Critical Care

Children

1.	When Your Child's in the Pediatric Intensive Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/parent/system/ill/picu.html




2.	When Your Baby's in the NICU Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/parent/system/ill/nicu_caring.html




3.	What Is a Pediatric Critical Care Specialist? American Academy of Pediatrics http://www.aap.org/sections/critcare/WhatisaCritCareDoc.pdf




4.	What Is a Neonatologist? American Academy of Pediatrics http://www.medem.com/medlb/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZCIGME8GD&sub_...




5.	Caring for a Child Dependent on Medical Technology Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/parent/system/ill/machine.html




6.	Introduction to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ( University of Wisconsin Medical School, Dept. of Pediatrics http://www.pediatrics.wisc.edu/patientcare/preemies/nicu.html

Clinical Trials

1.	ClinicalTrials.gov: Ventilators, Mechanical National Institutes of Health http://clinicaltrials.gov/search/term=mechanical+ventilators&recruiting=tru...

Coping

1.	When a Loved One Needs Critical Care American Association of Critical-Care Nurses http://www.aacn.org/AACN/mrkt.nsf/Files/IcuTip/$file/IcuTip.pdf




2.	Taking Care of Yourself While a Loved One Is in th Society of Critical Care Medicine http://www.sccm.org/patient_family_resources/documents/Take_Care.pdf

Dictionaries/Glossaries

1.	Glossary of Critical Care Terms Society of Critical Care Medicine http://www.sccm.org/patient_family_resources/glossary_of_terms.asp

Disease Management

1.	Mechanical Ventilation: Beyond the Intensive Care American College of Chest Physicians http://www.chestnet.org/patients/guides/mech_vent/index.php

Organizations

1.	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/

Overviews

1.	Critical Care Questions Society of Critical Care Medicine http://www.sccm.org/patient_family_resources/critical_care_questions.asp




2.	JAMA Patient Page: Intensive Care Units American Medical Association http://www.medem.com/medlb/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZ4U3LON2D&sub_...




3.	Primer on Critical Care for Patients and Their Fam American Thoracic Society http://www.thoracic.org/assemblies/cc/ccprimer/toc.html

Related Issues

1.	History of Critical Care Society of Critical Care Medicine http://www.sccm.org/patient_family_resources/history_of_critical_care.asp




2.	Respiratory Failure Merck & Co., Inc. http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec04/ch055/ch055a.html

Specific Conditions

1.	What Happens After Heart Surgery? American Heart Association http://www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/110080657690951%20WhtHppnsA...




2.	Common Problems of Critical Illness Society of Critical Care Medicine http://www.sccm.org/patient_family_resources/documents/Common_Problems.pdf




3.	Critical Care Team Society of Critical Care Medicine http://www.sccm.org/patient_family_resources/critical_care_team.asp




4.	How Will I Be Monitored after Heart Surgery? American Heart Association http://www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/110080986884636%20HowWillMo...




5.	JAMA Patient Page: Assisted Breathing American Medical Association http://www.medem.com/medlb/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZQIIHFFGC&sub_...




6.	Participating in Care: What Questions Should I Ask Society of Critical Care Medicine http://www.sccm.org/patient_family_resources/documents/Particip.pdf




7.	Why Do ICU Patients Look and Act That Way? Society of Critical Care Medicine http://www.sccm.org/patient_family_resources/documents/Why_do_they_look.pdf...




8.	What Are My Choices Regarding Life Support? Society of Critical Care Medicine http://www.sccm.org/patient_family_resources/documents/Life_Supp.pdf




9.	What Is ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/Ards/Ards_WhatIs.html

Statistics

1.	Trauma, Burn, Shock, and Injury: Facts and Figures National Institute of General Medical Sciences http://www.nigms.nih.gov/news/facts/traumaburnfactsfigures.html

Treatment

1.	End of Life Choices - Feeding Tubes and Ventilator Family Caregiver Alliance http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=399