Critical care medicine: principles of diagnosis and management in the adult

Section 1: Critical care procedures, monitoring, and pharmacology -- Cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Airway management in the critically ill patient -- Assessment of cardiac filling and blood flow -- Arterial, central venous, and pulmonary artery catheters -- Cardiac pacing -- Pericardial tamponade: clinical presentation, diagnosis, and catheter-based therapies -- Intraaortic balloon counterpulsation & percutaneous ventricular assist devices -- Echocardiography -- General principles of mechanical ventilation -- Ventilatory management of obstructive airway disease -- Mechanical ventilation of acute respiratory distress syndrome -- Bronchoscopy and lung biopsy in the critically ill -- Noninvasive respiratory monitoring -- Tracheostomy -- Chest tube thoracostomy -- Intracranial monitoring -- Gastrointestinal endoscopy -- Bedside ultrasound in the critically ill patient -- Continuous renal replacement therapy -- Use of sedatives, analgesics, and neuromuscular blockers -- Principles of drug dosing in critically ill -- Section 2: Critical care cardiovascular disease -- Shock: classification, pathophysiology and approach to management -- Cardiogenic shock -- Severe sepsis and septic shock -- Cardiac tamponade -- Traumatic shock: nonsurgical management -- Severe heart failure -- Anaphylaxis and anaphylactic shock -- Acute coronary syndromes and acute myocardial infarction -- Valvular heart disease -- Cardiac arrhythmias -- Hypertensive crises -- Acute aortic dissection -- General principles of postoperative ICU care -- Postoperative management of the cardiac surgery patient -- Section 3: Critical care pulmonary disease -- Acute respiratory failure -- Life-threatening asthma -- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- Hypoventilation and respiratory muscle dysfunction -- Pneumonia: considerations for the critically ill patient -- Weaning from mechanical ventilation -- Pulmonary embolism -- Pulmonary hypertension -- Massive hemoptysis -- Pneumothorax and barotrauma -- Toxic gas, fume, and smoke inhalation;Section 4: Critical care infectious disease -- Nosocomial infection in the intensive care unit -- Antimicrobial therapy -- Antifungal and antiviral therapy -- Critically ill immunosuppressed host -- Specific infections with critical care implications -- Section 5: Renal disease and metabolic disorders in the critically ill -- Acute kidney injury -- Chronic renal failure -- Acid-base, electrolyte, and metabolic abnormalities -- Acute diabetic emergencies, glycemic control, and hypoglycemia -- Adrenal insufficiency in the critically ill patient -- Thyroid disorders -- Section 6: Neurologic disease in the critically ill -- Coma -- Neurologic criteria for death in adults -- Stroke -- Seizures in the critically ill -- Head injury -- Section 7: Physical and toxic injury in the critically ill -- Critical care management of the severely burned patient -- Poisonings -- Hypothermia, hyperthermia, and rhabdomyolysis -- Section 8: Administrative, ethical, and psychological issues in the care of the critically ill -- Performance improvement in critical care -- Ethical considerations in managing critically ill patients -- Administration and education in the intensive care unit -- Section 9: Other critical care disorders and issues in the critically ill -- Diagnosis and management of liver failure in the adult -- Gastrointestinal bleeding -- Acute pancreatitis -- Hemorrhagic and thrombotic disorders -- Use of blood components in the intensive care unit -- Intensive care of the cancer patient -- Critical care medicine in pregnancy -- Nutrition support."