Intensive Care Academy
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Intensive Care Academy
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A self-paced online learning platform for critical care education at icu101.com. Taught by @critconcepts.bsky.social and @criticalcarenotes.bsky.social
We dive into the subtle art of placing, understanding, and interpreting the PA (Swan Ganz) catheter, on a new lesson at icu101.com.

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November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
New lesson on Pacemakers at the Intensive Care Academy - TCP, TVP, epicardial, PPMs, and more, including management in critical illness, the problem of false capture, and more.

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October 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Looking to subscribe to the Academy? To celebrate our 1-year anniversary, we're running a sale for the month of August: use the code AUG25 for 20% off all new subscriptions. Check it out!

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August 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
From our new lesson in the SICU program: Abdominal emergencies and damage control surgery

Available at icu101.com

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July 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
New lesson in our POCUS program: Vascular ultrasound! From DVTs to aortic pathology and everything in between.

at icu101.com

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July 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
New lesson in the POCUS course: Abdominal ultrasound!

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June 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
New lesson on lumbar punctures (when, how, and when not to do it) - now at icu101.com.

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June 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
BIG NEWS! At last, the Intensive Care Academy is CME accredited!

We know you've been waiting patiently, and today's the day. Academy members can claim continuing education credit for videos watched.

Members: check out your email!

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June 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Don't forget to consider liver transplant in the sick patient with liver failure! From our new Liver and Biliary Diseases lesson at icu101.com.

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May 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Who goes into alcohol withdrawal? How do you recognize it? What are you approaches to treatment, ranging from prophylaxis, to routine care, to refractory cases? All that and a bag of chips in the new lesson in our MICU program (icu101.com).

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April 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Should you be prepared to do a cric?

We wrap up our airway management series with a deep dive into cricothyrotomy, over at icu101.com.

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April 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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PAC use in medical ICUs is a dying art form. Don’t always need them, but you still should be able to work with them in select situations.

Even if you’re experienced, get all you can out of the data! It’s not about any 1 #. And context is everything.
March 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Our old friend @zentensivist.bsky.social gives us a masterclass in the advanced tricks of PA catheter placement icuscenarios.com/lightning-ro...

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Lightning rounds 50: Mastering PA catheter placement with Matt Siuba – Critical Care Scenarios
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March 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Intubation with DL, regular geometry VL, hyperangulated VL, the bougie, failed airways, and more—all in the new Airway lesson. Check it out in the Procedures course.
February 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If you've been thinking of subscribing to the Intensive Care Academy, now would be a clever time - until March 15, we're offering a 10% discount for new subscribers. Just use the code FEB25 at checkout. Tell your friends, tell your family...
February 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
At long last, our airway program starts to tackle how to intubate. We talk about positioning, induction meds, pre-oxygenation, and more, this week in the Academy.

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February 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Part two of our POCUS course is live - Bryan reviews the basic views and concepts of echocardiography. Check it out in the Academy!

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February 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Part 2 of our series on airway management is live: using the BVM, airway adjuncts, and LMAs!
January 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Hooray, it's here! Part one of our airway management lesson has hit the Procedures course -- how think about airways, creating your internal airway algorithm, how to train and practice, assessing the patient to predict difficulty, and more.

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January 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
What does it mean to be "tough," resilient, or robust in the clinical setting? It means you can handle... whatever. How to learn this skill, on this week's Pearl.
January 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Sudden dilute polyuria in hyponatremia? Check for overcorrection!

For icu101.com

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December 30, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Mystified by the many variegations and vicissitudes of hyponatremia? Join us in the latest MICU lesson as we break down the physiology, how to assess, and the different considerations behind treatment.
December 30, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Everyone has different goals of care, but enough patients have the same initial take that it's useful to know about... we discuss the "default goals of care" on this week's Pearl.
December 18, 2024 at 3:12 PM
New lesson in the Procedures course: mastering the micropuncture kit! How, why, and when to use these lovely little devices.

Also: Q&A tonight at 8:00 Eastern! Check email (or the FB group) for the link. If you can't make it live, send your Q by email, social, etc and we'll answer live.
December 16, 2024 at 4:00 PM
December 6, 2024 at 5:22 PM