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 library of critical care educational resources for medical educators and learners with a focus on respiratory care. The library includes 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.
Our Vision
A comprehensive, open access library of critical care educational resources for educators and learners, supported by a global community of technical experts.
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
Lekshmi Santhosh MD, MA
Assistant Professor, Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco
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
Contributors
Arthur Kwizera MBChB, M. Med
Senior Lecturer, Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Makerere University
Rich Branson MS, RRT
Professor, Respiratory Care, University of Cincinatti
Robert Neighbour
Biomedical Engineering
Teresa Kortz, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, UCSF
Shevin Jacob, MD, MPH
Senior Clinical Lecturer in Sepsis Research, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Beth Riviello, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Attending Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dr. Carolina Haylock-Loor
Director of Programs, World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists
Rich Kallet, RRT
Cornel Sendagire, MBChB, M. Med
Sky Vanderburg, MD, MPH
Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellow, UCSF
Faye Evans, MD
Chair, Education Committee, World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists
Maytinee Lilaonitkul, MBBS
Editor, Anesthesia Tutorial of the Week
Rebecca Silvers, NP
Pediatric Critical Care Nurse Practitioner, UCSF
Elise Delagnes, MD, MA Ed
UCSF Anesthesia
Paul Sonenthal, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sam Percy, MD
University of California San Francisco HEAL Initiative Fellow
Ethan Bornstein, MD
Internal Medicine Physician, Indian Health Service, Navajo Nation - Chinle Comprehensive Health
Bunmi Okunlola, MD
Fellow, UCSF Anesthesia Division of Global Health Equity
Mohamed Seedahmed, MD, MPH
Pulmonary & CCM Fellow, UCSF
William McKleroy, MD
Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UCSF
Vaibhav Upadhyay, MD, PhD
Fellow, UCSF
Gayatri Singla
Contributor and Content Editor
Mohamed Seedahmed, MD, MPH, FACP
Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellow, UCSF
Bhakti Hansoti, MBCHB, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
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
Farrah Kashfipour, MSN MS RN CCRN
ICU Nurse, Stanford Health Care
Jeffrey Pearson, PharmD
Infectious Diseases Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Operations
Leah Murphy
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.