Pediatric Critical Care Study Guide

Steven E. Lucking is Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at the Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital in Hershey, PA. He has special interests in brain injury, shock, bronchoscopy, outcomes evaluation and research. Frank A. Maffei is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Temple University School of Medicine and Medical Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Janet Weis Children's Hospital at Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA.  His special interests include life-threatening asthma, meningitis, traumatic brain injury and the use of bedside ultrasound in the critically ill infant and child. Robert F. Tamburro is Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at the Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital  in Hershey, PA.  He has special interests in oncologic critical care, clinical research and pediatric palliative care. He is also certified in Pediatric Palliative Care. Neal J. Thomas is  Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health Sciences in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at the Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital in Hershey, PA. He has special interest in  acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis/shock, type IV phosphodiesterase inhibition, closed head injury and pediatric critical care medicine research.

1.Fundamentals of Gas Exchange and the Assessment of Oxygenation and Ventilation.- 2.Oxygen Delivery and Oxygen Consumption in Pediatric Critical Care.- 3.Hemodynamics.- 4.Regional Circulations.- 5.Assessment of Cardiovascular Function
6.Overview, Structure and Function of the Nephron.- 7.Physiology of skeletal muscle and the neuromuscular junction.- 8.Assessment of Neurologic Function.- 9.Endothelial Interactions and Coagulation.- 10.The Inflammatory Response.- 11.Genetic Predisposition to Critical Illness in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.- 12.Conventional Mechanical Ventilation.- 13.Non-Conventional Mechanical Ventilation.- 14.Mechanical and Electrical Myocardial Support.- 15.Renal Replacement Therapies and other Extracorporeal Therapies.- 16.Pharmacology.- 17.Cardiovascular Drug Therapy.- 18.Sedation and Analgesia.- 19.Neuromuscular Blockade.- 20.Use of Blood Products.- 21.Nutrition in Critical Illness.- 22.Upper Airway Obstruction.- 23.Severe Asthma.