Day 1 of #7books. Thanks Nadine Abdullah, MD for the nomination! I’m starting off with one of my favorite authors and nominate @DoctorSwenson.

Toronto Western Hospital Critical Care critical care contingent #ATS2019 Laveena Munshi Christie Lee Jenna Spring

This is an absolutely brilliant video by @hypoxicchicken et al Simply gold on how to intubate the ICU patient youtube.com/watch?v=J6yZz3…

A new ICU educational resource for clinicians who may find themselves caring for critically ill patients during the #COVID19 pandemic. A huge thank you to all of our contributors. Please share widely and send us your feedback. Temerty Medicine Toronto Western Hospital Critical Care quickicutraining.com

Preview of one-page ARDS summary. Full version at quickicutraining.com/breathing/pock…. Feedback welcomed and more to come!

Is contrast administration associated with acute #kidney injury in the critically ill? hubs.ly/H0plzR_0 #journalCHEST

Toronto Western Hospital Critical Care Free online mechanical ventilation course from U of T IDCCM starts tonight - already more than 2000 people attending and there's LOTS more space! Thomas Piraino Centre of Excellence in Mechanical Ventilation SMH Critical Care Dr. Niall Ferguson Temerty Medicine University Health Network criticalcare.utoronto.ca/news/basics-me…

Fantastic discussion around management of a high risk airway + potential COVID. Emphasis on teamwork and careful planning to optimize safety for the patient and providers. Thanks for sharing alberto.goffi Vatsal Trivedi Mike Baxter Christopher Hicks

“If, despite our best efforts, we deny a family the opportunity to say goodbye to a loved one, to hold their hand, to stroke their hair, we can’t undo the damage. This is what haunts me this evening, when I should be sleeping.” cmajblogs.com/revisiting-the…

ICU = 911 for the hospital. We should embrace it. Ask, “how can I help?” Sometimes the answer I’d admit to ICU, sometimes not, but we can always be helpful, kind, and point our colleagues and learners in the right direction.

You probably know about the amazing pandemic medical resource quickicutraining.com but now we have the Ontario pandemic medical model plan and iit’s associated curricula and educational resources for all doctors coming to work in ICU- please share! Jenna Spring

🚨Non-COVID alert🚨Check out our latest paper evaluating perspectives on advance care planning for pts w/ HemeMalig published in Annals of the ATS led by Jenna Spring. Great multi-disciplinary/specialty/national collaboration Kathryn Puxty Dr Geeta Mehta 🇨🇦 Michael Detsky atsjournals.org/doi/10.1513/An…

The full WHO living guideline which includes recommendations on corticosteroids, remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir/ritonavir and now ivermectin, available here: who.int/publications/i… And here: bmj.com/content/370/bm…

"I hate the experience of lockdown... But what I hate more is watching what is happening to people who are getting sick." — Dr. Shelly Dev (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Department of Medicine University of Toronto) tonight at 8/11pm with Michael Warner (@mghtoronto) and nam kiwanuka | Producer: Preeti Bhuyan #onhealth #onpoli

Are you an internist or trainee getting ready to help out with ICU patients? This talk is for you. Join me as I provide an evidence based, practical approach to weaning your patients from the ventilator. CSIM

Please check out our COVIDScienceOntario brief: The Incidence, Severity, and Management of COVID-19 in Critically Ill Pregnant Individuals - Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table covid19-sciencetable.ca/sciencebrief/t… Stephen Lapinsky Wendy Whittle. A 🧵below

This is a must read for anyone caring for critically ill pregnant patients with COVID from Stephen Lapinsky and Maha Al Mandhari

Excited to officially share our website: oncicu.com. We hope this will be helpful for anyone involved in the care of acutely ill patients with cancer. Check out our educational resources at oncicu.com/Education/Reso….

Highly recommend this fantastic course to anyone caring for patients with hematologic malignancies in the ICU. Grateful to have had the opportunity to attend!

The specialty of #CriticalCare has achieved important advances in survival for many patients with the most complex disorders. Along with these advances, however, there has been an increasing awareness of the complicated and persistent morbidity that follows critical illness. 1/10