Friends,
Over the next several months we'll be adding ~26 additional chapters to the neurology section of the IBCC. The ultimate goal is to create a complete neurocritical care textbook that is fully integrated into the IBCC. (You can preview the final table of contents here.)
Why more neurocrit? The brain is one of the top-four organs in critical care (heart, lung, brain, kidneys – resuscitation and patient outcomes usually focus on these organs). Nonetheless, neurology often receives minimal attention within internal-medicine-based critical care training pathways (in the United States, at least).
The vast majority of critically ill patients are managed outside of a dedicated neuro ICU. Even if your hospital is large enough to have a neuro ICU, patients in other “non-neuro” ICUs have lots of neurological problems (e.g., new-onset strokes, delirium, seizures, anoxic brain injury, neuromuscular weakness). So any resuscitationist should be comfortable managing neurological critical illness.
The IBNCC will be reviewed by Richard Choi (@rkchoi), Casey Albin (@caseyalbin), and Neha Dangayach (@drdangayach) – all of whom are neurology-trained neurointensivists. They will be providing pre- and/or post-publication comments that will help keep me honest (I have a decade of experience attending a combined med/cardiac/neuro ICU – yet lack formal training in neurology). Acknowledgements at the bottom of individual chapters indicate which reviewers have contributed to those chapters (right below the pitfalls section). They will also be joining our podcasts exploring upcoming chapters.
Of course, all readers are encouraged to add comments and further editorial as well. Please post these in the comments section of the associated blog posts. I'd especially encourage any neurocritical care folks to follow along and support our efforts by adding expert commentary.
Some of the links within the new chapters won't work initially, until additional chapters are posted (because the 26 chapters have been designed as an interconnected bloc). All the chapters should be posted within ~6 months, at which point the links will work.
Other stuff will remain the same. The IBCC will remain free & open-access (thanks to Scott Weingart's support that keeps the servers spinning). If you don't have a free IBCC “app” on your phone, you can create one as described here.
The IBNCC first draft will hopefully be done before 2023. Subsequently there will be a more diverse array of IBCC updates and blogs on various topics (both neurologic and non-neurologic).
cheers,
the IBNCC team
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Thanks for everything, I love this site, a hug from Brazil
Outstanding. I love your podcast and am looking forward to this section!!!!
You are amazing…don’t let anyone tell you otherwise! We love and use the IBCC and podcasts as a guide in veterinary emergency and critical care.
Best thing to happen to EMCRIT
Amazing. Great work.
I have asked before and ask again. Any chance you could team up with someone and expand IBCC to SICU and trauma ICU topics as well?
Agreed that would be amazing!
Spactacular!