Decision Making in Critical Care Medicine

SECTION 1: Trauma and Prehospital Care

1. Primary and Secondary Survey in Trauma Patients

2. Assessment and Management of Cervical Spine Injury

3. Evaluation and Management of a Patient with Penetrating Thoracic Trauma

4. Blunt Abdominal Trauma

5. Management of a Patient with Penetrating Abdominal Trauma

6. Management of Patient with Traumatic Long Bone Fractures

7. Massive Transfusion in Trauma Patients

8. Damage Control Resuscitation



SECTION 2: Airway

9. High-flow Nasal Oxygen Therapy in Mild-to-Moderate Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure

10. NIV for Mild-to-Moderate AHRF

11. Airway Management in the Critically Ill Patient



SECTION 3: Poisoning and Toxic Exposure

12. General Approach to Management of a Patient with Poisoning

13. Management of Acute Alcohol Intoxication (Ethanol, Methanol, Isopropanol, Ethylene Glycol)

14. Organophosphorus Poisoning

15. Heavy Metal Poisoning in the ICU

16. Iron Toxicity

17. Lithium Toxicity

18. Antimony Poisoning

19. Thallium Toxicity

20. Corrosive Poisoning

21. Hydrocarbon Poisoning

22. Acetaminophen Toxicity

23. Tricyclic Antidepressants Toxicity

24. Cocaine Toxicity

25. Paraquat Poisoning

26. Phosphorus Poisoning

27. Beta-Blocker Toxicity

28. Barbiturate Toxicity

29. Salicylate Toxicity

30. Phenylbutazone Poisoning

31. Antiarrhythmic Drug Toxicity

32. Theophylline Toxicity

33. Valproate Overdose

34. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

35. Cyanide Poisoning

36. Mustard Gas Inhalation

37. Digoxin Toxicity

38. Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Overdose

39. Mushroom Poisoning



SECTION 4: Bites, Stings, and Envenomations

40. Management of Patients with Snake Bite

41. Management of Patients with Scorpion Sting

42. Management of Patients with Tick-borne Paralysis



SECTION 5: Immune System

43. Anaphylactic and Anaphylactoid Reactions



SECTION 6: Burns, Electrical Injuries and Heat Related Injuries

44. Management of a Patient with Extensive Burns

45. Management of a Patient with Massive Electrical Injury

46. Management of a Patient with Severe Hypothermia

47. Management of Heatstroke



SECTION 7: Near Drowning and Hanging

48. Management of a Drowning Victim

49. Management of a Patient with Strangulation or Near-Hanging



SECTION 8: Respiratory System

50. Bronchial Asthma

51. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

52. Restrictive Lung Diseases

53. Ventilatory Management of a Patient with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

54. Ventilatory Management of Patient with Bronchopleural Fistula

55. Severe Community-acquired Pneumonia

56. Management of a Patient with Ventilator-associated Pneumonia

57. Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage

58. Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis

59. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

60. High-frequency Oscillatory Ventilation

61. Prone Ventilation

62. Management of a Patient with Massive Hemoptysis

63. Superior Vena Cava Syndrome

64. Acute Pulmonary Embolism

65. Fat Embolism Syndrome

66. Blood Transfusion Reaction



SECTION 9: Cardiovascular System

67. Hypertensive Urgencies and Emergencies

68. ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

69. Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction

70. Aortic Dissection

71. Supraventricular Tachycardia

72. Ventricular Arrhythmias

73. Heart Blocks

74. Acute Myocarditis

75. Infective Endocarditis

76. Management of Valvular Heart Disease



SECTION 10: Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Disorders

77. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

78. Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding

79. Hepatic Encephalopathy

80. Severe Acute Pancreatitis

81. Calculous and Acalculous Cholecystitis

82. Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis

83. Fulminant Hepatic Failure

84. Acute Intestinal Obstruction/Perforation

85. Toxic Megacolon

86. Paralytic Ileus

87. Hepatopulmonary Syndrome

88. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome

89. Acute Mesenteric Ischemia

90. Nonocclusive Mesenteric Ischemia



SECTION 11: Renal Disorders and Electrolyte Derangements

91. Acute Kidney Injury

92. Hypokalemia

93. Hyperkalemia

94. Hyponatremia

95. Hypernatremia

96. Hypercalcemia

97. Hyperphosphatemia

98. Metabolic Alkalosis



SECTION 12: Endocrine Disorders

99. Diabetic Ketoacidosis

100. Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar State

101. Adrenal Insufficiency

102. Thyroid Storm

103. Myxedema Coma

104. Diabetes Insipidus



SECTION 13: Central Nervous System Disorders

105. Acute Ischemic Stroke

106. Acute Hemorrhagic Stroke

107. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

108. Management of Patient with Traumatic Brain Injury with Raised ICP

109. Status Epilepticus

110. Spinal Cord Compression

111. Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) in Children

112. Guillain–Barre Syndrome

113. Myasthenia Gravis



SECTION 14: Rheumatology and Autoimmune Disorders

114. Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis

115. Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome

116. Acute Interstitial Pneumonia



SECTION 15: Obstetric Emergencies

117. Eclampsia

118. HELLP Syndrome

119. Antepartum Hemorrhage

120. Postpartum Hemorrhage

121. Amniotic Fluid Embolism



SECTION 16: Infectious Diseases

122. Approach to Fever in ICU

123. Infections in the Immunocompromised Host

124. Meningitis

125. Encephalitis

126. Catheter-related Bloodstream Infections

127. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus Infections

128. Clostridioides Difficile Diarrhea

129. Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

130. Intra-abdominal Sepsis

131. Sepsis in Asplenic Patients



SECTION 17: Tropical Illness

132. Dengue Shock Syndrome

133. Severe Malaria

134. Leptospirosis

135. Scrub Typhus



SECTION 18: Miscellaneous

136. Management of Brain-dead Organ Donor

137. Macrophage Activation Syndrome

138. Thrombotic Microangiopathy

139. Tumor Lysis Syndrome