Medscape Critical Care Podcast

Cardiac intensive care units have evolved rapidly in recent years. Drs Barsness and Acharya discuss unique training and resource requirements for a model CICU.

How do you bring order to the chaos in the aftermath of a mass shooting? Dr Rob Glatter speaks with Dr Dale Carrison, chief of emergency medicine at UMC in Las Vegas.

Is CMV just a bystander or is it a contributor to critical illness in non-immunosuppressed ICU patients? A new study provides a few answers and raises new questions.

Many factors have contributed to physicians' disillusionment with medicine--E&M coding, tsunamis of paperwork--but among these, the EHR stands out as particularly egregious.

Don't forget to consider Legionella as a cause of hospital-acquired pneumonia. It's more common and deadlier than some may realize.

Dr Piña runs through some of the key takeaways from the ACC/AHA/HFSA Focused Update of the guidelines on the management of heart failure.

Dr Paul Auwaerter points out some of his ID-related concerns with the revised sepsis guidelines.

Dr Paul Auwaerter addresses some misunderstandings about the management of Clostridium difficile infection that he discovered during his time on a consultation service.

Dr Peter Yellowlees discusses a recent publication reviewing multiple studies on the use of droperidol for psychosis-induced aggression or agitation.

Although they aren't FDA-approved yet, high-sensitivity troponin assays may soon replace traditional troponin assays for detecting acute MIs. Drs Gulati and Jaffe discuss the implications.