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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Aug 3

Looking to subscribe to the Academy? To celebrate our 1-year anniversary, we're running a sale for the month of August: use the code AUG25 for 20% off all new subscriptions. Check it out!

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Jul 28

From our new lesson in the SICU program: Abdominal emergencies and damage control surgery

Available at icu101.com

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Jul 15

New lesson in our POCUS program: Vascular ultrasound! From DVTs to aortic pathology and everything in between.

at icu101.com

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Jun 17

New lesson in the POCUS course: Abdominal ultrasound!

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Jun 10

New lesson on lumbar punctures (when, how, and when not to do it) - now at icu101.com.

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Jun 1

BIG NEWS! At last, the Intensive Care Academy is CME accredited!

We know you've been waiting patiently, and today's the day. Academy members can claim continuing education credit for videos watched.

Members: check out your email!

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · May 6

Don't forget to consider liver transplant in the sick patient with liver failure! From our new Liver and Biliary Diseases lesson at icu101.com.

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Apr 17

Who goes into alcohol withdrawal? How do you recognize it? What are you approaches to treatment, ranging from prophylaxis, to routine care, to refractory cases? All that and a bag of chips in the new lesson in our MICU program (icu101.com).

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Apr 1

Should you be prepared to do a cric?

We wrap up our airway management series with a deep dive into cricothyrotomy, over at icu101.com.

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Matt Siuba @zentensivist.bsky.social · Mar 5

PAC use in medical ICUs is a dying art form. Don’t always need them, but you still should be able to work with them in select situations.

Even if you’re experienced, get all you can out of the data! It’s not about any 1 #. And context is everything.

Critical Concepts @critconcepts.bsky.social · Mar 5

Our old friend @zentensivist.bsky.social gives us a masterclass in the advanced tricks of PA catheter placement icuscenarios.com/lightning-ro...

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Lightning rounds 50: Mastering PA catheter placement with Matt Siuba – Critical Care Scenarios

icuscenarios.com

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Critical Concepts @critconcepts.bsky.social · Mar 5

Our old friend @zentensivist.bsky.social gives us a masterclass in the advanced tricks of PA catheter placement icuscenarios.com/lightning-ro...

#medsky #emimcc

Lightning rounds 50: Mastering PA catheter placement with Matt Siuba – Critical Care Scenarios

icuscenarios.com

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Feb 24

Intubation with DL, regular geometry VL, hyperangulated VL, the bougie, failed airways, and more—all in the new Airway lesson. Check it out in the Procedures course.

Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Feb 13

If you've been thinking of subscribing to the Intensive Care Academy, now would be a clever time - until March 15, we're offering a 10% discount for new subscribers. Just use the code FEB25 at checkout. Tell your friends, tell your family...

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Feb 12

lol that’s my tolerant wife

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Feb 10

At long last, our airway program starts to tackle how to intubate. We talk about positioning, induction meds, pre-oxygenation, and more, this week in the Academy.

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Feb 3

Part two of our POCUS course is live - Bryan reviews the basic views and concepts of echocardiography. Check it out in the Academy!

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Jan 28

Part 2 of our series on airway management is live: using the BVM, airway adjuncts, and LMAs!

Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Jan 13

Hooray, it's here! Part one of our airway management lesson has hit the Procedures course -- how think about airways, creating your internal airway algorithm, how to train and practice, assessing the patient to predict difficulty, and more.

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Jan 1

What does it mean to be "tough," resilient, or robust in the clinical setting? It means you can handle... whatever. How to learn this skill, on this week's Pearl.

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Dec 30

Sudden dilute polyuria in hyponatremia? Check for overcorrection!

For icu101.com

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Dec 30

Mystified by the many variegations and vicissitudes of hyponatremia? Join us in the latest MICU lesson as we break down the physiology, how to assess, and the different considerations behind treatment.

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Dec 18

Everyone has different goals of care, but enough patients have the same initial take that it's useful to know about... we discuss the "default goals of care" on this week's Pearl.

Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Dec 16

New lesson in the Procedures course: mastering the micropuncture kit! How, why, and when to use these lovely little devices.

Also: Q&A tonight at 8:00 Eastern! Check email (or the FB group) for the link. If you can't make it live, send your Q by email, social, etc and we'll answer live.

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Dec 6

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Intensive Care Academy @icacademy.bsky.social · Dec 5

One of the most difficult skills for early trainees is to switch from mere observation to a more normative, prescriptive stance. Don't ask, "what's happening?" Ask, "what SHOULD be happening?" On this week's Pearl.

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