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COMING FALL 2009!

Editor: Dani Hackner, MD Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles Published bi-monthly

ICU Director (ICUD) serves as a resource for critical care unit directors, intensivists, and ICU managers, offering practical information regarding clinical management and unit operations. Topics include assuring effective practice, enhancing leadership and team-building, policy development and implementing change, finances and planning, staffing and retention, quality improvement and safety, education and regulatory compliance. ICUD also publishes peer reviewed papers on clinical conditions and decisions that may have an impact on clinical outcomes, efficiency of ICU operations and management processes.

General Topic Coverage:

Administration / Management Instrumentation / Monitoring /Equipment Clinical Care Outcomes Conditions Patient Flow Diagnosis Patient Management Drugs / Drug Delivery Systems Professional Issues ICU Metrics and Compliance Professional Practice ICU Scoring Systems Staffing ICU/CCU Venues

ICUD also invites your photographs for cover and internal use. A signed release is required. Credit will be given in the journal.

Manuscript submission can be sent to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/icud

For manuscript inquiries, please contact the editor at [email protected] Detailed Topical Map

Administration / Management Budgeting Organ system failure Medical ICU Code status and advance directives Polyneuropathy / myopathy Neonatal ICU Conflict management Polytrauma Neurological/neurosurgical ICU Efficiency measures Pleural disorders/effusions/thoracostomy Overnight Intensive Recovery Equipment monitoring / maintenance Pneumonia, CAP, HAP, NP Pediatric ICU Finance Pressure ulcers / decubitus ulcers Respiratory ICU Health conservation Pulmonary hypertension Surgical ICU Healthcare reform and critical care Respiratory failure Trauma ICU Healthcare worker staffing and Sedation / Agitation management shortages Sepsis / Septic shock Instrumentation / Equipment ICU utilization Shock Cardiac monitors Industry profiles Stress hyperglycemia Defibrillators Infection control Stress ulcer Dialysis / ultrapheresis / In-service, training and education Systemic inflammatory response syndrome continuous renal replacement Materials Management Transplantation critical care issues therapy Multidisciplinary coordination Ventilator-associated lung injury Endotracheal tubes Operations management Ventilator-associated pneumonia Equipment safety Patient flow Ventricular assist devices Pacemakers Physician-nurse relations Pulse oximetry applications Planning & Policy development Diagnosis Plasma pheresis Protocols and Pathways Arterial blood gas Resuscitation devices Purchasing practices Arterial catheter Telemetry Quality control / performance Blood cultures Testing and monitoring improvement Central venous catheter Therapeutic hypothermia / Regulatory compliance / JACHO Noninvasive cardiac output monitoring Cooling devices guidelines Noninvasive assessments of filling pressures Training Skills training Pulmonary artery catheter Ultrasound in critical care Staffing/HR topics Screening cultures Ventilators: invasive, Staff recruitment Transthoracic echo and TEE noninvasive, high frequency Worker environmental safety Ultrasound oscillatory.

Conditions Drugs Performance and Quality Acute liver failure / fulminant liver failure Analgesics Management Acute renal failure Antibiotics Acuity Acute respiratory distress syndrome Anticoagulants Admissions & discharges Adrenal insufficiency Antithrombotics Best practices / current trends Airway management Blood products Biomarkers Anaphylactic / anaphylactoid reactions Inotropes Clinical decision making Cardiogenic shock Intravenous fluids Core measures / hospital quality Cardiomyopathy Neuromuscular-blocking drugs measures Coma Recombinant activated protein C Datasets and registries Complications Sedatives Evidence-based practice Corticosteroid insufficiency Stress ulcer prevention drugs Patient safety Delirium Vasopressors Sentinel events Distributive shock Significant adverse events Feeding, entera feeding, parenteral ICU Scoring Systems Six sigma approaches feeding, refeeding APACHE II Simulation error-testing Fungemia Glasgow Coma Scale Total parenteral nutrition Glycemic control PIM2 Triage Goal-directed therapy SAPS II Iatrogenic SAPS III Professional Issues Induced coma SOFA Career development Intracranial hemorrhage Ethical dilemmas Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus ICU/CCU Venues Extenders, advance practice aureus Burn Wounds ICU nurses, physician assistants Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome Cardiac Surgery ICU Leadership development Stroke CardioVascular ICU Legal issues Coronary Care Unit Medical staff relations Design of intensive care units Physician and staff wellbeing Medical Surgical ICU Research / human subjects protection