SYSTEMS
- Cardiology
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Hematology & Oncology
- Infectious diseases
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Obstetrics
- Pulmonology
- Rheumatology
- Toxicology & Temperature
- Overview: Guide to supportive care in critical illness
- Medication reconciliation in the ICU
- About this book
General
- Approaches to problems
- Cardiac arrest
- 🔜 Chest pain
- Hypertensive emergency
- Preoperative risk stratification & optimization
- 🔜 Syncope
- Therapeutics & invasive hemodynamics
Arrhythmia
Coronary disease
Myocardial & pericardial disease
Shock & heart failure
- Specific forms of heart failure & shock:
- Interventions & devices
- Shock (undifferentiated)
Valvular & aortic disease
- Aortic dissection
- Endocarditis
- LV outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO)
- 🔜 Valvular heart disease
Adrenal crisis
Glucose & insulin
- Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
- Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar State (HHS)
- Glycemic control in the ICU
- Hypoglycemia
Thyroid
Abdominal compartment syndrome
Biliary
- Acalculous cholecystitis
- Community-acquired biliary sepsis (ascending cholangitis & calculus cholecystitis)
GI hemorrhage
Intestine
- Nausea & antiemetics
- C. difficile
- Motility disorders
Liver
- Acute Liver Failure (ALF)
- Acute on Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF)
- Alcoholic hepatitis
- Coagulopathy in liver failure
- Hepatic encephalopathy:
- Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS-AKI)
- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP)
Nutrition
Pancreatitis
Anemia & transfusion
- Anemia & hemoglobin transfusion targets
- Massive Transfusion Protocol (MTP)
- Sickle cell anemia – acute chest syndrome
Anticoagulation, therapeutic
Coagulopathy
- Coagulation studies (conventional & TEG)
- Coagulopathy in liver failure
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)
Malignancy
- Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL)
- CAR-T cell recipient
- Immune-related adverse events from checkpoint inhibitors
- Tumor lysis syndrome
Thrombocytopenia
- Thrombocytopenia
- Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome (CAPS)
- Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
- Thrombotic microangiopathies (including TTP and HUS)
General approach
Specific infections
- Biliary sepsis (ascending cholangitis & calculus cholecystitis)
- Candidiasis
- C. difficile
- Endocarditis
- Epiglottitis
- Influenza
- Line infection
- Meningitis & encephalitis
- Necrotizing fasciitis
- Pneumonia
- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
- Tickborne illnesses
- Toxic Shock Syndrome
- Urologic
Acid-base disorders
- Diagnosis: approach to pH analysis
- Metabolic acidosis
- Metabolic alkalosis
- Respiratory acidosis (hypercapnia)
- Respiratory alkalosis (hypocapnia)
Acute kidney injury
Electrolytes.
- Sodium
- Potassium
- Calcium
- Magnesium
- Phosphorous
Fluids & diuretics
General
- Approaches to problems:
- Diagnostics
- Therapeutics
Anoxic brain injury
Effects on other organ systems
Infectious diseases
- Approach to CNS infection
- Sites of infection
- Specific pathogens
Inflammatory
Movement disorders
- Movement disorders
- Baclofen withdrawal & toxicity
- Catatonia
- Serotonin Syndrome
- Malignant hyperthermia
- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
Neuromuscular weakness
- Neuromuscular disorders & generalized weakness
- Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)
- Myasthenic crisis
- Rhabdomyolysis
Neurosurgery
Oncological
Seizures
- Convulsive status epilepticus
- EEG & Ictal-Interictal Continuum (IIC)
- Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE)
Spinal Cord
Toxic / metabolic
- Alcohol withdrawal
- Wernicke encephalopathy
- (More on toxicology 👇 below)
Traumatic
Vascular
- Occlusion
- Hemorrhage
- Vascular tone abnormality
Appendix
- Cardiopulmonary disease in pregnancy
- Neurological emergencies in pregnancy
- Preeclampsia & HELLP syndrome
- Thrombotic microangiopathy in pregnancy
General 🫁
- Approaches to common problems
- Diagnostics
- Radiology
- Therapeutics
Airway disorders 🫁
Exposures
- Aspiration
- Drug-induced lung disease
- EVALI (E-cigarette or vaping associated lung injury)
- Fat emboli syndrome
- Pneumoconiosis
Infectious 🫁
- Clinical infectious syndromes
- Bacteria
- Mycobacteria
- Fungi
- Pneumocystis
- Cryptococcus
- Endemic mycoses
- Mold
- Candida
- Viral
Interstitial lung diseases 🫁
- Acute exacerbation of ILD
- Amyloidosis
- CT-ILD (connective tissue-related ILD)
- DAD (diffuse alveolar damage)
- DIP (desquamative interstitial pneumonitis)
- Eosinophilic lung disease
- GLILD (granulomatous & lymphocytic ILD)
- HP (hypersensitivity pneumonitis)
- IgG4-related lung disease
- IPF (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis)
- LIP (lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia)
- Lipoid pneumonia
- NSIP (nonspecific interstitial pneumonia)
- OP (organizing pneumonia)
- PAP (pulmonary alveolar proteinosis)
- PAM (pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis)
- PLCH (pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis)
- PPFE (pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis)
- RBILD (respiratory bronchiolitis ILD)
- Sarcoidosis
Malignant 🫁
Neuromuscular weakness 🫁
Pleural 🫁
Vascular 🫁
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary vasculitis & Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage
- Pulmonary AVMs & other vascular abnormalities
- Sickle cell acute chest syndrome
- Superior vena cava syndrome (SVCs)
Other 🫁
- Pulmonary manifestations of systemic diseases
- Cardiopulmonary disease in pregnancy
- Sleep-disordered breathing
- Calcification & metastatic bone formation
Allergy
Inflammatory
- Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome (CAPS)
- Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
- Pulmonary vasculitis
Basic toxicology
- Approach to the poisoned patient
- Dysthermias:
Common intoxications & withdrawals
- Acetaminophen
- Alcohol et al.
- Anticholinergics
- Baclofen withdrawal & toxicity
- Beta-blockers
- Bupropion
- Calcium channel blockers
- Carbon monoxide
- Digoxin
- Lithium
- Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity (LAST)
- Malignant hyperthermia
- Metformin-associated lactic acidosis (MALA)
- Methemoglobinemia
- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS)
- Opioid
- Salicylate
- Serotonin Syndrome
- Sodium channel blockers
- Sympathomimetics
- Tricyclic antidepressants
- Valproic Acid
