Full Description
Critical Care: A Problem-Based Learning Approach provides a comprehensive review of the dynamic and ever-changing field of critical care. Its problem-based format incorporates a vast pool of practical, ABA board-exam-style multiple-choice questions for self-assessment, and is an ideal resource for exam preparation as well as ongoing clinical education among trainees and clinicians. Each of its 35 case-based chapters is accompanied by questions and answers, accessible online in a full practice exam. The cases presented are unique, as each chapter begins with a case description, usually a compilation of several actual cases; it then branches out through case-based questions, to increasingly complex situations. This structure is designed to create an authentic experience that mirrors that of working through the nuances of a complicated clinical scenario. The discussion sections that follow offer a comprehensive approach to the chapter's subject matter, thus creating a modern, complete, and up-to-date medical review of that topic.
Contents
1 Asthma
2 Airway obstruction, bleeding, and pain control after tonsillectomy
3 The Failing Fontan
4 ARDS and Ventilator Management
5 Pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary hemorrhage
6 Ventilator and Chest Tube Management for Pneumothorax in a patient with Bullous Emphysema
7 Ruptured Esophageal Varices and Complications of Massive Blood Transfusion
8 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
9 Motor vehicle accident with skull fracture and c-spine compromise
10 NMDA Encephalitis
11 Stroke treated with Mechanical Thrombectomy
12 Elevated ICP with a sella turcica tumor with diplopia and panhypopituitarism
13 Post-operative Myocardial Ischemia Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock
14 In-Hospital Acute Coronary Syndrome
15 Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy with Systolic Anterior Motion of the Mitral Valve
16 Refractory VT/VF to ECLS/ECMO: With discussion of VV vs VA and cannulation strategies
17 Anaphylaxis Presenting from Home
18 Severe Thermal Burn Injury, Greater Than 80% Total Body Surface Area
19 Motor vehicle accident and abdominal pain
20 Pre-Eclampsia and HELLP syndrome in the parturient
21 Postpartum Hemorrhage
22 Amniotic Fluid Embolism
23 Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) with Hypercarpnia and Hypoxia after Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass Surgery
24 Mesenteric Ischemia with Dead Bowel after Major Abdominal Surgery
25 Complications of bariatric surgery including rhabdomyolysis with acidosis and AKI
26 Sepsis: Laparoscopic Bowel Surgery
27 Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
28 Cardiac Tamponade
29 Atrial Fibrillation with Rapid Ventricular Response post Mitral Valve Repair
30 Ventricular Fibrillation / Ventricular Tachycardia After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
31 LVAD Complicated by RV Failure
32 Left Ventricular Assist Device with intracranial hemorrhage
33 Vasoplegia Syndrome Management Post Cardiac Surgery
34 Diagnosis of Brain Death and Management of the Brain Dead Patient
35 Ethics in the ICU
