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The LITFL Critical Care Compendium is a comprehensive collection of pages concisely covering the core topics and controversies of critical care.

Spontaneous breathing, assisted ventilation, and patient self-inflicted lung injury (P-SILI)

Spontaneous breathing can occur without ventilatory support (unassisted spontaneous breathing) or be integrated with mechanical ventilation with assisted ventilation modes (assisted spontaneous breathing).

Chris Nickson
April 18, 2020

SARS-CoV-2 the novel coronavirus of COVID-19 340

Imaging of COVID-19 pneumonia: a critical care perspective

Overview of lung imaging for COVID-19 pneumonia, from a critical care perspective (Critical Care Compendium)

Gregory Brogan
April 17, 2020

5-step COVID: A cognitive aid for the pandemic airway

5-step COVID - a cognitive aid for the pandemic airway emphasising key consideration in the intubation of COVID19 patients.

Peter Brindley
April 12, 2020

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Overview of COVID-19, including assessment and management, from an Australia and New Zealand critical care perspective.

Gregory Brogan
April 6, 2020

Checklist: Suspected COVID 19 intubation

Today I had the opportunity to review a very nicely created Peri-intubation Action Card that was put together in short order by two anesthesiologists from Scope Anesthesia - Dr. Janish Patel and Dr. Kimberly Blasius.

Michael Gibbs MD
March 26, 2020

COVID-19 a 3-step approach to intubation

Pragmatic Recommendations for Intubating Critically Ill Patients with Suspected COVID-19. Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open.

Michael Gibbs MD
March 19, 2020

Gastric Point-of-care Ultrasound (POCUS)

Gastric POCUS (point-of-care ultrasound) for the assessment of peri-procedural aspiration risk prior to induction of anaesthesia.

Stewart Ure and Chris Nickson
March 15, 2020

ARDSnet Ventilation Strategy

ARDSnet Ventilation Strategy: Note that the definitions below have recently been revised - however they are included here as they were used in the ARDSNet trial.

Chris Nickson
January 4, 2020

Medmastery: bicarbonate loss and acid overload

Franz Wiesbauer explains how to differentiate between metabolic acidaemia caused by a loss of bicarbonate and that caused by the addition of acid.

Franz Wiesbauer
October 17, 2019

Medmastery: compensation

Franz Wiesbauer looks at acid-base compensation and some super-simple rules that will help you decide whether compensation is adequate or not.

Franz Wiesbauer
October 10, 2019

A Most Discombobulating Gas

Are you discombobulated by this blood gas? It will lead you down an unexpected path...

Michelle Johnston
July 21, 2019

Alcohol Toxidrome

AGENTS ethanol methanol ethylene glycol isopropyl alcohol others! CLINICAL FEATURES euphoria disinhibition stupour respiratory depression cardiovascular depression coma ocular toxicity = methanol hypocalcemia + renal failure = ethylene glycol haemorrhagic gastriyis = isopropyl alcohol INVESTIGATIONS ethanol level (> 400mg/dL ->…

Chris Nickson
May 1, 2019