Maryland Cc Project

This is a talk I gave at this month's Critical Care Grand Rounds about the concepts that have driven the development of MarylandCCProject along with our evolution over the past 2 years.  Since the beginning, our goal has been to improve the critical care education at the University of Maryland, as well as show others the great work we are doing here in Baltimore.  I think we've done that.  But we're not finished.

Welcome to a momentous occasion for MCCP. Today we have Dr. Rahul Nanchal, the co-Chair of both the SCCM and ESICM task force on hepatic failure in the ICU; making him one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of liver failure! Dr. Nanchal visits from the Medical College of ...

It’s an unbelievable honor to have Dr. Sam Tisherman come and join our critical care faculty at the Shock Trauma Center and University of Maryland.  Dr. Tisherman is a Professor of Surgery & Critical Care and heavily involved our fellowship education.  He has won numerous education awards, and was inducted ...

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 for hyperbaric oxygen for carbon monoxide exposure?  If not, this is a can’t miss lecture. Written summary by Ahmad Aswad ...

Dr. Daniel Herr is the Chief of Surgical ICU Services and also the Director of our Cardiac Surgery ICU at the University of Maryland.  Dr. Herr is known internationally for his contributions in the management of ICU delirium, but is also an incredible leader.  Adding to our leadership series, Dr. Herr ...

Dr. Deborah Stein is the Chief of Trauma at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Medical Director of the Neurotrauma Intensive Care Unit at STC, and an expert in renal replacement therapy – To be honest that barely touches her level of expertise, and we’re not really sure what she can’t ...

Dr. Munish Goyal is an Emergency Medicine trained Intensivist who has been a leader in resuscitation science over the past decade.  Dr. Goyal is returning to the University of Maryland where he did his fellowship at the Shock Trauma Center to discuss the importance of early, aggressive resuscitation and why he ...

Managing complex patients with ARDS can be challenging.  Many believe the Berlin criteria we use to identify ARDS are largely confounded and often identify the disease too late. Additionally, how do you manage the patient who’s intravascularly depleted but is drowning from pulmonary edema? (Classic – they are wet and dry!!)  What ...

Dr. Burton Lee is BACK!  It’s always an honor to have Dr. Lee return to the US from Kenya and take a break from his critical care clinical and academic duties across the Atlantic Ocean.  This time, Dr. Lee brought with him another thought provoking lecture about ethics in evidence ...

Today we are in for a real treat! We have two of the smartest doctors to ever grace the stage here at the University of Maryland. First you will hear from Dr. Mark Walsh, an Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine physician from Memorial Hospital, deep in Notre Dame territory of South ...

Today we are once again excited to have Dr./LtCol/All-around critical care guru Sam Galvagno. In addition to publishing in multiple major journals, defending the country, maintaining FOUR board certifications, AND maintaining a PhD in Clinical Research; Dr. Galvagno somehow finds time away from his job as Associate Director of the University of ...

Dr. Giora Netzer (@GioraNetzer) is one of our esteemed faculty who is trained in clinical epidemiology as well as pulmonary critical care.  He has done an extensive amount of research in ARDS but also has a passion for how we take care of patient’s families in the ICU.  In this ...

Dr. Sam Galvagno is a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force who is an expert in anesthesia critical care, airway management, critical care education, published in JAMA, and a black belt in Tae Kwon Do to boot. Did I mention he earned a PhD in Clinical Investigation?  This short talk is JAM ...

Dr. Megan Brenner is currently one of the leaders in the development of Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA).  As a trained trauma, critical care, and vascular surgeon Dr. Brenner is actively developing the integration of REBOA here at the Shock Trauma Center and the University of Maryland ...

Carl Shanholtz, MD is medical director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center. After a fellowship in critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University he did further training in Hematology and Oncology at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He specializes in the care of hematologic ...

Lewis Rubinson, MD, PhD is Director of the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland. He recently spent a month in Sierra Leone providing clinical care to patients with Ebola as a WHO consultant. At Kenema Government Hospital, he was one of ...

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 reviews the causes or alcohol withdrawal as well as come of the current treatment strategies.  The second half of this ...