Evidence-Based Critical Care

Dr. Robert C. Hyzy is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Hyzy is a graduate of Kenyon College and received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine in New York City. Dr. Hyzy completed his residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan. He is Director of the Critical Care Medicine Unit at the University of Michigan Hospital and Co-Chair of the University of Michigan Hospital Critical Care Committee. Dr. Hyzy’s research interests are in the area of critical care medicine, including ARDS, ventilator associated pneumonia, and quality improvement. He has been an investigator on numerous NIH funded trials and currently is the Program Director of the NHLBI sponsored Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury (PETAL) Network Clinical Center at Michigan Medicine. He is a member of the American Thoracic Society Quality Improvement and Finance Committees and Chairs the Michigan Health and Hospitals Association Keystone Center for Patient Safety Board of Directors. Dr. Hyzy has spoken nationally and internationally on several topics related to Critical Care Medicine. He has published multiple articles and chapters in medical journals and textbooks and has served as a reviewer for several major medical journals including Critical Care Medicine, Chest, Annals of Internal Medicine and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. His editorial work includes a volume of the Clinics in Critical Care Medicine, entitled, “Enhancing the Quality of Care in the ICU, ” published in 2013. In addition, Dr. Hyzy contributes fourteen topics on mechanical ventilation to the web based medical resource UpToDate.Dr. Jakob McSparron is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan.  He is the Associate Director of the Critical Care Medicine Unit and Associate Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship.  Dr. McSparron  graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.  He earned his medical degree at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and completed residency in Internal Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital – Cornell.  He completed fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Harvard Combined Training Program. Dr. McSparron has extensive training in medical education and is a graduate of The Academy at Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Medical Education Research and The Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. McSparron was an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2013 through 2017, where he served as Associate Program Director for the Beth Israel Deaconess Internal Medicine Residency and the Harvard Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship.  Dr. McSparron's clinical and research interests include ARDS and long term outcomes of critical illness.  He is the Clinical Director of the University of Michigan Post ICU Longitudinal Survivor Experience Clinic (UM-PULSE). He serves as Vice-Chair of the American Thoracic Society Education Committee, and he previously served as Chair of Critical Care Core Curriculum at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.  Dr. McSparron has spoken nationally on critical care medicine and medical education topics, and he has published numerous articles and chapters related to pulmonary disease and critical care medicine.  He contributes several chapters to UpToDate, and he has served as a reviewer for several major medical journals.

• Sympathomimetic  overdose (designer drugs).- Cardiac Arrest Management.- Beta blocker overdose.- Post- Cardiac Arrest Management.- Undifferentiated Shock.- Hypovolemic Shock and Massive Transfusion.- Acute Respiratory Failure.- Encephalitis.- Hyperkalemia NIV Implementation and Intubation.- Subarachnoid Hemorrhages.- Diagnosis and Management of Tricyclic Antidepressant Ingestion.- Hypernatremia.-  Management of Calcium Channel Blocker Poisoning.- ICU Care Delivery and Medical Ethics.- Diagnosis and Management of Ethylene Glycol Ingestion.- Accidental Hypothermia.- Management of Cardiogenic Shock.- Management of Acute Heart Failure.- Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome.- Complications of Myocardial Infarction.- Management of Cardiac Tamponade.- Hypertensive Crises.- Atrial Fibrillation and Other Supraventricular Tachycardias.- Ventricular Arrhythmias.- Management of Acute Aortic Syndromes.- Management of Endocarditis.- Community Acquired Pneumonia.- Management of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- Acute Exacerbation of COPD:  Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation.- Management of Status Asthmaticus.- Immunocompromised Pneumonia.- Venous Thromboembolism in the Intensive Care Unit.- Massive Hemoptysis.- Sedation and Delirium.- Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation.- Complications of trach.-  Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia and Other Complications.- Respiratory Failure in a Patient with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.- Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation.- The Post-Intensive Care Syndrome.- Management of Decompensated Right Ventricular Failure in the Intensive Care Unit.- Multi-disciplinary care/communication in the ICU.- Palliative care in ICU.- Family involvement in ICU.- Diffuse AlveolarHemorrhage.- Acute Stroke Emergency Management.- Bacterial Meningitis in the ICU.- Management of Intracerebral Hemorrhage.- Status Epilepticus.- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome.- Traumatic Brain Injury.- Management of Anoxic Brain Injury.- Traditional and Novel Tools for Diagnosis of Acute Kidney Injury.- Management of Acute Kidney Injury.- Rhabdomyolysis.- Hyponatremia.- Management of Severe Hyponatremia and SIADH.- Diabetic Ketoacidosis.- Thyroid Storm.- Adrenal Insufficiency.- Management of Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Syndrome.- Management of Myxedema Coma.- Urosepsis.- Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock.- Invasive Aspergillus.- Management of Strongyloides Hyperinfection Syndrome.- Treatment of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever in a Well-Resourced Environment.- Management of Severe Malaria.- Dengue.- Chikungunya.- Leptospirosis.- Management of Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage.- Variceal Hemorrhage.- Acute Pancreatitis.- Management of Acute Liver Failure.- Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Diagnosis and Management of Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI).- Principles of Nutrition in the Critically Ill Patient.- Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis.- ICU Management of the Patient with Alcoholic Liver Disease.- Diagnosis and Management of Thrombotic.- Thrombocytopenic Purpura.- Acute Leukemia Presentation with DIC.- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation.- Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis.- ICU Complications of Hematopoietic Stem Cell.- Transplantation Including Graft vs. Host Disease.- Tumor Lysis Syndrome.- Management of Hyperviscosity Syndromes.- Thoracic Trauma.- Blunt Abdominal Trauma.- Oncologic emergencies.- Abdominal Sepsis and Complicated Intraabdominal Infection.- Intestinal Obstruction: Small and Large Bowel.- Management of Acute Compartment Syndrome.- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) and Extracorporeal CO2 Removal (ECCO2R).- Coagulopathy Management of Acute Thermal Injury.- Acute Arterial Ischemia.- Management of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection.- Cytokine release syndrome.-  Biliary Infections.- Peripartum Cardiomyopathy.- Obstetric haemorrhage.- Management of Amniotic Fluid Embolism.- Respiratory Diseases of Pregnancy.- Preeclampsia, Eclampsia and HELLP Syndrome.- Management of Severe Skin Eruptions.- Management of Alcohol Withdrawal Syndromes.- End of Life Care in the ICU.- Neuromuscular Disease.