About Open Critical Care

OpenCriticalCare.org (beta) was launched in August 2020 as a repository for reliable, open-access critical care learning tools with relevance to resource-variable settings. In response to COVID-19, we have built an open-access Resource Library of critical care educational resources for medical educators and learners as well as a COVID19 Guidelines Dashboard, and Oxygen Calculator. The library includes compiled and original content that can be used for training at various levels and multiple healthcare cadres, and are suited for independent learning and as well as integration into institutional training programs and curricula.

In January 2021, we expanded our collaboration to include COVIDprotocols.org in partnership with teams from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Partners In Health.

You can read about the OCC team below or the COVIDprotocols.org team here.

COVID FAQ by WHO

COVID Chat by WHO

Sharing & Permissions

All content originally authored by OpenCriticalCare is created as Creative Commons 4.0 International Licensing, With Attribution and Non-Commercial.

Attribution should be “The OpenCriticalCare.org Project.”
You can modify or translate the tools (let us know if you need an alternative editable file format)
If you choose to modify an original OpenCriticalCare tool, please add to the credit ‘Adapted by ______’

Please review the copyright for content linked to but not authored by OpenCriticalCare.org.

Who We Are

OpenCriticalCare.org is a collaborative educational effort started by the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, the University of California San Francisco Anesthesia Division of Global Health Equity, the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences, and OPENPediatrics. It is led by UCSF under the USAID Sustaining Technical and Analytic Resources (STAR) and is being done as part of a broader collaboration with partners of USAID including including FHI 360, Jhpiego, and Palladium.

Our Team

Project Leads

Michael Lipnick, MD

Associate Professor, Anesthesia & Critical Care, University of California San Francisco

Emma Ayebale MBChB, M. Med

Instructor, Anesthesia & Critical Care, UW and Makerere University

William McKleroy, MD

Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UCSF

Editor, OCC COVID Guidelines Dashboard

Tyler Law, MD MSc

Assistant Professor, Anesthesia & Critical Care, University of California San Francisco

Contributors

Alejandra Echeto, MD

Anne Sommer

Medical Student, UCSF

Arthur Kwizera MBChB, M. Med

Senior Lecturer, Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Makerere University

Beth Riviello, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Attending Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Bhakti Hansoti, MBCHB, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Bunmi Okunlola, MD

Fellow, UCSF Anesthesia Division of Global Health Equity

Dr. Carolina Haylock-Loor

Director of Programs, World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists

Cornel Sendagire, MBChB, M. Med

Elise Delagnes, MD, MA Ed

UCSF Anesthesia

Ethan Bornstein, MD

Internal Medicine Physician, Indian Health Service, Navajo Nation - Chinle Comprehensive Health

Farrah Kashfipour, MSN MS RN CCRN

ICU Nurse, Stanford Health Care

Faye Evans, MD

Chair, Education Committee, World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists

Gayatri Singla

Contributor and Content Editor

Jeffrey Pearson, PharmD

Infectious Diseases Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Lekshmi Santhosh MD, MA

Assistant Professor, Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco

Lundy Campbell, MD

Marquela Guerra, MD

Anesthesia Critical Care, WFSA ICCM Committee Member - Panama

Maytinee Lilaonitkul, MBBS

Editor, Anesthesia Tutorial of the Week

Mohamed Seedahmed, MD, MPH

Pulmonary & CCM Fellow, UCSF

Mohamed Seedahmed, MD, MPH, FACP

Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellow, UCSF

Nicole Griffiths

Physical Therapy Student, UCSF

Paul Sonenthal, MD

Instructor in Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Rebecca Silvers, NP

Pediatric Critical Care Nurse Practitioner, UCSF

Rich Branson MS, RRT

Professor, Respiratory Care, University of Cincinatti

Rich Kallet, RRT

Robert Neighbour

Biomedical Engineering

Sam Percy, MD

University of California San Francisco HEAL Initiative Fellow

Shevin Jacob, MD, MPH

Senior Clinical Lecturer in Sepsis Research, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Sky Vanderburg, MD, MPH

Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellow, UCSF

Teresa Kortz, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UCSF

Tyler Law, MD

Vaibhav Upadhyay, MD, PhD

Fellow, UCSF

William Checkley, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, International Health, and Biostatistics; Director, Fogarty Global Health Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University; Director, Center for Global Non-Communicable Disease Research and Training, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins University

Operations

Leah Murphy, MPH

Project Manager

Jessica Crosby

Project Manager

This website is made possible, in part, through funding from USAID’s Sustaining Technical and Analytic Resources (STAR) project. The STAR project is a five-year cooperative agreement funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under Agreement No. 7200AA18CA00001. STAR is implemented by the Public Health Institute (PHI), in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University (JHU), University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH).

This site is intended to be educational in nature and is not a substitute for clinical decision making. It is the responsibility of the user to ensure all information contained herein is current and accurate by using published references. Some of the resources referenced on this site may be copyrighted by third parties as indicated. OpenCriticalCare.org collaborators shall not be responsible or liable for any loss, injury, claim, or damage of any kind resulting from use of the resources, errors in the resources contained on this site. Manufacturers’ documentation must be referenced prior to the use of any equipment.