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

Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni MD (Anaesthesiology) FISCCM PGDHHM FICCM
Shilpushp Jagannath Bhosale DM (Critical Care Medicine) Fellowship Paediatric Critical Care Medicine (University of Toronto)