Critical Care
Medicines Information Resources
DRAFT
July 2012
© Rosalind Tindale
rostindale@yahoo.co.uk
IMPORTANT NOTE
When using any of these resources, be sure to
check that units quoted are not inconsistent with
those used in your workplace. Also ensure that
only current information is used.
work.
[[Advice will be included about consulting general resources, such
as Micromedex, Lexi-Comp, BNF, etc and point-of-care facilities
such as UpToDate, Dynamed, etc. Also about finding current
clinical practice guidelines, systematic reviews, protocols and
algorithms through resources such as the NELM, Trip Database,
PubMed Clinical Queries, Embase and the Internet generally
(emphasising the importance of the credibility of websites). ]]
Resources relating specifically to drug therapy
A number of the following are available electronically, including for handheld applications

Handbook of Drugs in Intensive Care Paw and Shulman (Cambridge University Press, UK)

Handbook of ICU Therapy McConachie (Cambridge University Press, UK)

Anesthesiology & Critical Care Drug Handbook Baughman (Lexi-Comp, USA)

Pocket Guide to Critical Care Pharmacotherapy Papadopoulos (Humana Press, USA)

Current Critical Care Diagnosis and Treatment Bongard and Vintch (McGraw-Hill, USA)

Handbook of Critical Care Drug Therapy Susla et al (LWW, USA)

Critical Care Therapeutics Elliott (ed) (Pharmaceutical Press, UK) [[1999 - any update in
the wind??]]

UCL Hospitals Injectable Medicines Administration Guide University College London
Hospitals/UCLH Pharmacy Department (Wiley-Blackwell, UK)

Critical Care Intravenous Infusion Drug Handbook Algozzine, Lilly and Algozzine (Mosby,
USA)

Handbook on Injectable Drugs Trissel (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists,
USA)

Australian Injectable Drugs Handbook (Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia)

Minimum Infusion Volumes for Fluid Restricted Critically Ill Patients UKCPA Critical Care
Group ACCESS FREE
Enteral feeding tubes and swallowing difficulties

The NEWT Guidelines (Wrexham Maelor Pharmacy Department, UK) - administration of
medication to patients with enteral feeding tubes or swallowing difficulties.

Handbook of Drug Administration via Enteral Feeding Tubes White and Bradnam
(Pharmaceutical Press, UK)

Oral Dosage Forms That Should Not Be Crushed Mitchell (Institute for Safe Medication
Practices/ISMP, USA) Access free

Do Not Crush Vincent (Wollongong Hospital Pharmacy, Australia)

NEEMMC Guidelines for Tablet Crushing and Administration via Enteral Feeding
Tubes (Colchester Medicines Information, UK) Access free

Administering Medicines through Enteral Feeding Tubes (Royal Hospitals, Belfast, UK)
Dosage charts and other information - Websites, including many that are
access-free
The following are just some of the Websites providing this type of
information from reputable organisations. Many are access-free.
Dosages and other important information from all previously unfamiliar
Websites should, for safety, be double-checked with another source.
Also, as already stressed, it is important, when using any of these
resources, that units quoted are checked for consistency with those
used in your area and that only current information is used.
Direct Web-links are provided for these resources:
.

Drug Protocols - Intensive Care Coordination & Monitoring Unit (ICCMU) Department of
Health, NSW Government (Australia) Access free

Critical Care Drug Manual, Wellington Hospital, New Zealand Intensive Care Unit - this
Website states that it has been written by an intensivist and that “All doses have been
checked independently by two specialists”. Access free

Drugs and Infusions: in Royal Adelaide Hospital Intensive Care Unit Medical Manual
(Australia) [[2012 Part 3, page 66]] Access free

Drug Monographs Critical Care Trauma Centre, London Health Sciences Centre (Canada)
Access free

IV Medication Guidelines John Dempsey Hospital, University of Connecticut Health Center
(USA) Access free

Critical Care Intravenous Medications Chart, Saint Joseph Health System (USA) Access free

Emergency Drugs In Anesthesiology And Critical Care Medicine (Department of
Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Texas, USA) Access free

State of Delaware Paramedic Pharmacology Manual (Delaware Office of Emergency
Medical Services, USA) Access free

IV Dilution Quick Search, GlobalRPh.com [[I have included this here as the site has a HON
Code - let me know if you agree (or disagree) regarding its inclusion]]

Compatibility of Commonly Used Intravenous Drugs Cayo (Pharmacy Practice News, USA)
article includes extensive charts Access free

To Mix or Not to Mix: Compatibilities of Parenteral Drug Solutions Murney (Australian
Prescriber) Access free

Reconstitution and Delivery of Critical Care Drugs Appendix IV, Parenteral Drug Therapy
Manual (Pharmaceutical Sciences Clinical Services Unit, Vancouver General Hospital,
Canada) Access free

Calculators - eg, Vancomycin Dosing, Aminoglycoside dosing, etc SurgicalCriticalCare.net

Critical Care Medicine Tutorials (Neligan, University of Pennsylvania, USA) Access free
(Note author’s disclaimer)

The Website GlobalRPh.com also lists a range of recommended Websites relating to critical
care drug therapy. This site has a HON code; however, professional judgment and an index
of suspicion should always be maintained using any secondarily-referred resources.
General handbooks and texts - critical care medicine
[[Ideally, I only want to include about three or four in this category - would be grateful to know
which you and your clinical team would suggest, even if not listed here]]

Oxford Handbook of Critical Care Singer and Webb (Oxford (UK)

Oh's Intensive Care Manual Bersten and Soni (Butterworth-Heinemann, USA)

Acute and Critical Care Medicine at a Glance Leach (Wiley, UK)

Clinical Intensive Care and Acute Medicine Hillman and Bishop (Cambridge, UK) [[online
rather than print publication appears to be the most current – 2009]]

Tarascon Internal Medicine & Critical Care Pocketbook Hamilton (Tarascon, USA)

Critical Care Handbook of the Massachusetts General Hospital Bigatello et al (LWW, USA)

Principles of Critical Care Hall, Schmidt and Wood (McGraw-Hill, USA)

Critical Care Medicine: Principles of Diagnosis and Management in the Adult Parrillo and
Dellinger (Elsevier, USA)

The ICU Book Marino (LWW, USA)

Little ICU Book Marino and Sutin (LWW, USA)

Manual of Intensive Care Medicine Irwin and Rippe (LWW, USA)

Irwin and Rippe's intensive care medicine Irwin and Rippe (LWW, USA)

Critical Care Medicine: The Essentials Marini and Wheeler (LWW, USA)

Civetta, Taylor and Kirby's Critical Care Gabrielli, Layon and Yu (LWW, USA)

Textbook of Critical Care Vincent et al (Saunders, USA)
Also, for updating:
Intensive Care Monitor - summaries in context the most significant research etc in Critical
Care.
[[Seen this one described as excellent however I can’t see that there is a recent edition?? Critical
Care Medicine: Perioperative Management Murray]]