Elizabeth Marie Viglianti, MD, MPH, MSc is an assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care at the University of Michigan. Her topic today is #MeToo in medicine and the current state of gender bias in academic medicine.

Viglianti – #MeTooInMedicine: Where are we now?

Nick Villalobos, MD is the medical director of the MICU and critical care ultrasound at the San Antonio Military Medical Center. His lecture focuses on renal ultrasound techniques and how renal ultrasound can be used in critically ill patients to assess kidney function.

Villalobos – Why You Shouldn’t Forget the Renal Ultrasound

Mehrdad Ghoreishi, MD is an assistant professor of cardiac surgery at the University of Maryland. He currently serves as the director of the Aortic Center. His lecture focuses on novel endovascular techniques in aortic surgery.

Ghoreishi – What a Multidisciplinary Aortic Team Can Offer Patients with Aortic Disease in 2023

Alison Grazioli, MD is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland. She completed fellowships in both critical care and nephrology and currently serves as the medical director of the cardiac surgery intensive care unit at the University of Maryland. Her lecture focuses on the common challenges of renal replacement ...

Grazioli – ICU Renal Replacement Therapy & Challenges

Dr. Willard Applefeld attended the University of Maryland School of Medicine and did his internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins. He completed a fellowship in critical care at the National Institutes of Health. He is currently a cardiology fellow at Duke University Medical Center. His talk focuses on right ventricle ...

Applefeld – RV Structure & Point of Care Imaging

Dr. Frank Rasulo is an associate professor of anesthesiology and intensive care at University Hospital in Brescia, Italy, where he heads the neurocritical care department. The topic of his presentation is intracranial hypertension which is his research focus. He was a principal investigator on the IMPRESSIT-2 trial published in Critical ...

Frank Rasulo – Intracranial Hypertension

Dr. Allison Lankford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Services at the University of Maryland. She is a Maternal Fetal Medicine and Critical Care physician at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Lankford presents a lecture entitled "Gas Exchange and Pulmonary Ventilation in the Critically- Ill Obstetric Patient" as part of the DC5 Lecture series.

Lankford – Gas Exchange and Pulmonary Ventilation in the Critically Ill Obstetric Patient

Dr. Allison Lankford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Services at the University of Maryland. She is a Maternal Fetal Medicine and Critical Care physician at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Lankford presents a lecture on the "Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy" as part of the DC5 Lecture series.

Lankford – Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy

Dr. Tyson Suljin is Deputy Chief of Critical Care Medicine and APD of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Brook Army Medical Center.  He presents a lecture entitled "Massive Transfusion" from the Critical Care perspective as part of the DC5 lecture series.

Sjulin – Massive Transfusion

Anica Law, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine/Pulmonary Center at the Boston University School of Medicine presents Critical Care Grand Rounds with a lecture entitled "After Our Work Here is Done: Survivorship After the ICU."

Law – Survivorship After the ICU

Unreliable audio between episodes and within each episode. Otherwise great discussion.

Great topics, Very poor audio quality

This is a great podcast for those wanting to sit in on lectures for free. Having worked at UM in the past, I know how great all the providers there are and that the information will be top notch. Thanks for doing this.

Awesome guide to CC

Maryland CC Project

Dr. Deborah Stein is the Chief of Trauma at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Medical Director of the Neurotrauma Intensive Care Unit at STC, and an expert in renal replacement therapy – To be honest that barely touches her level of expertise, and we’re not really sure what she can’t ...

Stein – Advanced Concepts in CRRT and MARS

Dr. Roy Brower returns to discuss a HOT topic in critical care - Driving Pressure.  Is this the new mechanical ventilation resus end-point?  Is pPlat &lt; 30 out?  In this talk, Dr. Brower will explain how to calculate the driving pressure, how it correlates with the stress index, and how you may be able to prevent VILI with just some simple bedside adjustments.

Brower: Driving pressure in ARDS, does it matter?!?

Today we welcome back Dr. Nirav Shah, program director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship program at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Today Dr. Shah takes us back to the basics of ventilator use. Even the experts in the audience will find tips and tricks to take back to the ICU in order to improve patient care. And for all the budding intensivists out there, this is a talk you cannot miss!!

Shah: Mechanical Ventilation, Focusing on the basics

Michael Chansky

We were fortunate to have Dr. Michael Chansky, Professor &amp; Chair of Emergency Medicine at Cooper University Hospital and a member of the Master Educator’s Guild come down to the University of Maryland to teach about Acid-Base disorders.  Dr. Chansky loves Acid-Base problems so much that he actually sleeps with ...

Dr. Michael Chansky: Acid-Base (Made Easy)

Abdelhady: Who's who in the Acid/Base story…

Today we welcome back Samuel M. Galvagno, DO, PhD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology &amp; Chief, Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Maryland School Of Medicine. Dr. Galvagno has an extremely impressive resume, including a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg University School of Public Health as well as over 60 peer reviewed publications coupled with years of clinical expertise in airway and ventilator management. Today he is gracious to share some pearls of wisdom to guide the average intensivist in the management of a newly ventilated patient. There is so much information in this lecture that I am certain you will want to watch it multiple times!

Galvagno: Patient-ventilator interactions, perfusion-protection strategies

Dr. Hong Kim is an emergency medicine trained toxicologist who also trained in New York city at the famed Bellevue toxicology program.  In this week’s core content lecture, Dr. Kim reviews the causes or alcohol withdrawal as well as come of the current treatment strategies.  The second half of this ...

Hong Kim – Alcohol Withdrawal and Cyanide Toxicity

Carl Shanholtz

Carl Shanholtz, MD is medical director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center. After a fellowship in critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University he did further training in Hematology and Oncology at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He specializes in the care of hematologic ...

Carl Shanholtz – Hematologic Malignancies and Critical Care

Today we have the pleasure of undergoing something we have NEVER before demonstrated on MCCP, our first whiteboard lecture! And we have the best person possible to accomplish this monumental feat: Patricia A. Kritek, MD, EDM. Dr. Kritek is a Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Associate Medical Director of Critical Care at the University of Washington Medical Center. In addition, she has revolutionized the way training programs use technology to teach medical students, residents and fellows, having earned her EdM from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Today she was kind enough to cross the USA and grace us with a fantastic, interactive, and highly educational talk on the ways we should and should not treat ARDS. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience her brilliance!

Kritek: ARDS Management Overview (What can whiteboards do for you? )

Today we are excited to welcome back one of the smartest fellows we have ever graduated, Michael Allison, MD. Dr. Allison is a native New Yorker, training at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine before completing a rigorous EM/IM/CCM training program here at the University of Maryland. Since that time he has spent his days at St. Agnes Hospital located downtown in Baltimore, MD. Since his departure, Dr. Allison has spent countless hours researching the exact mechanisms of respiratory failure in an attempt to solve this problem before it ever develops. Today he takes us through his approach to using high flow nasal cannula for nearly every patient who walks into his ICU, and in doing so unlocks a few novel uses along the way. Trust me, this is a talk your patients cannot afford for you to miss!

Allison: High flow like a pro!!

Alejandro Baez

Dr. Amado Alejandro Baez is the Emergency Medicine Program Director at the Jackson Memorial Hospital/ University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and has published extensively in Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Critical Care. He is a rock star – in fact, one of his research collaboratives is the ACDC project ...

Alejandro Baez – A Bayesian Approach to Clinical Decision Making

Dr. Meagan Deming and Dr. Sarah Williams present a timely talk entitled "Influenza vs. Coronavirus: Just Another Cold?"

Deming & Williams – Influenza vs. Coronavirus: Just another cold?

Today’s lecture will be a Core Curriculum presented by Dr. Elizabeth Cox Williams, Assistant  Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Maryland.  The lecture will focus on Airway Management.

Today’s lecture will be a Core Curriculum presented by Dr. Elizabeth Cox Williams, Assistant <br> Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Maryland.  The lecture will focus on Airway Management.

Cox – Approach to Airway

Shiber: Updates in Traumatic Brain Injury

Dr. Daniel Herr Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery and Chief of Surgical Critical at the University of Maryland presents on "Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in the ICU".

Herr – Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in the ICU

This afternoon we were fortunate to pull Michael G. Allison, MD from the ICU at St Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, MD back over to UMMC where he was gracious to donate an hour of his his brilliance. Dr. Allison is a previous graduate of the Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine/Critical Care fellowship here at the University of Maryland Medical Center where he molded his training and career to the speciality use of ultrasound and echocardiography in the intensive care unit. He has taken this unique niche and dominated the field of volume assessment in the critically ill patient. Today I welcome you to sit back and enjoy what has been one of the more enjoyable journeys in education we have been privy to here at CCproject!

Allison: Volume responsiveness in the ICU, the Lebowski way!

Rosenthal: How “Critical” is O2 in Critical Care?

Dr. David Gordon, will be hosting a two part series. The series will be a concise review of the critical care COVID-19 literature with some discussion on current COVID-19 management controversies. Part 1 will focus on respiratory therapeutics and coagulopathy.

Gordon – COVID-19 Literature Review Part 1

Sam Galvagno

Today we are once again excited to have Dr./LtCol/All-around critical care guru Sam Galvagno. In addition to publishing in multiple major journals, defending the country, maintaining FOUR board certifications, AND maintaining a PhD in Clinical Research; Dr. Galvagno somehow finds time away from his job as Associate Director of the University of ...

Sam Galvagno- Osmotherapy: Agents to know for your next "Brain Code"

Today we are fortunate that Dr. Daniel Herr, Chief of Surgical Critical Care services and Director of the Cardiac Surgery/Heart-Lung Transplant ICU here at the University of Maryland and overall critical care genius. Today Dr. Herr tackles a topic that often stares us right in the face, offering us all the knowledge we could ever need to treat patients, and yet we ignore it: End Tidal CO2!!

Herr: You think you know ETCO2?!?

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