SKH Intubation Checklist for COVID patients

SKH Intubation Checklist for COVID patients (2 pages)

Critical Care Physiotherapy in COVID -19

Thanks to PT Sarah Goh and the SKH Physiotherapy Department !


Basics of critical care physiotherapy in COVID-19 and Summary of recommendations

Clinical practice recommendations from Australian Physiotherapy Association ( OpenAccess)

ICU Resources for Nurses

• ICU Refresher for nurses: 

Courtesy of SKH Nursing Education and Development Department

1. ICU Equipment
2. Haemodynamic Procedures
3. Respiratory Procedures
4. Infection Control (COVID-19)

• ARDS Ventilation : 

Made by the SKH ICU Nursing team

1. Prone positioning in ARDS demonstration

ICU Equipment

Defibrillators -ZOLL X Series
Defibrilators - ZOLL R Series
Transport Ventilator - Monnal T60
Pumps- Syramed

Respiratory Procedures

1. Assisting in intubation
2. Assisting in extubation
3. Performing ETT suction ( in-line catheter)
4. Obtain sputum sample via ETT ( closed system)
5. Effective BVM technique
6. EtCO2 monitoring setup and calibration

ACLS Algorithms

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support from Singapore National Resuscitation Council
( Thanks Dr Nanthini)

COVID Patient Transfer Checklist

SKH ICU COVID patient transfer checklist

Transport Of The Critically Ill Patient

Transport Of The Critically Ill Patient (Video - 5mins 29seconds)

Featured : ARDS : Ventialtion, Proning and other references

1. Non Invasive Ventilation
2. Invasive Mechanical Ventilation Basics
3. ARDS Basics
4. ARDSNet Quick Reference Card
5. Tidal Volume Calculation Chart
6. APRV mode of ventilation
7. Respiratory assessment in mechanical ventilation 
8. Proning positioning in ARDS videos :
• From SKH ICU Nursing
• From SGH
• From SCCM
9. Weaning from mechanical ventilator
10. Ventilator Basics Teaching Video (10mins)

Lines and Tubes

CVC Insertion basics ( Thanks Dr Yi Lin)

Inter-costal drain dressing basics ( Thanks Sr Linda)

Inter-costal drain nursing video ( Thanks Sr Linda)

Nutrition

Nutrition Basics ( Credit : Ms Cherie Tong and SKH Dietetics Department)

SKH Feeds Table

Nutrition Support Therapy in SICU & Management of High gastric residual volume ( From SICU one page summary)

About Us

Welcome to ICU@Sengkang

(previously ICUbasics.com)

This portal is designed to provide a bare bones version of essential ICU topics for novice doctors and nurses at SKH. We hope to put together the essential stuff needed for a non-ICU doctor/ nurse to hit the ground running and manage ICU patients during an exigency.

It is a work in progress and the links will be updated once more content becomes available.

The site is a static HTML page hosted on Google domains. Formatting and multimedia content are kept to a minimum for a fast, less bandwidth-intensive experience over mobile and ease of maintenance. This project is currently in beta and we hope to improve it as we develop more content. If you have a workflow summary / cheat sheet/ flash card for the ICU greenhorn that you are willing to share, you can contact us using the mail snippet below this page and we can host the content here / link to your page with due credits.

We hope to develop this into a repository of quick reference resources over time. Most of the pages are authored by Drs Lee YL, Wong J, Sharma K, Gare PS, Ho VK, Lie SA, Vimal V and RT Ms Cunanan AK.  Other individual contributors are credited under the respective topics.

Some of the flow charts/ flash cards  have been simplified and certain in-depth aspects intentionally ignored as this meant to be a survival guide for novice ICU staff. This portal is meant as a general guide and is not meant to replace standard textbooks, guidelines, hospital workflows or clinical judgement. When in doubt, call for help. 

The source material is mostly our institutional and personal teaching slides. We have tried to attribute the orginal authors wherever possible. If any copyrighted material has inadvertently crept in, please feel free to contact us using the email snippet below and the affected content will be taken down.


Cheers and stay safe!



Vishnu