Key Clinical Topics in Critical Care

Sara-Catrin Cook MBBCh FRCA Intensive Care and Anaesthetics Registrar, Severn Deanery, Britstol, UK Matt Thomas FRCA MRCP Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK Jerry Nolan FRCA FCEM Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK Michael Parr FRCP FRCA FANZCA FCICM Director of Intensive Care, Liverpool Hospital, New South Wales, Australia

1. Acute coronary syndrome



2. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) - diagnosis



3. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) - management



4. Abdominal compartment syndrome



5. Adrenal disease



6. Airway complications on Intensive Care Unit



7. Airway management in an emergency



8. Airway obstruction - upper and lower



9. Analgesia in critical care - advanced



10. Anaphylaxis



11. Antibiotics, antivirals and antifungals



12. Arterial blood gases (ABG) - physiology



13. Arterial blood gases (ABG) - analysis



14. Arterial cannulation



15. Asthma



16. Blood and blood products



17. Blood coagulopathies



18. Blood transfusion and complications



19. Brain stem death and organ donation



20. Burns



21. Calcium, magnesium and phosphate



22. Cancer patients and critical care



23. Cardiac arrhythmias



24. Cardiac failure - acute



25. Cardiac output measurement



26. Cardiac pacing



27. Cardiac surgery - postoperative care



28. Cardiac valve disease



29. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation



30. Care bundles



31. Central venous cannulation



32. Chest tube thoracostomy



33. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)



34. Coma



35. Consent



36. Critical illness polyneuromyopathy



37. Delirium



38. Diabetes mellitus



39. Diarrhoea



40. Drug overdose and poisons



41. Echocardiography for Critical Care



42. ECMO



43. Endocarditis



44. End-of-life care



45. Ethics



46. Fibreoptic bronchoscopy



47. Fluid replacement therapy



48. Guillain-Barre syndrome



49. Haematological disorders



50. HIV



51. Hypertension



52. Hyperthermia



53. Hypothermia



54. ICP monitoring



55. Infection acquired in hospital



56. Infection control



57. Inotropes and vasopressors



58. Liver failure - acute



59. Liver failure - chronic



60. Major haemorrhage



61. Meningitis and encephalitis



62. Meningococcal sepsis



63. Myasthenia gravis



64. Neurological diseases



65. Nutrition



66. Obstetric emergencies



67. Obstetric Haemorrhage



68. Oscillation and high frequency ventilation



69. Pancreatitis



70. Pandemic flu



71. Patient safety



72. Pituitary disorders



73. Pleural disease



74. Pneumonia - community acquired



75. Pneumonia - hospital acquired



76. Post-resuscitation care



77. Potassium



78. Pre-hospital care



79. Pulmonary function tests



80. Quality indicators



81. Quality of life after ICU



82. Radiology for Critical Care



83. Rapid response systems



84. Refractive hypoxia - management



85. Renal failure - acute



86. Renal failure - rescue therapies



87. Renal replacement therapy



88. Respiratory support - invasive



89. Respiratory support - non-invasive



90. Scoring systems



91. Sedation



92. Sepsis - management



93. Sepsis - pathophysiology



94. Shock



95. Sickle cell disease



96. SIRS



97. Skin and soft tissue infections



98. SOD/SDD



99. Sodium



100. Spinal injuries



101. Status epilepticus



102. Stress ulceration prophylaxis



103. Stroke



104. Subarachnoid haemorrhage



105. Tetanus



106. Thyroid Gland Disorders



107. Tracheostomy



108. Transfer of the critically ill



109. Transplant medicine



110. Trauma - anaesthesia and critical care



111. Trauma - other injuries



112. Trauma - primary survey



113. Trauma - secondary survey



114. Traumatic brain injury



115. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding



116. Vasculitides



117. Venous thromboembolism



118. Weaning from ventilation