critical care (intensive care medicine)

see also:

• CICM website
• transfer of the critically ill adult patient
• choking / respiratory arrest / cardiac arrest / BLS / ALS / CPR
• assisted ventilation
• Victorian REACH metropolitan critical care and mental health bed availability
• Victorian Chris Critical Health Resource Information System critical care bed availability website
• VicTAG register of life saving drugs in Victorian hospitals (pdf)
• Australian Resuscitation Council
• emergency medical retrieval services for transfer of the critically ill
• LITFL - Critical Care Compendium

• a new medical College, the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (CICM) is in the process of being established with its first Board Meeting in Feb 2009.
• this College will be the responsible body for the training and certification of Intensive Care Physicians.
• Fellows of the College will be entitled to use the post-nominals FCICM.