Critical Care Teaching
  • Welcome
  • Week 1: Induction
    • NUH Critical Care
    • UHL Critical Care
  • Airway and breathing
    • Week 2: Airway and oxygenation
    • Week 3: Ventilation
    • Week 4: Weaning and rehabilitation
    • Week 5: Challenging scenarios in ventilation
  • Cardiac disease and physiology
    • Week 6: Cardiovascular manipulation
    • Week 7: Cardiac arrest and post-arrest management
    • Week 8: Cardiology on intensive care
    • Week 9: Renal replacement therapy
  • Neurointensive care
    • Week 10: Head injuries
    • Week 11: Confusion, delirium, and strokes
    • Week 12: Seizures and encephalitis
    • Week 13: Brain stem death, devastating brain injuries, and organ donation
  • Everything else
    • Week 14: Fluids and nutrition
    • Week 15: Surgical principles on intensive care
    • Week 16: Marginal gains and critical care
    • Week 17: Everything sepsis
  • Surgical specialities month
    • Week 18: Upper GI and thoracic surgery
    • Week 19: Major trauma and burns
    • Week 20: Massive intra-abdominal surgery
    • Week 21: Maternity and obstetrics
  • Medical Specialities Month
    • Week 22: Haematology and oncology
    • Week 23: Respiratory medicine
    • Week 24: Microbiology
    • Week 25: End of life care on intensive care
  • Wrapping up
    • Week 26: Reflect, and pay it forward
    • About and credits
Powered by GitBook
On this page
  • Things to consider
  • Resources
  • Have we missed something?

Was this helpful?

  1. Medical Specialities Month

Week 24: Microbiology

PreviousWeek 23: Respiratory medicineNextWeek 25: End of life care on intensive care

Last updated 3 years ago

Was this helpful?

Things to consider

  • The bugs: Bacteria, viruses, fungii, parasites (prions?)

  • The drugs: Antimicrobials and adjuncts

  • The tests: Cultures, CRP, PCT, PCR, etc

  • The ward round: Monitoring, escalating/deescalation of antibiotics

Resources

Bugs:

  • (UpToDate)

  • , , and (ATOTW)

  • (BJAEd, Drs Beed and Sherman)

Drugs:

  • (BJAEd)

  • (BJAEd, Drs Johnson and Banks)

  • (Anaesthesia UK)

  • (ATOTW)

  • (ATOTW)

  • Quick ref: (Wellington ICU)

  • Quick ref: (Anaesthesia UK) and (FRCA Mindmaps)

  • (IBCC)

Everything else:

Have we missed something?

Know a great resource or teaching aid that we've missed? and help make this page even better.

Infections and antibiotic resistance in critical care
Critical care microbiology
common critical care associated infections
VAP
Fungal infections in the critically ill
Principles of antibiotic therapy
Antibiotic stewardship in critical care
Antibiotic prescribing
Microbiology for anaesthetists: Antibiotics and antivirals
Antibiotics in critical care
Antibiotic susceptibilities in critical care
Classification of antibiotics
mindmap of activities
Is beta-lactam allergy real?
CRP vs PCT
A basic guide to real time PCR
Let us know