CRITICAL CARE Guidelines

       By Dr Deepu

An ATS Policy Statement: Managing conscientious objections in the ICU (2015)

American College of Chest Physicians/La Societe de Reanimation de Langue Francaise Statement on Competence in Critical Care Ultrasonography (April 2009)

An ATS Clinical Practice Guideline: ICU-acquired weakness (2014)

An Official ATS/AACN/ACCP/ESICM/SCCM Statement: Responding to requests for potentially inappropriate therapies in the ICU (2015)

An Official ATS/AACN/ACCP/SCCM Statement: The Choosing Wisely Top 5 List in Critical Care Medicine (2014)

An Official Multi-Society Statement: The Role of Clinical Research Results in the Practice of Critical Care Medicine (2012)

BTS Guideline on non-invasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure BTS Guidelines 2002

Care of the Critically Ill and Injured During Pandemics and Disasters: CHEST Consensus Statement (October 2014)

Evidence-based Colloid Use in the Critically Ill: American Thoracic Society Consensus Statement (2004)

Executive Summary: Management of the Critically Ill Patient with Severe Acute Pancreatitis (2004)

ICU Telemedicine (2011)

International Consensus Conferences in Intensive Care Medicine: Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure (2001) Being revised.

NICE Guideline:Non-invasive ventilation in Motor Neuron Disease july 2010

NIV in COPD: management of acute type 2 respiratory failure concise guideline Non-invasive ventilation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder: management of acute type 2 respiratory failure concise guideline October 2008

Prevention and Management for Acute Renal Failure in an ICU Patient (2010)

The Use of Non-Invasive Ventilation in the management of patients with COPD admitted to hospital with acute type II respiratory failureThe Use of Non-Invasive Ventilation in the management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease admitted to hospital with acute type II respiratory failure. The full guideline is a joint BTS/RCP London/Intensive Care Society document 2008

Understanding Costs and Cost-Effectiveness in Critical Care: Report from the Second ATS Workshop on Outcomes Research (2002)

Weaning from mechanical ventilation ERS / ATS / ESICM / SCCM / SRLF Statement of the Sixth International Consensus Conference on Intensive Care Medicine 2007