Recommended Clinical Resources
The guidelines, journals, podcasts, textbooks, and educational platforms I use and recommend for trauma, surgical critical care, and acute care surgery.
Trauma Guidelines
EAST
Practice management guidelines covering major trauma topics, screening, diagnosis, and treatment.
Best for: Evidence-based trauma recommendations.
ACS Trauma Quality Programs
A core resource for trauma-system standards, verification, quality improvement, and clinical guidance.
Best for: Trauma program standards and systems-based care.
Western Trauma Association
Practical algorithms and expert guidance on common trauma-management problems.
Best for: Clear, clinically useful decision pathways.
Joint Trauma System
Clinical practice guidelines developed for high-acuity trauma and austere environments.
Best for: Resuscitation, hemorrhage control, and operational trauma care.
JTS Clinical Practice Guidelines
Critical Care
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Guidelines, education, and professional resources covering the full spectrum of critical care.
Best for: Major critical-care guidelines and consensus statements.
EMCrit / Internet Book of Critical Care
A practical critical-care resource with a strong focus on physiology, resuscitation, and bedside decision-making.
Best for: Rapid review of complex ICU topics.
European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
Guidelines, education, and research from the international critical-care community.
Best for: Contemporary ICU guidance and European perspectives.
Journals
Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
A core journal for trauma surgery, acute care surgery, resuscitation, and trauma systems.
JAMA Surgery
High-impact research across surgery, outcomes, quality, and health systems.
Critical Care Medicine
Major clinical trials, guidelines, and research in intensive care.
New England Journal of Medicine
Landmark trials and major advances across medicine, surgery, and critical care.
Podcasts I Recommend
EMCrit
Resuscitation, critical care, physiology, and clinical controversies.
Behind the Knife
High-quality surgical education across trauma, acute care surgery, and the broader surgical specialties.
Trauma ICU Rounds
Whole Blood
A practical review of where whole blood fits in modern trauma resuscitation.
Damage Control Resuscitation
The principles behind balanced resuscitation, hemorrhage control, and prevention of the lethal diamond.
Shock
A practical framework for recognizing hypoperfusion, identifying the mechanism, restoring perfusion, and reassessing response.
The Deadly Dozen
A structured approach to recognizing and managing life-threatening thoracic trauma.
Last reviewed: September 2026