In-Hospital Defibrillation - Should non-critical care nurses perform defibrillation? This site has links to articles, letters and research.

CCRN Net - Includes articles, index of resources, chat, photography, and games.

Gloria's Critical Care Resources - A critical care web page with links to related sites such as cardiology, trauma and anesthesiology.

Critical Care Connection - Includes drug information, current research, and information on specific topics such as prioritizing, chest pain evaluation and treatment, and Swan-Ganz interpretation and management. [Springhouse Corporation]

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.

Intensive Care and Trauma Unit Online Journal - Offers articles and calendar of events. (McGill University Health Center) [English, French]

Joint Statement on Resuscitative Interventions - Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) has prepared this joint statement in collaboration with other national health related organizations

Critical Caring - Contains ICU/ED/EMS links, including Pediatric/NICU, critical care and emergency links.

ICUs and Nursing Web Journal - Contains critical care and emergency related articles, associations, conferences, drug information, nursing links, online journals, medical and nursing cartoons.

Acid-Base Balance: A Tutorial - Includes physiology and treatment, and the history of ABG analysis.

Online Pulmonary Textbook - Reviews pulmonary anatomy, disease and tumors.

Intensive Care FAQs - Files on IABP, PA lines, intubation, chest tubes, pressors, and pacemakers, targeted at new ICU/Critical Care nurses. [DOC files]

Cardiac Trace Tutorials - Has interactive tutorials on hemodynamic waveforms, and the effect of cardiac rhythms on hemodynamics.

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.

Pulmonary Support - Explains who can benefit from advanced ventilator modes and noninvasive respiratory support.

Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring - Reviews normal and abnormal waveforms, cardiac output and continuous cardiac output monitoring.

Virtual Critical Care Nurses ICQ List - Chat with friends and colleagues online.

My Tool Box - Offers definitions and concepts pertaining to intensive care. Includes concepts of preload, afterload, cardiac output, and hemodynamic monitoring.

Pulse Oximetry - Describes how it works, calibration, and performance considerations.

Pulmonary Embolus - A multimedia textbook with presentation, diagnosis via scan, CT and pulmonary angiography, with multiple case studies.

Critical Thinking in Critical Care - Interactive scenarios of bedside decisions, interventions, and prioritizing care.

SpringNet: Cardiac Monitoring/Arrythmia Recognition - Offers articles on identifying arrhythmias, how to record an accurate EKG, and identifying wide-complex tachycardias.

NetNurseNotes - Offers articles on acid-base balance, interpreting arterial blood gases, and shock.