Welcome to the Arizona Critical Care Hub!
This website serves to provide Housestaff an online ICU Handbook. Every topic in Critical Care is met with a quick run-down of the disease process, but then will take you the literature behind the topic at hand. We highly encourage trainees to ensure that they familiarize themselves with the Guidelines and salient literature behind these complex processes. This website is dynamic in that when new Guidelines come out, they are updated on the site. There is also section geared for Pulmonary/Critical Fellows with ACGME Requirements, Procedure Training Videos from ATS, Fleischner Society Thoracic Imaging Review and Lung Pathology for the Boards.
Dr. Karin Halvorson earned her medical degree from the University of Hawaii. She completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Subsequently she attended Brown University for her Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship. While at Brown she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and earned the 2014 Fellow Teaching Award. She subsequently took an Academic Appointment at Tulane University where she received the John Deming Department of Medicine Teaching Award in the 2019-2020 Academic Year. She has been the ICU Director in various hospitals for Medical, Surgical and Neurological Critical Care. She currently is the Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the Southern Arizona Veteran Health Care System and is an Associated Professor at the University of Arizona. She continues to work part-time in the ER setting. She is invested in medical education and has created this website with the help of Dr. Osama Mukhtar. Dr. Halvorson is the main author of this website but she thanks previous contributors including: Dr. Nathan Nielsen, Dr. Catherine Wentowski, Dr. Aimee Aysenne, Dr. Kevin Cartwright, Dr. Jodi Layton, Dr. Seema Qayum, Dr. Britta Kumley, Dr. Diane Davis, Dr. Lekha Deere and Dr. Kshama Bhyravabhotla.
