Critical Care Update 2023

SECTION 1: Sepsis Diagnosis and Management

1. Precision Medicine in Septic Shock

2. Optimal Blood Pressure Target in Patients with Septic Shock

3. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines in 2022: What is New and what has Changed?

4. Individualizing Hemodynamics in Septic Shock

5. Adjunctive Therapies in Sepsis: Current Status

6. Refractory Septic Shock: What are the Options

7. Steroids in Sepsis and Clinical Outcomes

8. Candida auris: Detection, Prevention, and Management

9. Empirical Antifungal Treatment: Is It Justified?

10. Role of Steroids in Severe Community acquired Pneumonia

11. Procalcitonin: Can It Differentiate Bacterial versus Fungal Infection



SECTION 2: Antimicrobial Therapy in ICU

12. Optimizing Antimicrobial Dosing in the Intensive Care Unit

13. Antibiotic within 1 hour: Should this be Applied to all Patients with Sepsis?

14. Dark Side of Antibiotics

15. Optimal Duration of Antibiotic Therapy

16. Cefiderocol: Is this the Answer to Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative Infection?



SECTION 3: Respiratory Critical Care

17. Management of Pneumonia in Intensive Care

18. Reverse Triggering during Controlled Ventilation: A Frequent Dysynchrony with Various Consequences

19. Use of Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction in Pneumonia

20. Management of Complicated Pleural Effusion

21. Hepatic Hydrothorax

22. Submassive Pulmonary Embolism

23. Role of Magnesium in Respiratory Failure

24. ARDS in Children: How is it Different?

25. Safe Tracheal Intubation in Intensive Care Unit

26. Lateral Positioning: Does it Work?

27. Dyspnea in Patients on Invasive Ventilation: Clinical Impact

28. Complications of Noninvasive Ventilation Failure



SECTION 4: Mechanical Ventilation

29. Setting Optimum PEEP

30. Open Lung or Keep Lung Closed: Which Strategy to Choose?

31. Driving Pressure or Mechanical Power: Which One to Monitor?

32. Measuring Respiratory Drive and Muscle Effort

33. Oxygenation Targets in Mechanically Ventilated Critically-ill Patients

34. Ventilatory Ratio: A New Monitoring Tool

35. Helmet NIV: Is it a Game Changer?

36. Electrical Impedance Tomography: Current Application

37. Automatic Tube Compensation: Does it have a Role?

38. High-frequency Oscillatory Ventilation in Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

39. Noninvasive Ventilation in Pediatrics: Current Status



SECTION 5: Cardiovascular Critical Care

40. Crystalloid Resuscitation: Finding the Balance

41. Artificial Intelligence Tools to Optimize Hemodynamics in the ICU

42. Aggressive or Restrictive Fluid Resuscitation

43. Predicting Hypotension: Is It Useful?

44. Vasopressors: How Early?

45. Myocardial Injury after Noncardiac Surgery

46. Use of Vasopressin during Cardiac Arrest



SECTION 6: Echocardiography and Ultrasound

47. Advances in Intensive Care Unit Echocardiography

48. Transesophageal Echocardiography: Is It Preferable in the Intensive Care Unit?

49. ECHO Features of Pulmonary Hypertension and Increased Left Atrial Pressures

50. Role of Echocardiography in Shock State

51. Use of Echocardiography in Assessing Fluid Responsiveness

52. Venous Excess Ultrasound Score (VExUS)



SECTION 7: Nephrology, Fluids, Acid-Base Balance and Electrolytes Balance

53. Fluid Management in Acute Kidney Injury

54. Sepsis-associated Acute Kidney Injury: Common but Poorly Understood

55. Delayed versus Very Delayed Renal Replacement Therapy

56. Plasma Exchange in Intensive Care Unit: Current Status

57. Acute Kidney Injury Care Bundle

58. Biomarker-driven Therapy in AKI

59. How to Approach Dyselectrolytemias in a Patient on CRRT?



SECTION 8: Neurocritical Care

60. Prognostication in Neurocritical Care

61. Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus

62. Early Detection of Intensive Care Unit-acquired Weakness

63. Personalized Hemodynamic Management in Neurocritical Care

64. Extracranial Complications of Brain Injury

65. Ketamine: Current Status in ICU

66. Inhalational Sedation in Intensive Care Unit

67. Hypoactive Delirium: Detection and Management

68. Status Epilepticus: Anticonvulsants of Choice



SECTION 9: Gastrointestinal, Liver and Nutrition

69. The Microbiome

70. Personalized Glucose Control

71. Hypoxic Liver Injury and Management

72. Enteral Nutrition in Hemodynamically Unstable Patients

73. Problems of Overfeeding

74. Protein or Calories—Which is More Important?



SECTION 10: Trauma

75. Role of Tranexamic Acid in Trauma: When and where?

76. REBOA in Trauma

77. Transfusion Triggers in Trauma Shock

78. Rhabdomyolysis



SECTION 11: Toxicology

79. Paraquat Poisoning: Current Status

80. Methemoglobinemia



SECTION 12: Oncology and Hematology

81. Intravascular Hemolysis

82. Cytokine Storm and Hemophagocytic Syndromes

83. Pulmonary and Neurological Complications and their Management in Immune Cancer Therapy

84. Superior Vena Cava Syndrome: Approach to Management

85. Hyperviscosity Syndromes



SECTION 13: Medicolegal Issues and End-of-life Care

86. Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit: Is It an Elusive or Essential Goal?

87. Care of Elderly in Intensive Care Unit: Special Issues that Need to be Addressed

88. Feeding and Antibiotic Use in End-of-life Care: Is It Justified?

89. Communication in the ICU

90. Breaking Bad News to Children



SECTION 14: Clinical Research Methodology

91. Understanding Bayesian Analysis

92. Platform and Adaptive Trials

93. Data Science Implementation in Intensive Care Unit



SECTION 15: Obstetric Critical Care

94. Complicated Tropical Fever

95. HELLP Syndrome



SECTION 16: ICU Organization/Quality of Care

Section Editors: BK Rao, Palepu B Gopal

96. Smart ICU: The Era of Safety and Precision in ICU

97. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Patients and Family Members of ICU Patients

98. Cost Containment in the ICU

99. Simulation based Training in ICU

100. ICU Quality Indicators in Resource-limited Setting



SECTION 17: Extracorporeal Life Support

101. Extracorporeal Life Support: Does it Improve Outcome in Septic Shock?

102. Certifying Brain Death on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

103. How to Wean off ECMO

104. Thrombocytopenia in ECMO Patient: Troubleshooting



SECTION 18: Miscellaneous

105. Post ICU Care in India: An Unmet Need

106. Preventing Post-transplant Respiratory Failure

107. Human Mesenchymal Cell Therapy in Critically Ill: An Update

108. Withdrawal Syndromes in Intensive Care Unit: Recognition and Management

109. Zentensivism: A Holistic Approach to the Art of Caring

110. Gender Balance in the Intensive Care Unit: Where are We Today?