ARDS Support Center
   Offers a newsletter, education, a message board, and information for patients with Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome, survivors, families, friends, and medical personnel.
   http://www.ards.org/

Acid-Base Balance: Introduction
   Features the history, physiology and treatment of acid-base disturbances, information on the production of acid, understanding pH, clinical considerations and references.
   http://www.acid-base.com/

Anesthesia, Critical Care and Emergency Medicine
   Includes links to anesthesia principles, practices, journals and departments, as well as critical care and emergency medicine resources.
   http://www.invivo.net/bg/index2.html

Asthma Management Model System
   A comprehensive site with information on research, treatment and concerns related to asthma.
   http://www.nhlbisupport.com/asthma/

CCRN Net
   Includes articles, index of resources, chat, photography, and games.
   http://www.ccrnnet.com/main_index/

Critical Care Medicine Tutorials
   Provides information on respiratory failure, shock, renal failure, sepsis and other body systems in a question/answer format. Includes clinical scenarios.
   http://www.ccmtutorials.com/

Critical Care Paramedic Protocols
   Includes prehospital medical protocols and standing orders. Site provided courtesy of Bryan E. Bledsoe, DO, FACEP.
   http://www.ssgfx.com/CP2020/medtech/procedures/protocols.htm

GASNet
   Academic content for the Anesthesiology/Intensive Care community. Includes information on subjects such as airway management, pediatrics, hemodynamics, resuscitation, intracranial hypertension, acid-base balance, anesthesia.
   http://www.gasnet.org/

Gloria's Critical Care Resources
   Annotated links to related sites such as cardiology, trauma and anesthesiology.
   http://members.nuvox.net/~on.gloriamc/

ICUs and Nursing Web Journal
   Contains critical care and emergency related articles, associations, conferences, drug information, nursing links, online journals, medical and nursing cartoons.
   http://www.nursing.gr/

IntensiveCare.Com
   Has resources for practicing Evidence-Based Nursing and Medicine.
   http://www.intensivecare.com/

Introduction to Pulse Oximetry
   Describes mechanism, limitations, and myths.
   http://www.pulseox.info/

Johns Hopkins: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
   Offers education and research related to pulmonary medicine. Site features clinical programs relating to various lung diseases and provides a definition, evaluation, treatment, research, and educational material for each.
   http://www.hopkins-lungs.org/

Joint Statement on Resuscitative Interventions
   Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) has prepared this joint statement in collaboration with other national health related organizations. [PDF]
   http://www.cna-nurses.ca/_frames/policies/policiesmainframe.htm

Monitoring the Critically Ill Patient.
   An educational review covering topics such as responses to stress and trauma, tissue oxygenation, cardiovascular system monitoring, respiratory, renal and the central nervous system.
   http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/journal/vol44_6/4460010.htm

Nepean Intensive Care
   Includes some academic work of these ICU nurses, an image library, quiz page and controversy issues.
   http://www.nepeanicu.org/

Nurse Bob's MICU/CCU Survival Guide
   Offers a variety of resources including policies and procedures, synopses of systems and diseases, drugs, and drug calculation formulas.
   http://rnbob.tripod.com/

Online Pulmonary Textbook
   Reviews pulmonary anatomy, disease and tumors.
   http://www.vh.org/Providers/ProviderOrgSys/OSPulmonary.html

Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring
   Describes the procedure for insertion of PA lines, interpretation of waveforms and values and the potential complications.
   http://rnbob.tripod.com/pap.htm

Pulmonary Embolus
   A multimedia textbook with presentation, diagnosis via scan, CT and pulmonary angiography, with multiple case studies.
   http://www.vh.org/Providers/Textbooks/ElectricPE/ElectricPE.html

Pulmonary and Critical Care Update Online
   An educational program provided each month by clinicians that offers lessons featuring diagnostic information on current pulmonary and critical care medicine.
   http://www.chestnet.org/education/online/pccu/

Pulse Oximetry
   Describes how it works, calibration, and performance considerations.
   http://www.nda.ox.ac.uk/wfsa/html/u05/u05_003.htm

The Critical Care Forum
   Includes commentaries on recent issues, research, clinical guidelines, reports, educational reviews of clinical practice, basic science, and technology, suppliments, links and a schedule of conferences. Available in print and online.
   http://ccforum.com/

The Medical Algorithms Project
   Contains more than 3,500 algorithms and 44 different chapters covering all major medical topics. Provides computation, formula, survey, or look-up tables, useful in health care with one chapter devoted to critical care.
   http://www.medal.org/

The New England Journal of Medicine: Critical Care
   Offers articles, case reports, and reviews on topics such as shock, sepsis, and acute respiratory distress. [Subscription required to view some articles.]
   http://content.nejm.org/cgi/collection/critical_care