ICU Quality Insights: Critical Care Research and Tools | Serdar Efe

ICU Quality Insights is the English entry point to the Yoğun Bakım Kalite Platformu, created by Serdar Efe, MD, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Intensive Care at Bursa Uludağ University, Türkiye.

The platform connects critical care education, respiratory physiology, literature appraisal and digital tools. This page helps international readers find the site's research and resources; Turkish-language resources are identified below.

English learning guides

• Blood Gas Interpretation in the ICU: A Structured Reading Checklist
• Anion Gap and Albumin: Why a Normal Gap Can Be Misleading
• Respiratory Pyramid Interface: Understanding the RPI Research and Its Limits

Start here

• Blood gas and acid–base analysis tool: features and beta access — a browser-based educational and calculation tool currently in closed testing.
• Respiratory Pyramid Interface (RPI): research and full text — a conceptual model for visualizing lung mechanics during mechanical ventilation, with a Turkish introduction and English research text.
• Improving quality in surgical intensive care: research and full text — intensivist presence and the semiopen unit model, with a Turkish introduction and English research text.
• Critical care literature reviews (Turkish) — study summaries and discussion of their bedside relevance.
• ICU Daily Gazette (Turkish) — recent educational highlights.

Research with persistent source links

Respiratory Pyramid Interface. Efe S. Respiratory pyramid interface (RPI): a conceptual three-dimensional pyramid model for visualization of lung mechanics during mechanical ventilation. Frontiers in Physiology. 2026;17:1846417. Publisher version and DOI. The article describes a conceptual model; publication does not by itself establish clinical validation of a software implementation.

Surgical ICU quality. Efe S, Yiğit Avcı Ş, Kaya E, Yılmaz E. Improving Quality in Surgical Intensive Care: The Critical Impact of Intensivist Presence and the Semiopen Unit Model. International Journal of Clinical Practice. 2025;2025:8731737. Publisher version and DOI. Readers should distinguish observational findings from causal conclusions.

About the author

Serdar Efe works at the intersection of critical care medicine, respiratory physiology and clinical software. His projects include the Respiratory Pyramid Interface, the Efe-ICU DIC framework and the Kan Gazı: Asit-Baz blood gas analysis tool.

Google Scholar publications · Professional profile · Contact

Using and citing these resources

For research findings, cite the original article and DOI. For an explanation or tool description unique to this blog, cite the named author, page title and permanent page URL, and include your access date. Research evidence, author commentary and software descriptions should be read as distinct types of information.

Clinical posts and tools support education and calculation. They do not replace patient-specific assessment, current guidelines or professional judgment. Access conditions for beta tools are stated on their announcement pages.

Updated: 9 October 2026. English adaptation prepared with AI assistance from the platform's published author and project information.

Türkçe ana sayfa