...