Maryland Cc Project

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 ...

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 ...