Critical Care professionals frequently face challenging situations that require leadership, skill and the ability to respond with flexibility and innovative thought.

BEST PRACTICES

Guidelines

Following are current completed works from the joint CCCS/CCCTG Committee on Clinical Practice.

Clinical practice guidelines for the use of noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation and noninvasive continuous positive airway pressure in the acute care setting

Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline for the Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia - Annals of Internal Medicine, Volume 141, Number 4, August 2004

Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines for Nutrition Support in Mechanically Ventilated, Critically Ill Adult Patients

CCCS H1N1 Resources & New Guidelines

Additional documents produced by CCCS or other organizations and endorsed by CCCS

NDD:
Brain arrest: the neurological determination of death and organ donor management in Canada
http://www.cma.ca/index.php?ci_id=54490&la_id=1&cpgId=9961

Medical Management to Optimize Donor Organ Potential : A Canadian Forum
www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/54490/la_id/1.htm?cpgId=4976

DCD - Donation after Cardiocirculatory Death : A Canadian Forum
www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/54490/la_id/1.htm?cpgId=4974

BBF in NDD - Brain Blood Flow in the Neurological Determination of Death: Expert Consensus Meeting Report
www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/54490/la_id/1.htm?cpgId=5255

Guidelines for Categorization of Services for the Critically Ill Patient - Adapted from the Critical Care Operations Group, a collaboration of London Teaching Hospitals

Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2008 - Critical Care Medicine 2008, Volume 36, No. 1

Other Guidelines
 CMA Infobase with Critical Care keyword

CCCS/CCCTG Committee

Membership:

Deborah Cook

Daren Heyland

Sangeeta Mehta

Jamie Hutchison

Juan Ronco

Michael Jaka

Noel Gibney

Richard Hall

Sean Keenan

Roman Jaeschke

Jim Kutsogiannis

Chairs:

John Muscedere

Taz Sinuf