• Course readings - Fall, 2007
  • Course syllabus  
  • History of Soap  
  • Textbook animations 
  • Pharmacology (NUR448) links  
  • Recommendations on End-of-Life care article
  • Intensive Care Nursing Frequently Asked Questions
  • Medscape website - you have to register, but it's worth it for free (easy) Medline
  • ACLS resource
  • The 6-second ECG site
  • ECG leads - diagram
  • Basic ECG course  
  • The Auscultation Assistant - site for heart sounds
  • Myocardial infarction animation 
  • Congestive heart failure website 
  • Cardiac gene therapy article
  • Vaccination information - useful for community health
  • Immune system website 
  • Critical care monitoring article 
  • Article on cardiogenic shock
  • Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome - the role of the gut
  • Intestinal ischemia article 
  • Splanchnic circulation .pdf file 
  • Article on sepsis, septic shock and SIRS
  • WHO website on shock in pregnancy 
  • Eli Lilly's Sepsis.com website - text and video regarding sepsis
  • Advances in Sepsis website
  • Coagulation and fibrinolysis cascade
  • Coagulation cascade in sepsis    
  • Final common clotting pathway 
  • Insulin therapy and glucose monitoring
  • Medtronics insulin pump information
  • Oral diabetes medications
  • Types of insulin
  • Normal Regulation of blood glucose
  • Critical care nutrition 
  • Basal metabolic rate calculator
  • Patient education on DKA  
  • Article on Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic Nonketotic coma  
  • Psychiatric malpractice article
  • Diagrams of the kidney
  • Acute tubular necrosis
  • Acute renal failure - from Medline
  • History of hemodialysis  
  • Hemodialysis website  
  • Continuous renal replacement therapy 
  • CRRT quiz (from Australia)  
  • Euroscore for CABG mortality risk
  • Understanding GI bleeding - for patient education
  • Basics of DIC
  • Anticoagulation resources webpage
  • Info on influenza from CDC
  • ARDS Fact Sheet  
  • International Ventilator Users Network  
  • Use of CPAP and BiPAP in acute respiratory failure 
  • LiquiVent for Acute Lung Injury/ARDS
  • What is C-reactive protein?  
  • Disaster triage tags
  • Disaster Nursing from U Texas
  • Society of Trauma Nurses useful weblinks
  • The cost of gunshot wounds
  • Everything you ever wanted to know about spinal cord injuries
  • Statistics on spinal cord injury
  • Animation of kyphoplasty - treatment of acute vertebral compression fractures
  • Thoracic trauma  - check out the entire trauma website
  • Heart/lungs diagram  
  • Abdominal trauma  
  • Fluid choices for trauma resuscitation  
  • Diagnostic peritoneal lavage
  • Burns and drunk driving ad   Other burn images
  • Thermal injuries
  • Thermal injury article
  • Skin diagram  
  • Fluid resuscitation of burn patients   
  • Skin substitutes - skin substitute article
  • Face transplant news story  
  • Medtronic - the medical device company
  • HLA matching for bone marrow transplant
  • United Network for Organ Sharing 
  • New York Organ Donation Network
  • Starzl Transplantation Institute website at U of Pitt
  • Transplant rejection article
  • Immunology of transplant rejection
  • Cloning of pigs for xenotransplant  
  • Frontline: Organ Farm 
  • Anti-rejection medications
  • Risk of rejection higher if transplant organ comes from female donor - article
  • Graft vs Host disease
  • Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society
  • Future healthcare technologies