Maryland Cc Project

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 ...

This is hopefully the first of many lectures we will be able to post from Dr. Nirav Shah – master of all things vent related.  In this lecture Dr. Shah discusses ventilator waveform analysis.  Do you know there are 3 forms of iatragenic lung injury that can be caused by ...

We were incredibly lucky to have the eminent Dr. Thomas Scalea – Francis X. Kelly Professor of Trauma Surgery & Physician-in-Chief at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center – come to the University of Maryland’s Multidisciplinary Critical Care Conference.  Dr. Scalea is a world renowned expert in Trauma Critical Care ...

The academic debate surrounding the strengths & weaknesses of the CRASH 2 trial & TEG has been heating up.  Dr. Walsh’s comments have been met with both contention and praise… either way, an educated discussion is always welcomed here at MarylandCCProject.org.  We were fortunate enough to have the master of EMCRIT.org ...

Some great questions came out of Dr. Mark Walsh’s lecture on TEG, so we decided to go straight to the source and pick the HUMONGOUS brain of Dr. Walsh and get his thoughts on the CRASH-2 trial.  In this 15 minute review, Dr. Walsh will make you reconsider what you ...

Dr. Mayur Narayan is a trauma intensivist who has a special interest in the development of trauma systems, especially in underdeveloped countries.  In this talk Dr. Narayan discusses the challenges to developing an efficient trauma system, the basics to trauma care, and some of the recent advancements in taking care ...

Dr. Munish Goyal comes to us all the way from downtown DC, where at the Georgetown University School of Medicine he acts as Director of Emergency Intensive Care and Associate Program Director for the Pulm/Critical Care Fellowship. Using his positions in both the Emergency Department and the Pulmonary and Critical Care department, ...

When not acting as Chief of Surgical Critical care services and Director of the Cardiac Surgery Unit at the University of Maryland, Dr. Dan Herr finds time to be a world renown expert in ICU delirium! His knowledge and experience on the topic has brought him invites to speak all ...

One of the leading experts in the use of thromboelastography (TEG) is Dr. Mark Walsh from South Bend, Indiana.  We were fortunate enough to have Dr. Walsh come all the way from Notre Dame to Baltimore and discuss the role of TEG in trauma and hemorrhagic shock.  Incorporating TEG into ...

Dr. Deborah Stein returns for another core content lecture, this time giving a crash course on hemodialysis, CRRT, CVVH, CVVHD, and a number of other concepts about managing acute renal failure in the ICU.  For this lecture, Dr. Stein went “old school” and brought us back to the greaseboard.  This ...