Category CCC

The LITFL Critical Care Compendium is a comprehensive collection of pages concisely covering the core topics and controversies of critical care.

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Central Diabetes Insipidus

Diabetes insipidus (DI) is a condition caused by loss of the effect of antidiuretic hormone on the collecting ducts of the kidneys, resulting in loss of free water.

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Temperature and Traumatic Brain Injury

Temperature and TBI. Induced hypothermia has been used for years to reduced cerebral metabolic rate; manipulation of temperature has been shown to effect certain types of brain injury (therapeutic hypothermia in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest).

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Lund Concept for Traumatic Brain injury

A 'volume-targeted' approach to the management of TBI developed by a Swedish group (not ABBA), based on physiological volume regulation of the intracranial compartments. The Lund concept contradicts the prevailing strategem of titrating CPP to match ICP in TBI

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Moderate Head Injury

DEFINITION PROGNOSTIC DETERMINANTS FACTORS WARRANTING ADMISSION TO ICU Patient factors Environmental factors References and Links

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Diabetes Insipidus following TBI

Diabetes insipidus (DI) results from decreased secretion and action of anti-diuretic hormone (ADH). ADH is produced in the hypothalamus and transported to the posterior pituitary gland

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Minimum Inhibitory Concentration

Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) is lowest concentration of an antimicrobial that will inhibit the visible growth of a microorganism following overnight incubation, usually reported as mg/L

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Rectal mass

Rectal masses may be intra-luminal, mural or palpable through the rectum but arising from outside of it. Differential diagnosis.