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Critical Care: & more useful links

Critical Care Library Resources

Defibrillator Guides

Publications, Reports, Articles & Self Directed Learning

ECG Self-Directed Learning Package - compiled by Lydia Cobham, NHW (2018).  This package is designed to support learners in consolidating and increasing existing ECG knowledge to facilitate early recognition and response to abnormal ECG waveforms.
 

Jensen, H. I., Halvorsen, K., Jerpseth, H., Fridh, I., & Lind, R. (2020). Practice Recommendations for End-of-Life Care in the Intensive Care Unit. Critical Care Nurse, 40(3), 14–22. https://doi.org/10.4037/ccn2020834

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Professional Associations

 

 

The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society is the leading advocate on all intensive care related matters. ANZICS leads the world in intensive care research through its Clinical Trials Group and patient databases, including the Adult Patient Database, the Paediatric Intensive Care Registry and Critical Care Resources. The Society is devoted to all aspects of intensive care medical practice through ongoing profes​sional education, the provision of leadership in medical settings, clinical research and analysis of critical care resources.

 

 

The Australian College of Critical Care Nurses Ltd (ACCCN) is a not for profit membership-based organisation representing over 2,300 nurses nationally. The College’s members work across the critical care clinical spectrum, principally in the area of intensive care, in clinical, educational, management, and research roles.

 

 

 

 

The Intensive Care Foundation was formed by the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) in 1990.The Intensive Care Foundation is dedicated to improving the care of critically ill patients by raising funds for clinical research projects as well as the education of health professionals responsible for intensive care. Our ultimate aim is to improve the number and quality of lives saved in Intensive Care Units each year. Access their website at this link

The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC) is a bi-national intensive care clinical research methods centre. The ANZIC-RC assists with the design, funding and execution of clinical trials. Advice and assistance is available from experienced intensive care unit (ICU) researchers, data management/bio-statistical consultants, project managers, epidemiologists and health economists. The Centre coordinates and conducts comprehensive research programs including observational studies; feasibility projects; and large multi-centred, interventional, randomised controlled trials. It has the ability to support small, medium and large clinical trials. Access their website at this link