Table 1.

Specific critical care subjects

Subject area	Search terms
Sepsis and infectious disease	“sepsis” “septic*” “nosocomial” “blood stream”
Mechanical ventilation and lung injury	“ventilation” “respiratory failure” “pulmonary failure” “weaning” “extubation” “ventilator” “PEEP” “positive end expiratory pressure” “noninvasive” “ARDS” “respiratory-distress” “lung injury”
Monitors	“hemodynamic-monitor” “CVC” “physiologic-monitor” “noninvasive-monitor” “catheter*” “central venous” “pulmonary-artery-catheter” “Swan-Ganz” “ultrasound” “Doppler” “pressure variation”
Mental status	“coma” “brain-damage” “brain-injury” “ICU AND delirium” “ICU AND sedation”
Physiologic predictors	“physiology score” “severity of illness” “severity of disease” “mortality-predict” “severity-score”
Organ dysfunction	“organ-failure” “organ-dysfunction” “MODS” “MSOF”
Resource utilization	“intensivist” “leap frog” “ICU-administration” “critical care management” “ICU management”
Kidney injury	“kidney-injury” “renal-failure” “dialysis” “renal-replacement-therapy” “CVVH*” “CRRT”
Resuscitation	“life-support” “cardiac-arrest” “cpr” “resuscitation” “cardiac massage” “cardiac-life-support” “fluid” “saline” “lactated” “albumin” “colloid” “crystalloid”
Shock (excluding infectious causes)	“shock” “hypoperfusion” “CHF” “heart-failure”
Transfusions	“transfusion” “fluid-therapy”

⁎Denotes any form of the word preceding the symbol, i.e., septic shock, septic.