A summary of my experiences at the second and third days of the ESICM.

Links include:

Here is the IMPACT calculator for prognosticating in traumatic brain injury

For the Brain Tissue Oxygen Monitoring in Traumatic Brain Injury (BOOST 2) go here

For Simon Finfer's talk on the DECRA study click here

For lung ultrasound, you should look at both the Bouhamed paper and the Sartori paper, both here in fulltext for free.

There are a few lung ultrasound videos out there too, like this one

The BLUE protocol is here

Brain trauma foundation guidelines are here

Free fulltext of ECASS III is here

Martin Smith on intracerebral haemorrhage is all summarised here

A good summary of treating refractory status epilepticus is here

Some good neuro papers from the last year:

Cerebral tissue oxygenation measured by two different probes: challenges and interpretation
For the paper on measuring brain temperature with MRI spectroscopy, go here
Ultrasound of the optic nerve sheath to estimate ICP is here
Invasive and noninvasive assessment of cerebral oxygenation in patients with severe traumatic brain injury
This is probably a more useful paper on the risk factors for delirium after cardiac surgery
The bispectral index and suppression ratio are very early predictors of neurological outcome during therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest
Also see our presentation on this topic here

Top haemodynamic papers:

Top Mechanical ventilation papers:

Top ICU infection/micro papers from the last year:

Best of metabolic and sepsis articles last year:

On TEGs and ROTEM:

6. ESCIM Conference Berlin 2011 Day 2 & 3

Neuro Resus