Maryland Cc Project

Dr. Neal Porter is an Assistant Professor of Neurology here at the University of Maryland with a special clinical focus on neurophysiology. Over the last twenty years, Dr Porter has mastered the topic of ICU polyneuromyopathy and has used this knowledge to be one of the national experts in the ...

Dr. Anthony Harris is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland and an expert in infection control as well as epidemiology.  He recently published a paper in JAMA on the effects of universal glove and gown use on antibiotic-resistant bacteria acquisition and colonization in the ICU with some ...

Today we are fortunate to have Avelino Verceles, Associate Professor of Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine here at the University of Maryland as well as acting director and architect of one of the most successful ventilator weaning programs in the Northeast. Over the next hour, Dr. Verceles will explore the devastating ...

Dr Henry Masur is a clinical expert in HIV from the National Institute of Health (NIH) who has published over > 300 peer reviewed publications related to infections and HIV.  We were tremendously lucky to have hime come up to Baltimore and give a really nice review on the history ...

Today we are honored and privileged to have one of the premier minds in the field of critical care epidemiology, Dr. Burton Lee. In addition to his role as program director of the Pulmonary Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Critical Care Fellowship at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Dr. Lee spends a ...

Today we are pleased to welcome Dr. Majid Afshar, one of the newest members of the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at the University of Maryland. Today he was willing to share his tips and tricks to sorting out the handful of good research among the thousands of paper released ...

Dr. Carl Shanholtz was the man of the hour at the University of Maryland Multidisciplinary CC Conference this week, here to discuss his “Plan B – Z” for patients with refractory hypoxia despite your best efforts.  Dr. Shanholtz is one of the few PI’s of the ARDSnet collaboration and shares ...

Today we are fortunate to have Dr. Ashutosh (Ash) Sachdeva, director of the University of Maryland Interventional Pulmonology Service and all around bronchoscopic wizard, to speak to us on his passion: how to save a failing airway. Over the next 60 minutes, Dr. Sachdeva will walk you through three procedures he ...

This week, Dr. Bryan Hayes – Clinical Pharmacologist and expert in Toxicology gives an amazing talk highlighting 10 of his top tips for antimicrobial use in the emergency department & for the critically ill patient.  This is probably one of the most clinically useful lectures I’ve listened to in a ...

We were fortunate to have Dr. Megan Graybill Anders, anesthesiologist extraordinaire and all around critical care expert. For today’s lecture, Dr. Anders will walk the audience through those tense several days when a pregnant patient finds herself in the ICU. Even the simplest septic work-up can hit a snag when ...

Dr. Manjari Joshi is an expert in infectious diseases who works at the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, and specializes in battling the rages of hospital associated infections as well as convincing us all that the infiltrate on the chest x-ray is obviously not an infection – and that we ...

Dr. Devang Patel currently serves as Chief of Infectious Disease for the MICU here at the University of Maryland. Today he was was gracious enough to speak on invasive fungal infections not only here in the continental US, but also reliant on his experience working at the University of Zambi HIV program, where being ...

We were fortunate to have Dr. Michael Chansky, Professor & Chair of Emergency Medicine at Cooper University Hospital and a member of the Master Educator’s Guild come down to the University of Maryland to teach about Acid-Base disorders.  Dr. Chansky loves Acid-Base problems so much that he actually sleeps with ...

This week’s lecture was an introduction to the Left Ventricular Assist Device given by Dr. Gautam Ramani.  In this talk Dr. Ramani discusses the fundamentals in deciding which patients should be considered for VAD placement, the different types of VADs, and finally spends the remainder of his time discussing the ...

Today we have the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Megan Graybill Anders, a new addition to the Maryland Anesthesiology-Critical Care department and all-around airway guru! Over the last year, she has started an initiative to tag all surgical airways with a simple “How-to guide” in regards to handling any and all disasters. ...

Dr. Brandon Bruns is an Assistant Professor of Surgery here at the University of Maryland and did a large amount of his training at University of Texas Southwestern, home of Parkland Memorial Hospital and the Parkland formula.  Who better to ask to come talk to us about Burn Management in ...

Today we have Dr. Fermin F. Barrueto, Clinical Associate Professor of EM here at U-Maryland and all-around tox guru, to share his wisdom on the topic of critical care toxicology. Over the last 10 years Dr. Barrueto has seen nearly every type of poisoning as head of our medical toxicology consult service. Over ...

Welcome back to ECMOvember at MarylandCCProject.org.  This is a presentation that was given at the 2013 American Academy of Emergency Medicine’s Scientific Assembly on the utility of extracorporeal life support and its emerging role in the treatment of cardiac arrest & refractory cardiogenic shock.  Do you know the difference between ...

Welcome to the first posting of ECMOvember!! Our hope is that over the next several weeks we can take you through a journey to not only introduce the process of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, but perhaps to just make the world of critical care just a little more ECMO-centric…. We start ...

Today we are fortunate to have Dr. Sammy Zakaria, Assistant Director of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and overall cardiac critical care guru. He will discuss his take on the basics of cardiogenic shock and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Over the next 60 minutes you will learn not only ...