• Home
  • Welcome and Orientation
  • About This Guide
  • Patient Transfers
  • AAA
  • Anticoagulation Reversal
  • ARDS/Mechanical Vent
  • Atrial Fibrillation
  • Brain Death
  • CAR-T
  • Crash Cart/Defibrillator
  • CSW/SIADH
  • Cricothyrotomy
  • Cuff Leak. What is it?
  • Delirium/Antipsychotics
  • DKA/Other Ketoacidosis
  • EVD AND ICP MONITORS
  • ETOH Withdrawal
  • Extubation Readiness
  • Febrile Neutropenia
  • Fluids
  • GI Bleeds
  • Group A Streptococcus
  • Hypertension PRNs
  • Lido With Epi Recipe
  • Lines & Tubes on CXR
  • Lumbar Drains
  • Lung Volume Recruitment
  • Massive Transfusion
  • O2 Delivery Devices
  • Pacemaker Insertion
  • Pain/Analgesia
  • Pocket Pressor Recipes
  • Pulmonary Embolism/PERT
  • Respiratory Failure
  • ROSC
  • Sedation in ICU
  • Seizures/Status
  • Shock and Sepsis
  • Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
  • Swan Ganz Catheter Setup
  • TBI/EVD/ICP monitoring
  • TEVAR
  • Toxicology/Overdose
  • Tracheostomies AND THT
  • Trauma Patients in ICU
  • Tumor Lysis Syndrome
  • Vasoactive Medications
  • Ultrasound Guided Lines
  • More
    • Home
    • Welcome and Orientation
    • About This Guide
    • Patient Transfers
    • AAA
    • Anticoagulation Reversal
    • ARDS/Mechanical Vent
    • Atrial Fibrillation
    • Brain Death
    • CAR-T
    • Crash Cart/Defibrillator
    • CSW/SIADH
    • Cricothyrotomy
    • Cuff Leak. What is it?
    • Delirium/Antipsychotics
    • DKA/Other Ketoacidosis
    • EVD AND ICP MONITORS
    • ETOH Withdrawal
    • Extubation Readiness
    • Febrile Neutropenia
    • Fluids
    • GI Bleeds
    • Group A Streptococcus
    • Hypertension PRNs
    • Lido With Epi Recipe
    • Lines & Tubes on CXR
    • Lumbar Drains
    • Lung Volume Recruitment
    • Massive Transfusion
    • O2 Delivery Devices
    • Pacemaker Insertion
    • Pain/Analgesia
    • Pocket Pressor Recipes
    • Pulmonary Embolism/PERT
    • Respiratory Failure
    • ROSC
    • Sedation in ICU
    • Seizures/Status
    • Shock and Sepsis
    • Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
    • Swan Ganz Catheter Setup
    • TBI/EVD/ICP monitoring
    • TEVAR
    • Toxicology/Overdose
    • Tracheostomies AND THT
    • Trauma Patients in ICU
    • Tumor Lysis Syndrome
    • Vasoactive Medications
    • Ultrasound Guided Lines
  • Home
  • Welcome and Orientation
  • About This Guide
  • Patient Transfers
  • AAA
  • Anticoagulation Reversal
  • ARDS/Mechanical Vent
  • Atrial Fibrillation
  • Brain Death
  • CAR-T
  • Crash Cart/Defibrillator
  • CSW/SIADH
  • Cricothyrotomy
  • Cuff Leak. What is it?
  • Delirium/Antipsychotics
  • DKA/Other Ketoacidosis
  • EVD AND ICP MONITORS
  • ETOH Withdrawal
  • Extubation Readiness
  • Febrile Neutropenia
  • Fluids
  • GI Bleeds
  • Group A Streptococcus
  • Hypertension PRNs
  • Lido With Epi Recipe
  • Lines & Tubes on CXR
  • Lumbar Drains
  • Lung Volume Recruitment
  • Massive Transfusion
  • O2 Delivery Devices
  • Pacemaker Insertion
  • Pain/Analgesia
  • Pocket Pressor Recipes
  • Pulmonary Embolism/PERT
  • Respiratory Failure
  • ROSC
  • Sedation in ICU
  • Seizures/Status
  • Shock and Sepsis
  • Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
  • Swan Ganz Catheter Setup
  • TBI/EVD/ICP monitoring
  • TEVAR
  • Toxicology/Overdose
  • Tracheostomies AND THT
  • Trauma Patients in ICU
  • Tumor Lysis Syndrome
  • Vasoactive Medications
  • Ultrasound Guided Lines

    ABOUT THIS GUIDE

    THIS GUIDE WAS MADE FOR YOU

    This survival guide was made for you for you by popular demand from your predecessors.  Feel free to share and use it during and after your ICU rotation

    FORMAT

    The Guide contains topics and information pertaining to our most common admissions and issues in the ICU


    Topics are listed alphabetically and contain specific instructions as to how and what orders to write for the various patient populations.  Each topic also contains educational topics


    This is a survival guide.  Although each topic is evidence based, the topics are not comprehensive.  You will still have to further your reading.

    DOWNLOAD THE APP(S)

    Scroll down to get the QR codes and websites to download this APP and the Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT) app

    FEEDBACK

    We want this to be helpful to you.  If you can think of a topic you'd like to see here or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Dr. Hilary Meggison at hmeggison@toh.ca

    DOWNLOAD THE APPS

    Ottawa ICU Survival Guide for Rotating Residents

    ALTERNATIVE WAY TO DOWNLOAD THE SURVIVAL GUIDE APP


    • From your smart phone go to this website https://ottawaicusurvivalguide.ca/


    • Click on the upload button on your smart phone


    • Click on "add to home screen"

    TOH Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT)

    ALTERNATIVE WAY TO DOWNLOAD THE PERT APP


    • From your smart phone click on this website https://pertottawa.ca/


    • Click on the upload button on your smart phone


    • Click on "add to home screen"


    Created especially for our residents for their ICU rotation

    Lan-Linh Truong MD FRCPC

    Fellow, Critical Care Medicine

    University of Ottawa 

    Critical Care Fellowship Program


     Hilary Meggison MD FRCPC

    Department of Critical Care

    The Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus

    1053 Carling Avenue

    Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 4E9

    hmeggison@toh.ca

    Ottawa ICU Survival Guide for Rotating Residents

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