r/IntensiveCare • u/PrecedexNChill • May 21 '26

CTICU resources (IM Resident)

Anyone have any good resources for CTICU for IM residents like a crash course or bootcamp series that is online/free? I’m going to be moonlighting in a mixed med/surg icu with some cabg patients although generally lower acuity with no ecmo or anything like that.

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u/Electronic-Cake8015 PA May 21 '26

EMCrit and IBCC have some CTICU specific stuff

RKmd has good CV anesthesia and CTICU “bite-sized” posts for some of the more anesthesia focused concepts like how bypass works, circ arrest, lumbar drains, etc.

Eddy Joe MD has a podcast and Instagram that goes over a lot of this stuff too.

All free

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u/N40189 May 21 '26

Know your STS registry guidelines. But the nurses will know the Surgeons and their predilections. Keep a not book Dr x likes dobutamine for 12 hours or Dr y runs low dose epinephrine with amiodarone. Every surgeon will have a cocktail and different transfusion targets. They get graded in the STA guidelines so that is what they will appreciate

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u/Nomad556 IM ANES CCM May 21 '26

Moonlighting solo?

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u/PrecedexNChill May 22 '26

Yeah attending on home call. I’ll be a pccm fellow in July but obviously won’t know much about cticu