Episodes

General Principles of Post-operative Care: When Physiology Goes Awry 17.04.2014 52:44

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 […]

Burton Lee – Numeracy II: The tale of sample sizes, the superstitious student, & superb studies 08.04.2014 47:25

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 […]

Principles of antibiotic therapy in the critically ill 03.04.2014 1:03:43

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, […]

Polyneuromyopathy of critical illness: when to call in the cavalry! 27.03.2014 57:57

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 […]

Anthony Harris – Infection Control 21.03.2014 52:38

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 […]

You saved them from critical illness…. Now what? 13.03.2014 55:13

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 […]

HIV + Critical Illness: a primer of ICU management 07.03.2014 50:42

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. […]

Stats 101: A Blueprint to Mastering Numeracy & Avoiding Apophenia 27.02.2014 56:14

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 […]

Medical Literature: Trust no one and expect sabotage! 20.02.2014 47:56

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 […]

Shanholtz – Salvage Therapy for Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure 13.02.2014 48:41

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 […]

Airway and Thoracic Procedures: 3 Topics You Gotta Know 06.02.2014 53:19

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: […]

Hayes – Vanc & Zosyn is NOT the Answer to Everything 31.01.2014 33:18

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 & […]

Anders – Critical Care for Two: When Pregnancy Meets the ICU 23.01.2014 1:01:28

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 […]

Bacterial Infections in the ICU 16.01.2014 51:58

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 […]

The Fungal Invasion of the ICU- A Catastrophe Waiting to Happen 09.01.2014 55:30

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 […]

Dr. Michael Chansky: Acid-Base (Made Easy) 26.12.2013 1:04:51

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 […]

Introduction to Ventricular Assist Devices 12.12.2013 49:47

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 […]

Surgically-Altered Airways: What you NEED to Know to Avoid Disasters!! 28.11.2013 41:53

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 […]

Managing the Burn Patient in the ICU 21.11.2013 50:13

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 […]

ICU Toxicology: Lethal poisonings and ODs – How to best manage them 14.11.2013 48:47

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 […]

Introduction to ECMO and its emerging role in cardiac arrest & shock 12.11.2013 28:55

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 […]

Alternatives to Oxygenation, When to Take the Ventilator Out of the Equation 11.11.2013 30:53

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 […]

Cardiogenic Shock, When the Pump Fails 06.11.2013 1:03:54

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 […]

Ventilator Waveform Analysis 24.10.2013 53:46

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 […]

Principles of Resuscitation 17.10.2013 51:01

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 […]