Maryland Cc Project

Marc Zubrow is the Vice-President of Telehealth and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. As Medical Director of eCare at the University of Maryland Medical Center, he has specialized expertise in the burgeoning field of critical care telemedicine. Take a listen as Dr. Zubrow ...

Greetings again from ECMOVember 2014!! Here is another lecture I gave at a recent ECMO training course. Today we have a picturesque look at the times when ECMO doesn’t go as planned…. My goal is that in 20 minutes I can show you that with some planning and prevention most of the ECMO-whoas ...

Welcome to ECMOvember 2014!! Apologies for the late start, but I think you will agree the wait was worth it! Today we have a talk that I gave at the San Antonio Military Medical Center (SAMMC) ECMO conference just one week previous. I will argue that the use of Extracorporeal ...

Dr. Amado Alejandro Baez is the Emergency Medicine Program Director at the Jackson Memorial Hospital/ University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and has published extensively in Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Critical Care. He is a rock star – in fact, one of his research collaboratives is the ACDC project ...

Today we are fortunate to have the combined mental powers of two of the greatest minds in the field of therapeutic hypothermia. First you will hear from Nirav Shah, Assistant Professor of Medicine and current Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Maryland. Using ...

Dr. Sanjay Desai is the Director of the Osler Medical Training Program at Johns Hopkins University as well as an intensivist who has mastered the art of ventilator waveform analysis.  Over the next 45 minutes, Dr. Desai channels his inner Osler into an epic test of wits in this weeks core ...

Dr. Klaus Gorlinger is one of the leading international experts in the management of coagulopathy and has dedicated his career to perfecting the art & science of hemostatic resuscitation.  One of his major fields of expertise is the use of Point of Care (POC) guided algorithms for goal directed coagulopathy management.  Dr. Gorlinger is now the ...

Dr Devang Patel is a member of the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and works currently as the Chief of Service for the MICU ID team. In addition to his vast expertise in the developed world, Dr. Patel has worked with ...

Dr. Stephen Trzeciak is a world renowned research and clinical expert in the management of sepsis and post-cardiac arrest care.  A large amount of his work has been incorporated into the Surviving Sepsis campaign as well as a research network that studies the critical interventions that are made from  the time ...

Dr. Ron Tesoriero, Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery & Associate Program Director of the Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship at UMMC & Shock Trauma has has a thing or two to say about acute pancreatitis. These patients are by far some of the sickest in our ...

Dr. Kim Boswell is an Emergency Medicine trained intensivist who not only works in the ED but takes care of some of the sickest patients at the University of Maryland in our Cardiac Surgery ICU.  We were lucky to have Dr. Boswell come to discuss the intricacies of managing patients ...

Sweet!  You just graduated from your Critical Care fellowship and landed a great job in the community.  No more PGY paychecks or 80+ hour work weeks.  Things are looking up!  But after showing up for your first day, you quickly realize things are MUCH different than when you worked at ...

Giora Netzer (@GioraNetzer) is one of those “evidence-based medicine” guys, who has an obsession with transplant medicine – to be more specific – blood transfusion strategies in the ICU.  What are the actual transfusion risks in the modern era of blood transfusions? What are your “transfusion triggers”?  Should we be ...

Congrats!  You saved your patient from their critical illness – but do you know what happens to them after they leave your ICU?  Well, if not – you might be shocked to find out. This week we were lucky enough to have Dr. Dale Needham come and discuss how he ...

Dr. Nader Habashi is a master of all things APRV. What’s the evidence for APRV? Should APRV be used as a preventative mode of mechanical ventilation in patients at risk for ARDS rather than a salvage mode? In this review Dr. Habashi will give an overview of APRV, it’s role ...

About a month ago, a young woman by the name of Angela Knight reached out to let us to let us know that she believes the use of the thrombelastogram (TEG) saved her life.  We were intrigued to say the least. Angela was preparing to give birth to her second ...

Dr. Roy Brower is one of the original ARDSnet authors that brought Low Tidal-Volume ventilation to the masses.  We asked him to speak his mind on what he thinks we should do once the traditional ARDSnet goals no longer apply. Evidence behind ARDSnet protocol and beyond EXPRESS PEEP Trial Raise PEEP until ...

Today we are pleased to welcome a very prestigious guest: Dr. Mary Njoku, owner of the M. Jane Matjasko Professorship for Education in Anesthesiology, the current director of the University of Maryland Anesthesiology Residency Program, and currently acting as the Vice Chair of Education at the University of Maryland School of ...

Dr. Burton Lee returns to MarylandCCProject to discuss the second half of his deeper dive into numeracy of the medical literature (“deep dive” is a bit of a stretch for him, but for us – there’s fractions involved…. FRACTIONS)!  All kidding aside, we are always grateful to spend time with ...

Today we are lucky to have Dr. Manjari Joshi, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at both the University of Maryland SOM and the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. For today’s lecture, Dr. Joshi will take us through the chaotic world of antibiotic use in critical care patients. She will show us ...