Critical Care Compendium
The LITFL Critical Care Compendium is a comprehensive collection of pages concisely covering the core topics and controversies of critical care. Currently there are over 1,500 entries with more in the works, and all the pages are being constantly revised and improved.
Category | Topic | ||
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Cardiology | Cardiology | Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD) | |
Cardiology | Cardiology, Respiratory | Thrombolysis for submassive pulmonary embolus | |
Viva | Viva | Equipment and Procedure Viva | |
Viva | Viva | Communications Viva | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Volutrauma | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Volume versus Time Graph | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Ventilator Waveform Analysis | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Ventilation Literature Summaries | |
Ventilation | Ventilation, Respiratory | (TPP) oesophageal manometry, esophageal pressure, Pes | Transpulmonary pressure |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Spontaneous Breathing Trial (SBT), minimal ventilator settings, difficulty weaning, wean from mechanical ventilation | Spontaneous Breathing Trial |
Ventilation | Ventilation, Respiratory | Spontaneous breathing and mechanical ventilation | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Setting Up A Ventilator | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | DLT, double lumen, single, lung separation, independent | Selective Lung Ventilation |
Ventilation | Ventilation | manouver, recruitment | Recruitment Manouvres in ARDS |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Pulmonary Mechanics | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | low tidal volume | Protective lung ventilation |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Prone Position and Mechanical Ventilation | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Pressure versus Volume Loop | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Pressure versus Time Graph | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | PEEP | Positive End Expiratory Pressure |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Patient-Ventilator Dyssynchrony | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | PaO2- FiO2 Ratio | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | high PEEP, recruitment | Open lung approach to ventilation |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Non-invasive ventilation for weaning | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Neuromusclular Blockade in ARDS | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Modes of Ventilation | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Mechanical Ventilation Overview | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Indications, Complications | Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Intrinsic PEEP | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Daily, mechanically ventilated patients | Interruptions of Sedation |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Indices that predict difficulty weaning | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Improving Oxygenation in ARDS | |
Ventilation | Ventilation, Equipment | High Frequency Ventilation (HFV) | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | High Frequency Oscillation Ventilation (HFOV) | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | High airway and alveolar pressures, pressure alarm | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Flow Volume Loops | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Flow versus Time Graph | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Extubation Assessment in ICU | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Extubation Assessment in ED | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Dynamic Presure-Volume Loops | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Driving pressure | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Difficulty weaning from mechanical ventilation | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Difficulty Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Auto Triggering of the Ventilator | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | ARDSnet Ventilation Strategy | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | APRV | Airway Pressure Release Ventilation |
Ventilation | Ventilation | Adjunctive Respiratory Therapies | |
Ventilation | Ventilation | ASV | Adaptive Support Ventilation |
Ventilation | Ventilation | alveolar, arterial, oxygen, oxygenation | A-a gradient |
Vascular | Vascular | Vascular surgery literature summaries | |
Vascular | Vascular | Intra-arterial misplacement of a vascath, Vascath into an artery | Vascath misplacement |
Vascular | Vascular | Renal failure Post AAA Repair | |
Vascular | Vascular | Myocardial ischemia post AAA repair | |
Vascular | Vascular | Hypertension post AAA repair | |
Vascular | Vascular, Neurology | carotid, vertebral | Cervical artery dissection |
Vascular | Vascular | Carotid endarterectomy | |
Vascular | Vascular | AAA | Abdominal aortic aneurysm |
Upper GI | Surgery, Upper GI | Transjugular Intrahepatic Porto-systemic Shunt Procedure | TIPSS |
Upper GI | Surgery, Upper GI | Pringle Manoeuvre | Post-hemihepatectomy care |
Upper GI | Surgery, Upper GI | Pancreatitis | |
Upper GI | Surgery, Upper GI | Cholecystitis | |
Upper GI | Surgery, Upper GI | Acalculous cholecystitis | |
Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic brain injury | TBI | Traumatic Brain Injury Prognosis |
Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic brain injury | TBI | Traumatic brain injury Overview |
Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic brain injury | TBI | Traumatic Brain Injury Monitoring |
Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic brain injury | TBI | Traumatic Brain Injury Management |
Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic brain injury | TBI | Traumatic brain injury Literature Summaries |
Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic brain injury | TBI | Traumatic Brain Injury Assessment |
Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic Brain Injury, hypothermia | Temperature and TBI |
Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic brain injury | TBI | Polyuria and Traumatic Brain Injury |
Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic brain injury | severity, traumatic brain injury | Moderate head injury |
Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic Brain Injury | Lund Concept in TBI |
Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic Brain Injury | Limitations of CT Head in TBI |
Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic brain injury | TBI, intracranial pressure | Increased ICP in TBI |
Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic brain injury | DI, head injury, traumatic brain injury | Diabetes insipdus due to TBI |
Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic brain injury | apnea, TBI, hypoxia, hypercapnia, hypercarbia, catecholamine sure | Brain Impact apnoea |
Traumatic brain injury | Traumatic brain injury | BOS#, Battle | Base of skull fracture |
Trauma | Trauma | Trauma Scoring Systems | |
Trauma | Trauma, Resuscitation | Trauma Mortality and the Golden Hour | |
Trauma | Trauma | Trauma Literature Summaries | |
Trauma | Trauma | Thoracic trauma | |
Trauma | Trauma | Splenic injury grading | Spleen trauma |
Trauma | Trauma | Spinal cord anatomy and syndromes | |
Trauma | Trauma, Burns, Toxicology, Respiratory | airway burn, pneumonitis, carbon monoxide, cyanide, methemoglobinemia | Smoke inhalation |
Trauma | Trauma | haemorrhage, spontaneous | Retroperitoneal hemorrhage |
Trauma | Trauma | Refractory shock in trauma | |
Trauma | Trauma, Resuscitation | resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta | REBOA in resuscitation |
Trauma | Trauma, Radiology, Resuscitation | hybrid unit, Resuscitation with angiography, percutaneous techniques and operative repair | RAPTOR suite |
Trauma | Trauma, Administration, Safety | Prevention of Electrocution | |
Trauma | Trauma | Pre-peritoneal packing | |
Trauma | Trauma, Neurology, Neurosurgery | prophylaxis, phenytoin, levetiracetam | Post-traumatic seizures |
Trauma | Trauma | penetrating trauma | Permissive hypotension |
Trauma | Trauma | Pelvic Trauma: Angiography And Embolisation | |
Trauma | Trauma | Pelvic Trauma | |
Trauma | Trauma | Pelvic Stabilization | |
Trauma | Trauma | Pelvic Fracture Classification | |
Trauma | Trauma | Pelvic Arterial Injury | |
Trauma | Trauma | Pediatric trauma patient | |
Trauma | Trauma | Obesity and Trauma | |
Trauma | Trauma | Major Haemorrhage in Trauma | |
Trauma | Trauma | Hepatic injury grading | Liver trauma |
Trauma | Trauma, Environmental | Lightning injury | |
Trauma | Trauma | Renal injury grading | Kidney trauma |
Trauma | Trauma, Airway | rapid sequence intubation, RSI, TBI, traumatic brain injury | Ketamine RSI in head injury |
Trauma | Trauma | Initial trauma assessment | |
Trauma | Trauma | Inhalation injury | |
Trauma | Trauma | Haemostatic resuscitation, hemostatic | |
Trauma | Trauma | Haematuria in trauma | |
Trauma | Trauma | Finger thoracostomy | |
Trauma | Trauma | Fat embolism syndrome | |
Trauma | Trauma | Facial trauma | |
Trauma | Trauma | life-threatening, limb-threatening, crush syndrome, degloving, amputation, neurological compromise | Extremity injuries |
Trauma | Trauma | haemorrhage, hemorrhage | Extremity arterial injury |
Trauma | Trauma | Emergency thoracotomy | |
Trauma | Trauma | Electrical injury | |
Trauma | Trauma | (DRE) in Trauma, PR, per rectum exam | Digital Rectal Exam in trauma |
Trauma | Trauma | diaphragmatic rupture | Diaphragm injury |
Trauma | Trauma | Damage Control Surgery | Damage Control Resuscitation |
Trauma | Trauma | injury | Crush Syndrome |
Trauma | Trauma | Compartment syndrome | |
Trauma | Trauma | Cervical spine fractures | |
Trauma | Trauma | Cervical spine assessment | |
Trauma | Trauma | Burns Literature Summaries | |
Trauma | Trauma | Burns | |
Trauma | Trauma | Blunt cardiac injury | |
Trauma | Trauma | Aortic injury investigation | |
Trauma | Trauma | Analgesia in chest trauma | |
Trauma | Trauma | Acute traumatic spinal cord injury | |
Trauma | Trauma | Abdominal trauma | |
Trauma | Trauma | Abdominal CT vs DPL | |
Transplant | Transplant, Infectious diseases | Infections occurring post-transplantation | |
Transplant | Transplant | Acute Transplant Issues | |
Toxinology | Toxicology, toxinology | ixodid hard tick, acarology | Tick paralysis |
Toxinology | Toxicology, toxinology | Spider envenoming | |
Toxinology | Toxicology, toxinology | Snakebite envenoming | |
Toxinology | Toxicology, toxinology | fish, marine | Scombroid poisoning |
Toxinology | Toxicology, toxinology | poisoning, herbal | Plant toxicity |
Toxinology | Toxicology, toxinology | poisoning, fungi | Mushroom toxicity |
Toxinology | Toxicology, toxinology | jellyfish, octopus, fish | Marine envenoming |
Toxinology | Toxicology, toxinology | Redback, RBS | Does antivenom work? |
Toxinology | Toxicology, toxinology | marine, ciguatoxin | Ciguatera poisoning |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Urine drug screens, urine toxicology screens, UDS, urine toxicology screens | Urine drug screen |
Toxicology | Toxicology | TCA, overdose, sodium channel | Tricyclic antidepressant overdose |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Toxicology literature summaries | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Isopropanol, isopropyl alcohol, Ethylene Glycol, Methanol | Toxic Alcohol Ingestion |
Toxicology | Toxicology | methylxanthines | Theophylline toxicity |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Sympathomimetic toxidrome | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Sympatholytic toxidrome | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Sodium valproate overdose | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Sodium channel blocker toxicity | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Serotonin syndrome | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Sedative toxidrome | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Salicylate toxicity | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Polonium | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Paraquat poisoning | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | OGP | Organophosphate poisoning |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Opioid withdrawal | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Opioid overdose | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Neuroleptic malignant syndrome | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | MAOI | Monamine Oxidase inhibitor toxicity |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Methanol toxicity | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Methaemoglobinaemia | |
Toxicology | Toxicology, Anesthaesia, Neurology | hyperpyrexia, Michael Denborough | Malignant hyperthermia |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Local anesthetic toxicity | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Liver transplant for paracetamol toxicity | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Liver failure in toxicology | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Lithium toxicity | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | hydrazine, pyridoxine | Isoniazid toxicity |
Toxicology | Toxicology, Pharmacology | desferrioxamine | Iron overdose |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Hypoxaemia in toxicology | |
Toxicology | Toxicology, Pharmacology | Hyperthermia-associated toxidromes, serotonin syndrome, anticholingeric syndrome, sympathomimetic syndrome, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, malignant hyperthermia | Hyperthermia-associated toxidromes |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Hyperbaric oxygen for carbon monoxide poisoning | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | High-dose insulin euglycaemic therapy (HIET) | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Glucagon as an Antidote | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | gastrointestinal, whole bowel irriagtion, induced emesis, gastric lavage, charcoal activated | GI Decontamination |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Gastric lavage | |
Toxicology | Toxicology, Research | Evidence-based Toxicology | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Ethylene glycol toxicity | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | abuse, dependence | Ethanol intoxication |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Enhanced elimination | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | ECG in Toxicology | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Drug withdrawal syndromes in ICU | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | calcium | Digoxin Toxicity and Stone Heart Theory |
Toxicology | Toxicology | acute, chronic | Digoxin toxicity |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Dicobalt edetate, Hydroxocobalamin, sodium thiosulfate | Cyanide poisoning |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Corrosive ingestion | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Levamisole | Cocaine-associated chest pain |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Levamisole | Cocaine toxicity |
Toxicology | Toxicology | steroid, anabolic | Clenbuterol toxicity |
Toxicology | Toxicology, Metabolic, Renal | Citrate toxicity | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Cholinergic syndrome | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Carbon monoxide poisoning | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Carbamazepine toxicity | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Calcium channel blocker toxicity | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | sotalol, propanolol | Beta blocker overdose |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Benzylpiperazine | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Barbiturate overdose | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Approach to acute poisoning | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Antidote Summary | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Anticholinergic syndrome | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Amphetamine toxicity | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | Alcohol withdrawal | |
Toxicology | Toxicology | King's College Criteria | Acute paracetamol toxicity |
Template | Exam template | Critically Evaluate Template | |
Template | Template | Compare and Contrast Template | |
Template | Exam template | Clinical Management Template | |
Template | Exam template | Adverse Outcome Template | |
Technology | Technology | Gizmo idolatry | |
Shock | Shock | MODS, multiorgan failure, MOF, Multi Organ Dysfunction Syndrome, MODS, Multiorgan Dysfunction Syndrome | Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome |
Shock | Shock | Mitochondrial disease | Mitochondrial dysfunction |
Sepsis | Sepsis | antibiotic treatment failure | Unresolved Sepsis |
Sepsis | Sepsis | Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines 2012 | |
Sepsis | Sepsis | Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines 2008 | |
Sepsis | Sepsis | Steroids and Septic Shock Literature Summaries | |
Sepsis | Sepsis | Septic encephalopathy | |
Sepsis | Sepsis, Infectious diseases | Septic emboli | |
Sepsis | Sepsis | Septic cardiomyopathy | |
Sepsis | Sepsis | Sepsis Pathophysiology | |
Sepsis | Sepsis | Sepsis Overview | |
Sepsis | Sepsis | Sepsis Literature Summaries | |
Sepsis | Sepsis | SIRS, PIRO, severe sepsis, septic shock | Sepsis Definitions |
Sepsis | Sepsis | Sepsis biomarkers | |
Sepsis | Sepsis | Lactate clearance versus ScvO2 monitoring in sepsis | |
Sepsis | Sepsis | Initial Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock | |
Sepsis | Sepsis | CORTICUS, statin, Activated Protein C, steroids | Immunomodulatory agents in sepsis |
Sepsis | Sepsis | Fever, friend or foe | |
Sepsis | Sepsis | Early goal directed therapy in sepsis | |
Sepsis | Sepsis | Beta Blockade and Critical Illness, sepsis, adrenergic receptor | Catecholamine excess |
Rheumatology | Rheumatology | SLE | Systemic Lupus Erythematosus |
Rheumatology | Rheumatology | Scleroderma | |
Rheumatology | Rheumatology | Rheumatoid arthritis | |
Rheumatology | Rheumatology | Wegener granulomatosis, Microscopic Polyangitis, ChurgÛÒStrauss syndrome | Polyangiitis ÛÒ MPA, GPA, EGPA |
Retrieval medicine | Retrieval medicine | Transferring the critically ill | |
Retrieval medicine | Retrieval medicine | Ideal transport monitor | |
Retrieval medicine | Retrieval medicine, Ventilation, Equipment and Monitoring | Ideal helicopter ventilator | |
Retrieval medicine | Retrieval medicine | Aeromedical transport of the critically ill | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | Targeted temperature management, TTM | Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | SAAP | Selective Aortic Arch Perfusion |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | Resuscitation Team Leader | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | Resuscitation literature summaries | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | PEA, pulseless electrical activity, EMD, electromechanical dissociation | Pulseless Electrical Activity |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation, Neurology | PHM, anoxic, Lance-Adams Syndrome, MSE, myoclonic status epilepticus | Post-hypoxic myoclonus |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation, Cardiology | Post-cardiac arrest syndrome | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation, Cardiology | Post Cardiac Arrest Care | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation, Obstetrics | cesarian, hysterotomy | Perimortem caesarian section |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation, Paediatrics | ARC, australian resuscitation council | Paediatric Life support |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | Paediatric anaphylaxis | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation, Paediatrics | neonatal, ARC, australian resuscitation council | Newborn resuscitation |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation, Equipment | Mechanical CPR (mCPR), automated chest compression device, lucas, zoll, autopulse | Mechanical CPR |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | (IATH), intra-arrest cooling | Intra-arrest therapeutic hypothermia |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation, Cardiovascular | Inotropes, vasopressors and other vasoactive agents | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation, Cardiology | Immediate Post-ROSC Management | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | ILCOR Guidelines Changes (2010) | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | Hypovolaemia, hypovolemia | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation, Cardiovascular | Fluid responsiveness | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | medications, vasopressors, bicarbonate, anti-arrhythmics | Drugs for cardiac arrest |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | Drowning | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | Corticosteroids in refractory shock | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | Compression only CPR | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | Chain of Survival | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | when to stop resuscitation | Cessation of CPR |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | CO2, carbon dioxide | Capnography in Cardiac Arrest |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | ARC, BLS, australian resuscitation council | Basic life support |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | ARC, australian resuscitation council | ARC Guideline changes (2006) |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | Anti-arrhythmic drugs and cardiac arrest | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | Anaphylaxis | |
Resuscitation | Resuscitation | ARC, ALS, australian resuscitation council | Advanced life support |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Wheeze | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Ventilator Associated Pneumonia | |
Respiratory | Respiratory, Ventilation | VALI, Ventilator Induced Lung Injury, VILI | Ventilator Associated Lung Injury |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Upper airway obstruction | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Surgical Emphysema | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | SARS, MERS and the Coronaviruses | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | chest x-ray | Routine Daily CXR |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Respiratory Literature Summaries | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Pulmonary embolism | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Pneumothorax | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Pneumonia in Immunocompromised | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Pneumonia in Heart-Lung Transplant | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | oxy-Hb dissociation curve, HbO2, hemoglobin | Oxygen-Haemoglobin Dissociation Curve |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Oxygen saturation targets in critical illness | |
Respiratory | Respiratory, Cardiovascular | Oxygen extraction ratio | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | carbon dioxide retainer | Oxygen and CO2 Retention in COPD |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Open lung biopsy | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | apnea | Obstructive Sleep Apnoea |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Nosocomial pneumonia | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Nonresolving or Progressive Pneumonia | |
Respiratory | Respiratory, Ventiliation | Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) and Asthma | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | oedema, NPE | Neurogenic pulmonary edema |
Respiratory | Respiratory | oedema, NPPE | Negative pressure pulmonary edema |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Lung transplant | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Lung abscess | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Leukotriene receptor antagonists | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | IPF, Usual Interstitial Pneumonitis, idiopathic interstitial pneumonia IIP, UIP | Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Hyperbaric oxygen | |
Respiratory | Respiratory, Environmental, Wilderness medicine | acute mountain sickness, high altitude cerebral edema (HACE), high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE), high altitude retinal haemorrhages | High Altitude illness |
Respiratory | Respiratory | hemoptysis | Haemoptysis |
Respiratory | Respiratory, Ventilation, Equipment and Monitoring | thoracic, chest, lung, EIT | Electrical impedence tomography |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Diaphragmatic Palsy | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Decompression Sickness | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | BOOP, Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organising Pneumonia | Cryptogenic Organising Pneumonia |
Respiratory | Respiratory | CAP, SMART COP, SMARTCOP | Community Acquired Pneumonia |
Respiratory | Respiratory | COPD, COAD, CORD, emphysema, chronic bronchitis | Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease |
Respiratory | Respiratory, Trauma | Burns, Oxygenation and Ventilation | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Bronchopleural Fistula | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Bronchiectasis | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Mendelson syndrome | Aspiration Pneumonitis |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Aspiration Pneumonia | |
Respiratory | Respiratory, Ventilation | Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome | ARDS Literature Summaries |
Respiratory | Respiratory | Acute Severe Asthma | |
Respiratory | Respiratory | ARDS | Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Definitions |
Respiratory | Respiratory | ARDS | Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | trial | Validity of Clinical Research |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Types of research studies | |
Research | Research, Statistics | Surrogate outcomes | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Subgroup analysis | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | SMR | Standardised mortality ratio |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | NNT, absolute risk, relative risk | Risk and Numbers needed to treat |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | cohort, observational, chart review | Retrospective studies |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | ROC curve, diagnostic test | Receiver Operating Characteristics Curve |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | RCT, RCTs | Randomised control trials |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Randomisation | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Quantitative data types and tests | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Qualitative data types and tests | |
Research | Research | economics | Publication Practices Distort Science |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Propensity Score Analysis | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Practice Misalignment | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Calculation | Power and Sample Size |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Trials | Phases of Clinical Research |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Odds ratio | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | forrest plot | Meta-analysis and systematic review |
Research | Research | Medical Reversal | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | confidence interval, standard error, standard deviation | Measures of variability |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Measures of central tendency | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | regression coefficients | Logistic regression analysis |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Spearman's rank, rho | Linear regression and Correlation |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | NHMRC, Oxford | Levels and grades of evidence |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Interpretative biases | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Intention to treat analysis | |
Research | Research, Clinical governance | Intensive Care Outcomes | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Incidence and prevalence | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | APACHE, SOFA, MDM, TISS, GCS, SAPS, POSSUM | ICU Scoring Systems |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | ICU Outcomes | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | How to conduct a clinical trial | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | CONSORT | How to analyse a clinical trial |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | estimator | Hazard Ratio, Median Ratio and Kaplan-Meier Curves |
Research | Research | Fragility Index | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Fishers exact test | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Evidence based medicine | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Error in Research | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Early stopping of clinical trial | |
Research | Research | Dogma and Pseudoaxioms | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | decision making, diagnosis, likelihood ratio, sensitivity, specificity, positive, negative, predictive value, Fagan Nomogram | Diagnostic Tests in Research |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | binomial, poisson, standard normal distribution | Data distributions |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Confounders | Confounding |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Confidence intervals | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Chi square test | |
Research | Research | Case reports and case series | |
Research | Research, EBM | Case control studies | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Blinding and Allocation Concealment | |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | clinical trials | Bias in Research |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | study design | Before-and-after studies |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | scoring systems | APACHE versus SOFA |
Research | Research | knowledge translation | Animal and laboratory studies |
Research | Research, Statistics, EBM | Bayesian, adaptive clinical trial | Adaptive Trial Designs |
Renal | Renal | Renal replacement therapy, RTT | RRT Types |
Renal | Renal | Renal replacement therapy, RTT | RRT troubleshooting |
Renal | Renal | Renal replacement therapy, RTT | RRT terminology and nomenclature |
Renal | Renal | Renal replacement therapy, RTT | RRT principles in fluid management |
Renal | Renal | Renal Replacement Therapy | RRT prescription |
Renal | Renal | Renal replacement therapy, RTT, timing and patient selection for, dialysis, CVVH, CRRT, renal repalcement therapy | RRT Indications |
Renal | Renal | Renal replacement therapy, RTT | RRT Dose |
Renal | Renal | AKI, acute kidney injury | RIFLE Criteria and AKIN Classification |
Renal | Renal | Rhabdomyolysis | |
Renal | Renal | RTA, Uraemic Acidosis, uremic | Renal tubular acidosis |
Renal | Renal, Transplant | Renal transplant patient | |
Renal | Renal | Renal literature summaries | |
Renal | Renal | Renal disease biomarkers | |
Renal | Renal | Regional citrate anticoagulation | |
Renal | Renal | IHD vs SLEDD vs CVVHF | |
Renal | Renal | High volume haemofiltration | |
Renal | Renal | Hepatorenal syndrome | |
Renal | Renal | ESRD, ESRF, CKD, Chronic Kidney Disease | End-Stage Renal Failure |
Renal | Renal | Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Circuits | CRRT circuit clot prevention |
Renal | Renal | CIN | Contrast Induced Nephropathy |
Renal | Renal, Pharmacology, Infectious diseases | RRT | Antibiotic dosing in renal replacement therapy |
Renal | Renal | Acute kidney injury | |
Radiology | Radiology | Interventional radiology and the critically ill | |
Radiology | Radiology | Contrast agents, CT, MRI, medical imaging, radiographic, iodine-based, gadolinium | Contrast Agents |
Psychiatry | Psychiatry | verbal, aggressive behaviour, behavioural emergency, violence, violent | De-escalation |
Psychiatry | Psychiatry, Administration | Capacity and Competence | |
Psychiatry | Psychiatry | Anorexia nervosa | |
Procedures | Procedures | Standard Precautions | |
Procedures | Procedures | thoracocentesis | Pleural tap |
Procedures | Procedures | General Preparation for Procedures | |
Procedures | Procedure, Trauma | Foley Catheter Balloon Tamponade | |
Procedures | Procedures | Administer Injections | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Weights in Pharmacology | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Warfarin | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Vasopressin | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Vancomycin | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | TXA | Tranexamic acid |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Tramadol | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | IIb/IIIa antagonist, anti-platelet | Tirofiban |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Thiopentone | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | TDM, therapeutic window | Therapeutic drug monitoring |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Terlipressin | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | TNK-tPA | Tenecteplase |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | piperacillin-tazobactam | Tazocin |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Sugammadex | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Sucrulfate | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Statins in Critical Illness | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | K+, potassium sparing, aldosterone blockade | Spironolactone |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | beta-blocker, beta blocker | Sotalol |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Sodium valproate | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Sodium nitroprusside | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | phosphodiesterase inhibitor | Sildenafil |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Rifampicin | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Rib fracture epidural versus opioids | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Ranitidine | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Prothrombinex | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Protamine | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | eicosandoids | Prostacyclin and epoprostenol |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Propofol infusion syndrome | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Propofol | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | anticholinesterase | Physostigmine |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Phenylephrine | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Pharmacology and Critical Illness | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | extracorporeal membrane oxygenation | Pharmacokinetics and ECMO |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology, Infectious diseases, Sepsis | Paracetamol in Critical Illness | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Paracetamol | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | hyperoxia and Oxygen toxicity | Oxygen |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | opiates, opioid receptor, mu, kappa, delta, opiod, opiate, opiates | Opioids |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Omeprazole | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Octreotide | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Obesity and pharmacokinetics | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs | NSAIDs |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | norepinephrine | Noradrenaline |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Nitric oxide | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology, Hematology, Haematology | dabigatran, rivaroxaban, direct thrombin inhibitors, Factor Xa inhibitors | New oral anticoagulants (NOACs) |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | opioid receptor antagonist | Naloxone |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | glutathione supplementation | N-acetylcysteine |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Morphine | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | inodilator | Milrinone |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Midazolam | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | methylene blue | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | carbapenem | Meropenem |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology, Endocrinology | TFT, TSH | Medications and thyroid function |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | osmotic diuretic, Dahlia tubers | Mannitol |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Magnesium | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | LMWH, cleaxane, enoxaparin | Low molecular weight heparin |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Lithium | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | oxazolidinone | Linezolid |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Lidocaine | Lignocaine |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Levosimendan versus dobutamine | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Calcium sensitizer, inotrope, inodilator | Levosimendan |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Ketamine | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology, Toxicology, Nutrition | Intralipid | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Imipenem | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Hypertonic saline | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | unfractionated, UFH | Heparin |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Glucagon Therapy | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | gastrointestinal | GI drug absorption in critical illness |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Gentamicin | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Frusemide | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Flumazenil | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Fluconazole | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology, Hematology, Transfusion | rFVIIa, 7, Recombinant Activated factor VII | Factor VIIa |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Epidural complications | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Drug infusion doses | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Dopamine | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Dobutamine | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Dipyridamole | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Digoxin | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | antidote, Digoxin-specific Fab Fragments | Digibind |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | sedoanalgesia, alpha 2 agonist | Dexmedetomidine |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | bronchodilators | Delivery of beta2 agonists in intubated patients |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | COX-2 inhibitor | COX II inhibitors |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Cotrimoxazole | Co-trimoxazole |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Clopidogrel | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Classification of vasoactive drugs | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | quinolone | Ciprofloxacin |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | COX-2 inhibitor | Celecoxib |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | cephalosporin | Ceftriaxone |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | dual endothelin receptor antagonist | Bosentan |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | penicillin G | Benzylpenicillin |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Aspirin | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | antifibrinolytic | Aprotinin |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Amiodarone | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | rTPA | Alteplase |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Alkali therapies | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Alfentanil | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Adverse drug reactions | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Adrenaline | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | Adenosine | |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | drotrecogin alpha, xigris | Activated protein C |
Pharmacology | Pharmacology | decontamination | Activated charcoal |
Patient Safety | Patient Safety | Patient Safety | |
Patient Safety | Patient Safety, Communication | Open disclosure | |
Patient Safety | Patient Safety | Human Factors | |
Patient Safety | Patient Safety, Administration | Health of Critical Care Doctors | |
Patient Safety | Patient Safety, Administration | Fatigue and the Critical Care Doctor | |
Patient Safety | Patient Safety, Resuscitation | Crisis Resource Management, Crew, CRM | Crisis Resource Management |
Patient Safety | Patient Safety, Administration | Consent | |
Patient Safety | Patient Safety | Communication in a crisis | |
Patient Safety | Patient Safety | biases | Cognitive Dispositions to Respond |
Patient Safety | Patient Safety | emotional biases | Affective Dispositions to Respond |
Palliative Care | End of life, Palliative Care | Patients and Families that want 'Everything' done | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | The septic child | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | RVOT, obstruction, VSD, RVH | Tetralogy of fallot |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Status epilepticus in children | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics, Infectious Diseases | Rotavirus | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Pyloric stenosis | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Physiological changes that take place at birth | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Paediatric vital signs | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Paediatric traumatic brain injury | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Paediatric Trauma | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | RSI in a child | Paediatric Rapid Sequence Intubation |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Paediatric hypothermia | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | calculations | Paediatric formulae |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | hydration status | Paediatric dehydration assessment |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Paediatric burns | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Paediatric asthma | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Paediatric analgesia | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | circle absorption, BAIN, Jackson-Rees, Ayre T-piece, Mapleson F system | Paediatric anaesthetic equipment |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Paediatric access options in cardiac arrest | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Inhaled foreign body | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics, Resuscitation | FEAST, paediatric fluid resuscitation, children, trial | FEAST and Paediatric Fluid Resuscitation |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics, Anaesthetics, Neurology | Effects Of Anaesthetic Agents On The Developing Brain | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Early Management of the Critically Ill Child | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Croup | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Congenital heat disease | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Coarctation of the aorta | |
Paediatrics | Paediatrics | Bronchiolitis | |
Oncology | Oncology | SVC, Pemberton sign | Superior Vena Cava (SVC) Obstruction |
Oncology | Oncology | Renal and urological toxicity of chemotherapy | |
Oncology | Oncology | Pulmonary toxicity of chemotherapy | |
Oncology | Oncology | Febrile neutropenia, neutropenia, neutropaenic fever, neutropenic | Neutropaenic Sepsis |
Oncology | Oncology | Neurological toxicity of chemotherapy | |
Oncology | Oncology | Metabolic toxicity of chemotherapy | |
Oncology | Oncology | Haematological toxicity of chemotherapy | |
Oncology | Oncology | Cardiac toxicity of chemotherapy | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | venous thromboembolism | VTE and pregnancy |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Trauma and obstetrics | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Status asthmaticus and pregnancy | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Sepsis and Pregnancy | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Pregnancy and intensive care | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Pneumonia in pregnancy | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Physiology of normal pregnancy | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Peripartum cardiomyopathy | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | PID | Pelvic inflammatory disease |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | OHSS | Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetric and Gynecology Literature Summaries | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Influenza and pregnancy | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelets | HELLP syndrome |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Hemorrhage | Haemorrhage and pregnancy |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Ectopic pregnancy | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Eclampsia | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | CPR and pregnancy | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Cocaine toxicity and obstetrics | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Cardiogenic shock and late pregnancy | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Burns and pregnancy | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | AFE | Amniotic fluid embolism |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Acute respiratory failure | |
Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Obstetrics, Gynaecology | Acute fatty liver of pregnancy | |
Nutrition | Nutrition, Metabolic | Vitamin D in Critical Illness | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | TPN | Total parenteral nutrition |
Nutrition | Nutrition, Neurology | beri beri, Wernicke encephalopathy, Korsakoff encephalopathy | Thiamine deficiency |
Nutrition | Nutrition | rest versus stress | Substrate metabolism |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Starvation response | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Refeeding syndrome | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Prokinetics | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Poor nutrition in the critically ill | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | NBM, NPO, procedural sedation, post-operative, general anaesthesia | Periprocedural Fasting |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Overfeeding | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Nutritional assessment in the critically ill | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | TITLE | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Nutrition in the Critically Ill Obese Patient | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Intolerance to enteral nutrition | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Indirect calorimetry | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Immunonutrition | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Glucose control in ICU | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Folate deficiency | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy | Feeding NG versus PEG versus percutaneous jejunostomy |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Enteral nutrition vs parenteral nutrition | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Daily nutritional requirements | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Cachexia | |
Nutrition | Nutrition | Basal metabolic rate | |
Neurosurgery | Neurosurgery | Ventriculitis | |
Neurosurgery | Neurosurgery | SAH, hemorrhage | Vasospasm in Subarachnoid Haemorrhage |
Neurosurgery | Neurosurgery | SAH, hemorrhage | Subarachnoid Haemorrhage Prognostication |
Neurosurgery | Neurosurgery | SAH, hemorrhage | Subarachnoid Haemorrhage overview |
Neurosurgery | Neurosurgery | SAH, hemorrhage | Subarachnoid Haemorrhage Initial Management |
Neurosurgery | Neurosurgery | SAH, hemorrhage | Subarachnoid Haemorrhage ICU Management |
Neurosurgery | Neurosurgery | SAH, hemorrhage, GCS, Hunt, Hess, Claassen, WFNS, Fisher | Subarachnoid Haemorrhage Grading Systems |
Neurosurgery | Neurosurgery | SAH, hemorrhage | Subarachnoid Haemorrhage Complications |
Neurosurgery | Neurosurgery | Neurosurgery Literature Summaries | |
Neurosurgery | Neurosurgery | SAH, hemorrhage | Monitoring in Subarachnoid Haemorrhage |
Neurosurgery | Neurosurgery | Decompressive craniectomy | |
Neurosurgery | Neurosurgery | SAH, hemorrhage | Coiling versus Clipping in SAH |
Neurosurgery | Neurosurgery | CPP, Traumatic Brain Injury | Cerebral Perfusion Pressure in TBI |
Neurosurgery | Neurosurgery | CDI, nephrogenic | Central diabetes insipidus |
Neurology | Neurology | Wernicke encephalopathy | |
Neurology | Neurology | Watershed infarcts | |
Neurology | Neurology | Transverse myelitis | |
Neurology | Neurology | Stroke thrombolysis | |
Neurology | Neurology | Status epilepticus | |
Neurology | Neurology | Spinal cord syndromes | |
Neurology | Neurology | Spinal cord infarction | |
Neurology | Neurology | disruption, cycle, circadian rhythm, deprivation | Sleep in ICU |
Neurology | Neurology | Sedation in ICU | |
Neurology | Neurology | Pupillary abnormalities | |
Neurology | Neurology | Pseudocoma | |
Neurology | Neurology | Prognosis after cardiac arrest | |
Neurology | Neurology | Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome | PRES |
Neurology | Neurology | Post-operative confusion | |
Neurology | Neurology | caloric testing, Doll'e eye test, phenomenom | Oculocephalic and oculovestibular reflexes |
Neurology | Neurology | Non-convulsive status epilepticus | |
Neurology | Neurology | Neurology literature summaries | |
Neurology | Neurology | Myopathy versus neuropathy | |
Neurology | Neurology | Myasthaenia gravis | |
Neurology | Neurology | Critical Illness-associated cognitive dysfunction, LTCI-CI | long-term cognitive impairment in critically ill patients, Critical Illness-associated cognitive dysfunction |
Neurology | Neurology | Intracerebral haemorrhage | |
Neurology | Neurology | ICUAW, critical illness myopathy, CIM, critical illness polyneuropathy, CIP, | ICU acquired weakness |
Neurology | Neurology | ischaemic, ischemic, encephalopathy | Hypoxic brain injury |
Neurology | Neurology | HSV encephalitis | |
Neurology | Neurology | Horner syndrome | |
Neurology | Neurology | deafness, deaf | Hearing loss in ICU |
Neurology | Neurology | GBS | Guillain-Barre Syndrome |
Neurology | Neurology, Trauma, Neurosurgery | Score, GCS | Glasgow Coma Scale |
Neurology | Neurology | GBS, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, motor neuron disease | GBS vs Myasthaenia Gravis vs MND |
Neurology | Neurology | Guillain-Barre Syndrome, GBS, Critical Illness Polyneuropathy, CIP | GBS vs CIP |
Neurology | Neurology | Eye Movements in Coma | |
Neurology | Neurology | Examination of the unconscious patient | |
Neurology | Neurology, Equipment, Monitoring | EEG, Electroencephalography | Electroencephalogram |
Neurology | Neurology | Delirium in ICU | |
Neurology | Neurology | Delayed awakening in ICU | |
Neurology | Neurology, Neurosurgery | Decompressive hemicraniectomy for Malignant MCA infarction | |
Neurology | Neurology, Equipment, Monitoring | EEG, Electroencephalography | Continuous EEG Monitoring |
Neurology | Neurology | coma-like syndromes | |
Neurology | Neurology | loss of conciousness, stupor, obtundation, altered mental state | Coma DDx |
Neurology | Neurology, Haematology | cavernous sinus thrombosis, venous sinus thrombosis | Cerebral Venous Thrombosis |
Neurology | Neurology | edema | Cerebral oedema |
Neurology | Neurology | Bulbar dysfunction in ICU | |
Neurology | Neurology | Brainstem Rules of Four | |
Neurology | Neurology | Brain herniation | |
Neurology | Neurology | Botulism | |
Neurology | Neurology | Basilar artery occlusion | |
Neurology | Neurology | Aseptic meningitis | |
Neurology | Neurology | Anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis | |
Neurology | Neurology | Acute non-traumatic weakness | |
Neurology | Neurology | Acute confusion in a diabetic | |
Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous | The long-term ICU Patient | |
Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous | Supra-physiological Oxygenation Literature Summaries | |
Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous | Mobilisation in ICU | |
Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous | hiccups | Hiccoughs |
Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous | Genetics and Critical Illness | |
Microbiology | Microbiology, Infectious diseases, Sepsis | inter-cellular communication, bacteria | Quorum sensing |
Metabolic | Metabolic | hyperchloremia, hyperchloraemia | Chloride in Critical Illness |
Metabolic | Metabolic, Resuscitation, Environmental | ABG, Resuscitation, Environmental, resus | Arterial Blood Gas in Hypothermia |
Metabolic | Metabolic | hyperammonemia | Ammonia and hyperammonaemia |
Investigations | Investigations | venous, arterial, blood gas | VBG versus ABG |
Investigations | Investigations | Ultrasound in Critical Care | |
Investigations | Investigations | TFT, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism | Thyroid Function Tests |
Investigations | Investigations | Antithrombin III deficiency, ATIII | Thrombophilia screen |
Investigations | Investigations | TEG, thromboelastography, ROTEM | Thromboelastogram |
Investigations | Investigations | joint fluid, aspirate | Synovial fluid analysis |
Investigations | Investigations | Faeces, feces, stool analysis, specimen | Stool specimens |
Investigations | Investigations | Spirometry | |
Investigations | Investigations | Spinal imaging | |
Investigations | Investigations | Procalcitonin | |
Investigations | Investigations | Pleural effusion | |
Investigations | Investigations | PFA, PFA-100 | Platelet function assays |
Investigations | Investigations | Paracentesis, Ascitic Tap, ascites, exudate, transudate, serum:ascites, ratio, gradient | Peritoneal Fluid Analysis |
Investigations | Investigations | osmometers | Osmolar gap |
Investigations | Investigations | MRI Head | |
Investigations | Investigations | MRI and the critically ill | |
Investigations | Investigations | complete, examination, picture, FBP, FBE, FBC, CBC, CBE, CBP | Full blood count |
Investigations | Investigations | Somatosensory Evoked Potentials, SSEPs | Evoked Potentials in Critical Care |
Investigations | Investigations | ESR | Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate |
Investigations | Investigations | D-dimer | |
Investigations | Investigations | CT Head Interpretation | |
Investigations | Investigations | CT Head | |
Investigations | Investigations | CT Chest | |
Investigations | Investigations | cerebrospinal fluid, LP, lumbar puncture | CSF analysis |
Investigations | Investigations | C-reactive protein | CRP |
Investigations | Investigations | screen, coags | Coagulation profile |
Investigations | Investigations | creatine kinase | CK-MB |
Investigations | Investigations | Chest x-ray interpretation | |
Investigations | Investigations | Bone marrow biopsy | |
Investigations | Investigations | brain natriuretic peptide | BNP |
Investigations | Investigations | Blood film | |
Investigations | Investigations | Bleeding time | |
Investigations | Investigations | Rhesus, Progesterone | BHCG, Rhesus D and Progesterone |
Investigations | Investigations | Autoimmune markers | |
Investigations | Investigations | Paracentesis, Ascitic Tap, ascites, exudate, transudate, serum:ascites, ratio, gradient | Ascitic fluid |
Investigations | Investigations | arterial blood gas | ABG |
Investigations | Investigations | AXR | Abdominal X-ray interpretation |
Investigations | Investigations | AXR, Rigler | Abdominal X-ray and CT |
Investigations | Investigations | Abdominal ultrasound | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Waterborne infection | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Vibrio infection | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Varicella zoster | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | VRE | Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Urosepsis | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | TB | Tuberculosis |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Transmission-based precautions | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Toxoplasmosis | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Staphylococcal, TSS | Toxic shock syndrome |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Tetanus | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases, Microbiology | Stenotrophomonas maltophilia | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | VISA, VRSA, MRSA | Staphylococcus aureus |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | universal, body substance isolation | Standard precautions |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases, Neurosurgery | Spinal epidural abscess | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Specific infections and causative organisms | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Soil-related infections | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | SDD | Selective digestive decontamination |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Q fever | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Pressure areas and pressure ulcers | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Post-splenectomy care | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | PCP, PJP, jiroveci | Pneumocystis pneumonia |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Other bacteria | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | healthcare associated infections (HAI) | Nosocomial infections in ICU |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Nocardia, Nocardiosis | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Needlestick injuries | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Necrotizing fascititis | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Mycoplasma pneumoniae | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Multi-resistent bacteria outbreak | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | MRO, MROs | Multi-Resistant Organisms |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | rhizopus, rhinocerebral | Mucormycosis |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | MIC, MBC, minimum bactericidal concentration | Minimum inhibitory concentration |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Meningococcaemia | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Melioidosis | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Malaria | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Listeria | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | weil disease | Leptospirosis |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Lemierre syndrome | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Influenza | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Infective endocarditis | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Infectious disease literature summaries | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Infections in the immunocompromised | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | HIV and AIDS | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | HAI, HAIs | Healthcare Associated Infections |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | handwash, nosocomial | Handwashing in ICU |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Hand hygiene | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | mycosis, fungal infection, fungus | Fungi |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Encephalitis | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | filovirus, filoviridae, Ebola Haemorrhagic fever, hemorrhagic, disease | Ebola virus |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Definitions in infectious diseases | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | cryptococcal disease, meningitis, cryptococcus | Cryptococcosis |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | cytomegalovirus | CMV infection |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Classification of antibacterials | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Cholera | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | CLABSI, CRBSI, cathether, CVC, CVL, venous | Central line infections |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Cellulitis | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Candidiasis | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Bacterial meningitis | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Aspergillosis | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Antimicrobial quick reference | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases, Pharmacology | time-dependent, concentration-dependent, killing, antibiotic | Antimicrobial kill characteristics |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases, Sepsis, Pharmacology | sepsis, meningitis, pneumonia, delays | Antibiotic timing |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | MINDME | Antibiotic stewardship |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Antibiotic guideline in ICU | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | Antibacterial resistance | |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | GPB | Aerobic gram positive bacteria |
Infectious diseases | Infectious diseases | GNB | Aerobic gram negative bacteria |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Weaning from ventilation HOT CASE | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Weakness hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Transplant patient hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Tracheostomy ready for decannulation HOT CASE | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | SAH | Subarachnoid haemorrhage hot case |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Spinal injury patient hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Shock hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Respiratory failure hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Post cardiac surgery hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Polyuria hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | renal failure | Oliguria and anuria hot case |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Obstetric patient hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Neutropaenic | Neutropenic fever hot case |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Multi-trauma hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | MODS, multi-organ dysfunction syndrome, MOF | Multi-organ failure hot case |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Long stay patient hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Jaundice hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | acute abdomen | Intra-abdominal catastrophe hot case |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Hot case templates | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Head injury patient hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | General approach to the hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | sepsis | Fever hot case |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Extubation assessment HOT CASE | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | COPD hot case |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Coma hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Cardiac arrest survivor hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Burns patient hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | Brain death hot case | |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | obesity | Bariatric patient hot case |
HOT CASE | HOT CASE | abdominal aortic aneurysm | AAA repair hot case |
History | Principles | History of Emergency Medicine | |
Hepatology | Hepatology, Gastrointestinal, Equipment | MARS | Molecular Adsorbent Recirculating System |
Hepatology | Hepatology, Infectious diseases, Gastrointestinal | Acute ascending cholangitis | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | Venous Thromboembolism | VTE Prophylaxis |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | von Willebrand Disease | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology, Oncology | tumor lysis | Tumour Lysis Syndrome |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology, Transfusion | Transfusion Literature Summaries | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology, Transfusion | transfusion related lung injury | TRALI |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | TTP | Thrombocytopaenic Thrombotic Purpura |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | thrombocytopenia, low platelets | Thrombocytopaenia |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology, Transfusion | Storage Lesions | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | disease, anaemia, anemia, acute chest syndrome, vaso-occlusive disease, acute splenic sequestration, aplastic, priapism | Sickle cell crisis |
Haematology | Haematology, Toxicology | haemorrhage, bleeding, toxicity, NOAC, eliquis | Rivaroxaban and bleeding |
Haematology | Haematology, Procedures | Procedures and Coagulopathy | |
Haematology | Haematology | Hemorrhage, bleeding after | Post-Thrombolysis Haemorrhage |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | Porphyria | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | polycythaemia rubra vera, Polycythemia | Polycythaemia |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | phlegmasia alba dolens | Phlegmasia Cerulea Dolens |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | Pancytopenia | Pancytopaenia |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | Oozing from a Venepuncture Site | |
Haematology | Haematology, Transfusion, Pharmacology | Massive Transfusion Protocol | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | Massive Blood Loss | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | Lupus Anticoagulants | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology, Transfusion | RBC, red blood cells | Leukodepleted Blood |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | Isolated Elevated APTT | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | IV IG | Intravenous Immunoglobulin |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | Heparin Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopaenia Syndrome | HITTS |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology, Transplant, Hepatology | SOS, VOD, Sinusoidal Obstruction Syndrome | Hepatic veno-occlusive disease |
Haematology | Haematology, Sepsis | HLH, syndrome, haemophagocytic | Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | HUS, Therapy-related TTP, Haemolytic Uremic Syndrome | Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | anemia, hemolytic, haemolysis, hemolysis | Haemolytic anaemia |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | Haematology Literature Summaries | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | Haematological Emergencies | |
Haematology | Haematology, Pharmacology | EPO | Erythropoietin |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | Xarelto, NOAC | Dabigatran and Bleeding |
Haematology | Haematology, Transfusion, Pharmacology | Cryoprecipitate | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | GVHD | Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology, Transplant | Bone Marrow Transplantation | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology, Transfusion | Blood Transfusion Risks | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology, Transfusion | Blood Transfusion in ICU | |
Haematology | Haematology, Transfusion, Pharmacology | Blood products | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | Blood Product Compatibilities | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology, Transfusion | Blood Conservation Strategies | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology, Transfusion | Pre-Transfusion Testing | Blood Bank |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | Apheresis, Plasmapheresis | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | APLS, antiphospholipid | Antiphospholipid Syndrome |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | Anaemia | |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology, Transplant | GVHD | Acute Graft Versus Host Disease |
Haematology | Haematology, Hematology | trauma-induced coagulopathy (TIC), traumatic | Acute Coagulopathy of Trauma |
Geriatrics | Geriatrics, Trauma | elderly, neglect | Elder abuse |
General surgery | General surgery | TURP syndrome | |
General surgery | General Surgery, Gastroenterology | Toxic megacolon | |
General surgery | General surgery | Psoas abscess | |
General surgery | General Surgery, Gastroenterology | Problems after bariatric surgery | |
General surgery | General surgery | Mesenteric ischaemia | |
General surgery | General surgery | Ileus | |
General surgery | General surgery | Abdominal compartment syndrome | |
General medicine | General medicine | Stroke Volume Variation | Systolic pressure variation |
General medicine | General medicine, cardiology | Signs of tetralogy of fallot | |
General medicine | General medicine | digital, DRE | Rectal examination |
General medicine | General medicine | Pulsus alternans | |
General medicine | General medicine | Neck stiffness DDx | |
General medicine | General medicine | Massive abdominal distention | |
General medicine | General medicine | Marfan syndrome | |
General medicine | General medicine | Intracranial hypertension signs | |
General medicine | General medicine | Heart sound abnormalities | |
General medicine | General medicine | Granulomatous diseases | |
General medicine | General medicine | Geography and disease | |
General medicine | General medicine | Frailty syndrome | |
General medicine | General medicine | Elderly and critical care | |
General medicine | General medicine | Double peak on arterial pulse | |
General medicine | General medicine, neurology | Myotomes | Differentiating nerve lesions |
General medicine | General medicine | Cyanosis | |
General medicine | General medicine | Clubbing | |
General medicine | General medicine | Clinical examination of the critically ill | |
General medicine | General medicine | Aortic regurgitation signs | |
General medicine | General medicine | zoonoses | Animal encounters and disease |
Gastroenterology | Gastroenterology | PPI, PPIs | Stress ulcer prophylaxis |
Gastroenterology | Gastroenterology | SBP | Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis |
Gastroenterology | Gastroenterology | Portopulmonary syndrome | |
Gastroenterology | Gastrointestinal, Hepatology, Haematology | superior mesenteric vein, inferior, SMV, IMV, splenic vein | Portal vein thrombosis |
Gastroenterology | Gastroenterology | Portal hypertension | |
Gastroenterology | Gastroenterology, Transplant Medicine | Liver transplantation | |
Gastroenterology | Gastroenterology | scoring systems | Liver failure definitions |
Gastroenterology | Gastroenterology | Hepatopulmonary syndrome | |
Gastroenterology | Gastroenterology | bleeding, gastrointestinal, upper, lower, hemorrhage | GI haemorrhage |
Gastroenterology | Gastroenterology | Gastrointestinal Literature Summaries | |
Gastroenterology | Gastrointestinal | enteral feeding, intolerance | Gastric Residual Volume |
Gastroenterology | Gastroenterology | Fulminant hepatic failure | |
Gastroenterology | Gastroenterology | Coagulopathy in liver dysfunction | |
Gastroenterology | Gastroenterology | Pseudomembranous Colitis, PMC, Enterocolitis | Clostridium difficile and PMC |
Gastroenterology | Gastroenterology | Chronic liver disease | |
Gastroenterology | Gastrointestional, Endocrine | tumor, tumour | Carcinoid syndrome |
Gastroenterology | Gastroenterology | Abnormal LFTs post-vascular surgery | |
Fluids | Fluids | Perioperative fluid management | |
Fluids | Fluids, Resuscitation | Passive Leg Raise | |
Fluids | Fluids | Glycocalyx in Critical Illness | |
Fluids | Fluids | GIPS, capillary leak syndrome | Global Increased Permeability Syndrome |
Fluids | Fluids | Fluid Therapy Literature Summaries | |
Fluids | Fluids, Resuscitation | Fluid challenge | |
Fluids | Fluids, Sepsis, Resuscitation | sepsis | Fluid bolus therapy |
Fluids | Fluids | daily, cumulative, assessment, chart | Fluid balance |
Fluids | Fluids, Equipment | Fluid administration device flow rates | |
Fluids | Fluids | de-resuscitation | Deresuscitation and positive fluid balance |
Fluids | Fluids | Assessing fluid status | |
Fluids | Fluids | Albumin versus normal saline | |
Fluids | Fluids | Albumin | |
Ethics | Ethics | Medical futility | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Wet Circuit | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Bair hugger, patient warming system | Warming blanket |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | VAD | Ventricular Assist Device |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring, Ventilation | Ventilator alarms | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Vacuum Drain Bottle | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Foley, IDC, Indwelling | Urinary Catheterization |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Foley, IDC, Indwelling | Urinary Catheter |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Tube securing devices | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Transcutaneous Pacing | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | TCD, ultrasound, Lindegaard Ratio | Transcranial Doppler |
Equipment | Equipment, Airway | Tracheostomy tubes | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Tissue Oxygenation Assessment | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | self-advancing nasal jejunal enteric feeding, nasojejunal | Tiger tube |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Testing Gas Supply and Suction | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Temporary Transvenous Cardiac Pacing | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Temporary Epicardial Cardiac Pacing | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | DVT and VTE prophylaxis, thromboembolic deterrent | TED stockings |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Swivel connector | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | venous oxygen saturation, central versus pulmonary | SvO2 vs ScvO2 |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Mixed venous oxygen saturation | SvO2 monitoring |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Site of Temperature Measurement in the Critically Ill | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Senkstaken-Blackmore and Minnesota Tubes | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Central venous oxygen saturation | ScvO2 monitoring |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Rotameter, flow meter | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Regulator for Medical Suction Outlet | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Regional Anaesthesia in the Critically Ill | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | RIC Line | Rapid infusion catheter |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Pulse Oximetry | Pulse Oximeter |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Pulmonary haemorrhage after PAOP measurement | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | PAOP, PAWP, Wedging, Pulmonary Artery Occlusion Pressure | Pulmonary Artery Wedge Pressure |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | PAC, Swan-Ganz, yellow snake | Pulmonary Artery Catheter |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Pressure Monitoring Definitions | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Pitt Speaking Tube | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | PiCCO | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | PIVC, venflon | Peripheral intravenous cannula |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Pericardiocentesis | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy | PEG tube |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Passy Muir Valve | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | PAC vs TOE in Shock | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | pulmonary artery catheter, Swan-Ganz | PAC measurement troubleshooting |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Pulmonary Artery Catheter | PAC Literature Summaries |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | pulmonary artery catheter, Swan-Ganz | PAC insertion troubleshooting |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Oxylator | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Oxygen Cylinder | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Guedel, OPA | Oropharyngeal airway |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Esophageal | Oesophageal Doppler |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Partial rebreathing, NRB | Non-rebreathing Oxygen Mask |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | NIBP | Non-invasive Blood Pressure |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | train of four, neuromuscular blockade | Nerve stimulator |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Nebulizer | Nebuliser |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | NPA | Nasopharyngeal airway |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Nasogastric and Orogastric Tubes | |
Equipment | Equipment, Trauma | MAST, medical anti-shock | Military Anti-Shock Trousers |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Practical Approach | Mechanical Circulatory Support |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | McCoy Laryngoscope Blade | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Magnet | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Magill forceps | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Laryngoscope and blades | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Jugular Bulb Oxygen Saturation | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | IVC filter, VTE prophylaxis, inferior vena cava | IVC Filter |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Intraosseous needle insertion | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Overview | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | IAP | Intra-abdominal pressure monitor |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | IPC, sequential, pressurization, DVT and VTE prophylaxis | Intermittent Pressurisation Compression |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | ICC, intercostal catheter | Intercostal Drain Insertion |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | intercostal catheter, ICC, Chest Drain | Intercostal Catheter |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Indications for Extracorporeal Therapies | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Humidification | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring, History | PAC, Swan-Ganz, yellow snake | History of the Pulmonary Artery Catheter |
Equipment | Equipment, Ventilation | High Flow Nasal Cannula, HFNC, Heated and Humidifed | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring, Pharmacology | helium | Heliox |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Heat and Moisture Exchanger | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring, Renal, Toxicology | hemoperfusion, charcoal | Haemoperfusion |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Glidescope | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Gastric Tonometry | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Flotrac | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Fiberoptic, Lukens | Flexible bronchoscope |
Equipment | Equipment | Fenestrated Tracheostomy Tube | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Face masks | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Extradural ICP monitors | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | , EVD, ICP monitors | External Ventricular Drain |
Equipment | Equipment | ENK Oxygen Flow Delivery System | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | ETT | Endotracheal Tube |
Equipment | Equipment, Respiratory | Endotracheal suction and catheter | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | thoracentesis | Emergency Thoracocentesis |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Electromagnetic interference | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Electrical Safety Devices | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Electrical Concepts and Definitions | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, ECLS | ECMO Troubleshooting |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, ECLS | ECMO overview |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, ECLS | ECMO Literature Summaries |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Endotracheal Tube, double lumen, DLT | Double Lumen Endotracheal Tube |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | IABP, intra-arterial, non-invasive, blood pressure | NIBP and Arterial Lines Pressure |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Defibrillators | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | paddles | Defibrillation pads |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | CVP Measurement | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Cuff Pressure gauge | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring, Renal | RRT, renal replacement therapy, Hemodialysis | CRRT Haemodialysis Filter |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring, Renal | CRRT | Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Circuits |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | bolt | Codman ICP Monitor |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Co-oximeter | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Cleaning Bronchoscope | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | underwater seal | Chest Drainage System |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | CVC | Central Venous Catheters |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Fick principle | Cardiac Output Measurement |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | CO2, carbon dioxide | Capnography waveform interpretation |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | CO2, carbon dioxide | Capnography and CO2 detectors |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Bubble CPAP | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Bronchial blocker | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Blood warmer | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Blood gas syringe | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | machine, arterial, venous | Blood Gas Analyser |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Blood filter | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Collection | Blood Culture Bottles |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Bite block | |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | depth of anaesthesia, bispectral index | BIS Monitoring |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Bag-Mask, BVM, bag-mask-ventilator, Laerdal, Ambu bag | Bag-Valve-Mask Ventilation |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring, Transfusion | cell salvage, cell saver, chest tube | Autotransfusion device |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Arterial line, IABP, intra-arterial blood pressure | Arterial line and Pressure Transducer |
Equipment | Equipment and Monitoring | Cook, Aintree | Airway exchange catheter |
ENT | ENT, Infectious disease | submandibular space | Ludwig Angina |
ENT | ENT | Epistaxis | |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | hyperthyroidism, thyrotoxicosis | Thyroid storm |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | Stress induced hyperglycemia | |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | Steroid conversion | |
Endocine | Endocine, Surgery | Post-parathyroidectomy care | |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | Pheochromocytoma | |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | Oxidative stress in critical illness | |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | Obesity | |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | hypothyroidsim | Myxoedema coma |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | Hypothermia | |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | Hypokalaemic, K+, potassium | Hypokalemic periodic paralysis |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | Hyperthermia | |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | HHS | Hyperosmolar Hyperglycaemic State |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | Heat stroke | |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | Glucose control literature summaries | |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | DKA | Diabetic ketoacidosis |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | Corticosteroids overview | |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | Pathophysiology | Complications of Obesity |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | Alcoholic ketoacidosis | |
Endocine | Endocrine, Metabolic | Adrenal insufficiency | |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes | Urinary electrolytes | |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes | Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone Secretion | SIADH vs Cerebral Salt Wasting |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes | syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion, antidiuretic hormone | TITLE |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes | hypermagnesaemia, hypomagnesaemia, hypermagnesemia, hypomagnesemia, magnesium, Mg2+ | Magnesium Overview |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes | hypophosphatemia, phosphate, PO4 | Hypophosphataemia |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes | hyponatremia, sodium Na+ | Hyponatraemia |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes | hypokalemia, potassium, K+ | Hypokalaemia |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes | hypocalcemia, calcium, ca2+, | Hypocalcaemia |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes | hyperphosphatemia, phosphate, PO4 | Hyperphosphataemia |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes | hypernatremia, sodium Na+ | Hypernatraemia |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes | hyperkalemia, potassium, K+ | Hyperkalaemia management |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes | hypercalcemia, calcium, ca2+, | Hypercalcaemia |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes | Electrolyte abnormalities summary | |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes | renal | Cerebral salt wasting |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes | calcium, ca2+, advantages, disadvantages | Calcium replacement |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes, Endocrine, Metabolic | calcium, ca2+, | Calcium metabolism |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes | calcium, ca2+, | Calcium basics |
Electrolytes | Electrolytes, Pharmacology, Cardiovascular | inotrope, vasopressor, calcium, ca2+, | Calcium as an inopressor |
Education | Education, Simulation | In Situ Simulation | |
Education | Education Theory | Deliberate practice | |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | TTE | Transthoracic echocardiography |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | TOE, TEE | Transoesophageal echocardiography |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | Shunts and echocardiography | |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | right ventricular, assessment, RV | RV function echocardiography, |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | Pulmonary Hypertension echocardiography | |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | Mitral stenosis echocardiography | |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | Mitral regurgitation echocardiography | |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | left ventricular, assessment | LV function echocardiography |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | Intracardiac masses echocardiography | |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | Infective endocarditis echocardiography | |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | Echocardiography Overview | |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | Echocardiography in Intensive Care | |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | Cardiomyopathy echocardiography | |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | Aortic stenosis echocardiography | |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | echo | Aortic regurgitation echocardiography |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | TOE, TTE | Aortic dissection echocardiography |
Echo, ultrasound | Echocardiography, Ultrasound | AMI, echo | Acute Myocardial infarction echocardiography |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Endocrine, Oncology, Psychiatry, Infectious diseases | Weight loss | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology, Musculoskeletal | Wasting of the small muscles of the hand | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Cardiology | ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, flutter | VT and VF DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology, Radiology | hydrocephalus, CT head | Ventriculomegaly |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis | turbidity, urinalysis | Urine transparency |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis | odor, urinalysis | Urine odour |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis | sodium, anion gap, urinary anion gap UAG | Urine electrolytes |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis | color, urinalysis | Urine colour |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis | Urinalysis | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Laboratory, Metabolic | urate | Uric acid |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Laboratory, Renal | BUN, blood urea nitrogen, BUN-Cr, ratio | Urea Creatinine ratio |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Laboratory, Renal | BUN, blood urea nitrogen | Urea |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Gastrointestinal | DDX, hemorrhage, GI | Upper Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Ophthalmology | Tunnel vision | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | Tremor | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Respiratory | Tracheal displacement | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Toxicology | Toxicological causes of cardiac arrest | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Toxicology | Toxic agents and abnormal vital signs | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Dermatology, Immunology | Thickened tethered skin | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Cardiology | narrow complex, wide complex, irregular, regular | Tachycardia DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Cardiology, Respiratory, Oncology | superior vena cava, pemberton, hugh spear pemberton | SVC Obstruction DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Cardiology | SVT, atrioventricular tachydysrhythmia, AVNRT, AVRT | Supraventricular tachycardia DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | DDX, thunderclap, abrupt onset | Sudden severe headache |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Dermatology, Hematology | splinter hemorrhage | Splinter hemorrhage |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Hematology | enlarged spleen | Splenomegaly |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, ENT, Infectious diseases | pharyngitis | Sore throat |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Gastrointestinal | Small bowel obstruction DDx | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Dermatology, Oncology | tumor, benign, malignant | Skin tumour |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Metabolic, Investigation | syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion, antidiuretic hormone | TITLE |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Cardiology, Musculoskeletal | radiating down the arm | Shoulder pain DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Cardiology | cardiogenic, obstructive, distributive, endocrine | Shock DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Dermatology | DDX, infarcts, pupura, rash, blisters, vesicles, oral lesions, exfoliatve, pustules, scaling, wheals, facial edema, oedema | Serious skin signs in sick patients |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | SICK DRIFTER, epilepsy, status epilepticus, seizure mimics | Seizures |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Genitourinary | Scrotal mass | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Ophthalmology | Retinal haemorrhage | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Laboratory, Metabolic | Respiratory alkalosis | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Laboratory, Metabolic | Respiratory acidosis | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Ophthalmology | painful, painless | Red eye |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Gastrointestinal | Rectal mass | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | DDX, nerve root | Radiculopathy |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Cardiology | Pulsus Paradoxus | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Cardiology | PEA, EMD, pulseless electrical activity, electromechanical dissociation | Pulseless electrical activity DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Respiratory, Radiology | chest x-ray DDX, consolidation, airspace filling, nodular, reticular, reticulonodular | Pulmonary opacities on CXR |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Respiratory, Radiology, Investigation | SCHART-S, RASCO | Pulmonary fibrosis DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Respiratory, Radiology | Pseudoinfiltrates on CXR | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Orthopedics, Radiology, Musculoskeletal, Trauma | fracture mimics | Pseudofracture DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Cardiology | Post-resuscitation syndrome | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Respiratory, Laboratory | exudate, transudate, gradient, ratio | Pleural Fluid Analysis |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | painful, predominately motor, mononeuritis multiplex, DAM IT BICH | Peripheral neuropathy DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, ENT, Head and Neck | enlargement | Parotid swelling |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | Parkinsonism DDx | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Dermatology | Palmar erythema | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Ophthalmology | papiloedema, optic atrophy, papillitis | Optic disc abnormality |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Cardiology | systolic, diastolic, continuous | Murmurs DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | DDX, hypokinesia, hyperkinesia | Movement disorders |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | stiff neck | Meningism |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Gastrointestinal | Medical causes of abdominal pain | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Radiology, Investigation | portable chest x-ray, widened mediastinum, AP | Mediastinal widening on portable x-ray |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Respiratory | hemoptysis | Massive haemoptysis DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Gastrointestinal | Malabsorption DDX | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Gastrointestinal | DDX, hemorrhage, GI | Lower Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Ophthalmology | visual loss, blindiness | Loss of vision |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Gastrointestinal | firm and irregular liver, tender liver, pulsatile liver | Liver palpation abnormalities |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Gastrointestinal, Laboratory | LFTs, aminotransferases, AST, ALP, ALT, GGT, LDH | Liver Function Tests |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Dermatology, Musculoskeletal | Ischaemic ulcer, malignant, Neuropathic | Leg ulcers |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Gastrointestinal | Large bowel obstruction DDX | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis | casts, microscopy, culture | Laboratory urinalysis |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Renal | renal mass, enlarged kidney | Kidney mass |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology, Radiology | Intracranial Structures: Contrast Enhancement | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology, Radiology | Intracranial calcification | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Respiratory, Radiology, Investigation | Chest X-ray DDX, fine reticular pattern | Increased Interstitial Markings CXR DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Laboratory, Metabolic | Hypomagnesemia, magnesium, Mg2+ | Hypomagnesaemia |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Endocrine, Metabolic | hypoglycaemia | Hypoglyecemia |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Laboratory, Metabolic | Hypochloremia | Hypochloraemia |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Laboratory, Metabolic | hypocalcemia, calcium, ca2+, | Hypocalcaemia DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Laboratory, Metabolic | Hypermagnesemia, magnesium, Mg2+ | Hypermagnesaemia |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Metabolic | hyperkalemia, potassium, K+ | Hyperkalaemia DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Laboratory, Metabolic | Hyperchloremia | Hyperchloraemia |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Laboratory, Metabolic | hypercalemia, calcium, ca2+, | Hypercalcaemia DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Metabolic | hyperammonemia | Hyperammonemia |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | Horner syndrome | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Respiratory | idiopathic interstitial pneumonia, DIP, NIP, UIP, AIP, NSIP | Honeycomb lung DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Dermatology, Endocrinology | abnormal hair growth | Hirsutism |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Respiratory, Radiology | Hilar enlargement on CXR | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Respiratory, Radiology | hilum, lymph, node, gland, CXR | Hilar Adenopathy |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Respiratory | intubated, ventilated | High airway pressures |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Hematology, Gastrointestinal | Hepatosplenomegaly | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Gastrointestinal | liver, enlarged, enlargement | Hepatomegaly |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Endocrine | gynecomastia | Gynaecomastia DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Gastrointestinal | hernia, swelling, mass | Groin lump |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Genitourinary | Genital ulcers | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Gastrointestinal, Radiology | RUQ, right upper quadrant gas, pneumoperitoneum, mimics, AXR | Gas on abdominal x-ray DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology, Pediatrics | Werdnig-Hoffman, Down syndrome, infantile spinomuscular atrophy (SMA) | Floppy infant |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Ophthalmology | mydriasis, blown pupil | Fixed dilated pupil |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | DDX, recurrent, hemifacial spasm, Facial myokymia | Facial twitches |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Ophthalmology | blunt, penetrating | Eye trauma |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Ophthalmology | proptosis | Exophthalmos |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | Sydenham, Huntington, chorea | Dystonia |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Gastrointestinal | Dysphagia DDx | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis | bedside, protein, blood, glucose, leukocyte esterase, nitrites, ketones, bilirubin, urobilinogen, nitrites, specific gravity | Dipstick urinalysis |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Endocrine | thyroid, enlarged, enlargement | Diffuse goitre |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Metabolic, Investigation | Diabetes Insipidus DDx | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | Dementia | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Laboratory | C-reactive protein | CRP DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Laboratory, Renal | Creatinine | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | palsy, 3, 4, 6, 11, 12, multiple | Cranial nerve lesions |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Cardiology, Respiratory, Gastrointestinal, Other | Clubbing | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | Sydenham, Huntington, chorea | Chorea DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Cardiology | Chest pain DDx | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | cerebellum, midline, unilateral, bilateral, MVPS | Cerebellar disease DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | extrapontine myelinolysis, osmotic demyelination syndrome | Central Pontine Myelinolysis |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Cardiology | acute heart failure syndrome, low output, high output | Cardiac failure DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | Bulbar and pseudobulbar palsy | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Respiratory | Bronchiectasis DDx | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Respiratory | Bronchial breath sounds | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Cardiology | narrow complex, wide complex, irregular, regular | Bradycardia DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Ophthalmology | blinking, facial tics | Blepharospasm |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Gastrointestinal, Laboratory | conjugated, unconjugated | Bilirubin and jaundice |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Immunology | Autoimmune associated diseases | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Cardiology | Atrial Fibrillation DDx | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Respiratory | lung collapse, collapsed lung | Atelectasis |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | Friedreich ataxia, Guillain-Barr̩ syndrome, incoordination | Ataxia DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology, Gastrointestinal | DDx, hepatic flap | Asterixis |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Rheumatology, Orthopedics, Musculoskeletal | Arthritis | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Neurology | Anosmia | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Hematology, Laboratory | anaemia, hypochromic, normochromic, normocytic, macrocytic, microcytic, iron studies | Anemia Mind Map |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Immunology | severe allergic reaction | Anaphylaxis DDx |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Investigation, Laboratory, Metabolic | approach, osmolar gap | Acid-Base disorders |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Dermatology, Oncology, Endocrine | Acanthosis nigricans | |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Gastrointestinal | acute abdomen, tenderness, rigidity | Abdominal pain |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Gastrointestinal | swelling | Abdominal mass |
Differential diagnosis | Differential diagnosis, Gastrointestinal | swelling | Abdominal distension |
Dermatology | Dermatology | MIDI, lyell syndrome, Stevens Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis | SJS and TEN |
Dermatology | Dermatology | PTSD-D | Serious generalised skin disorders |
Dermatology | Dermatology | Pupura fulminans | |
Decision making | Decision making | Precautionary Principle and the Kehoe Principle | |
Decision making | Decision making | Critical Thinking | |
Critically Ill | Critically Ill | FAST HUGS IN BED Please! | |
Crisis | Crisis | Crisis, Crewmanship and CRM | |
Conference | Conferences and Presentations | social media and the internet: the future of medical education, toxicological myths and half-truths | CICM ASM 2013 |
Communication | Communication | Best Case, Worst Case | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | WRAP decision making approach | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Treatment Decisions when patients lack competence | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Tissue Donation | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Speaking Up | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Reading to learn | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance | active cycle of breathing technique | Physiotherapy in ICU |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Physical restraint | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | CCI | Persistent and Chronic Critical Illness |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Palliative Care | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Observations Compatible and Incompatible with Brain Death | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Environmental | Medication Error | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Medical Management of Potential Donors | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Management of the Organ Donation Patient, organ donor | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Learning from Failure | |
Clinical governance | Clinical governance | patient care round | ICU Ward Rounds |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Fundamental Attribution Error | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Environmental | Fire In ICU | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Evidence-Based Medicine | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | GRIEV_ING, SUPPORT, VALUE | End-of-Life Care Family Meeting |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Elaboration and Elaborative Interrogation | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | CHUMP | Contraindications to Solid Organ Donation |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Collective Competence | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Cognitive Rigidity | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Cognitive load theory | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | sedation, acute behavioural emergency, violence, agitation | Chemical restraint |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | GRIEV_ING, PLIIE, | Breaking Bad News to Relatives |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Brain Death | |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | Eleothanasia | Avoiding Nosocomial Dysthanasia |
Clinical governance | Clinical Governance, Ethics and End of Life | ANZICS Statement on Death and Organ Donation | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Vasoplegia post-cardiopulmonary bypass | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | twiddler, failure to capture, sense, pacemaker-mediated tachycardia, sensor indiced tachycardia | Temporary pacemaker troubleshooting |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Post-pericardiotomy syndrome | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Pneumonectomy | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Phrenic nerve palsy post-cardiac surgery | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Off pump versus on pump CABG | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Esophageal | Oesophageal perforation |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery, Respiratory | Lung Volume Reduction Surgery | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Indications for adult cardiac surgery | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | ICU post-cardiac surgery | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Hypoxaemia post-cardiac surgery | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Hypothermia post-cardiac surgery | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Hypotension post-cardiac surgery | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Hypertension post-cardiac surgery | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Haemorrhage post-cardiac surgery | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Factors determining LIMA flow | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | CABG | Coronary Artery Bypass Graft |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery, Respiratory | Pseudochylothorax | Chylothorax |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Cardiothoracic surgery literature summaries | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Cardiopulmonary bypass | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Cardiac arrest management post-cardiac surgery | |
Cardiothoracics | Cardiothoracic surgery | Acute aortic dissection | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Wide Complex Tachycardia | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Wellens Syndrome | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | VT monomorphic, polymorphic | Ventricular Tachycardia |
Cardiology | Cardiology | VF | Ventricular Fibrillation |
Cardiology | Cardiology | VGE, Gas or air, arterial gas embolism, venous gas embolism | Vascular gas embolism |
Cardiology | Cardiology, Investigations | high, raised, increased, troponinaemia, troponitis | Troponin in Critical Illness |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Syncope | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | STEMI Management | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Severe Heart Failure Management | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | RVI, STEMI, infarction MI | Right ventricular infarction |
Category | CCC Topic | ||
Cardiology | Cardiology | RVF | Right Ventricular Failure |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Pulmonary Hypertension | |
Cardiology | Cardiology, Respiratory | Pulmonary Embolus versus Right Ventricular Infarction | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Preload | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Pericarditis | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Pericardial disease | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Percutaneous Valve Replacement Literature Summaries | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | PCI | Percutaneous Coronary Intervention |
Cardiology | Cardiology | PCO2 gap, cvaCO2gap | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Advantages and Disadvantages, AAI, VVI, DDD, | Pacing Modes |
Cardiology | Cardiology | AAI, VVI, DDD, | Pacemakers |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Overdrive Pacing | |
Cardiology | Cardiology, Cardiothoracic surgery | Delayed Sternal Closure | Open Chest Management |
Cardiology | Cardiology | nSTEMI, UPA, unstable angina, non ST elevation acute coronary syndromes | NSTEACS Management |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Narrow Complex Tachycardia | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Myocarditis | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Myocardial stunning | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Murmurs and Valve Lesions | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Lown-Ganong-Levine Syndrome | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Long QT Syndrome | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | LVOTO | Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Junctional Ectopic Tachycardia | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Implantable Cardiac Defibrilators | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | NHYA, | Heart Transplant Patient |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Heart Failure Literature Summaries | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Heart Block and Conduction abnormalities | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | myxomatous mitral valve disease, paravalvular dehiscence, aortic, mitral, pulmonary, tricuspid, stenosis, regurgitation | Emergent Valve Disorders |
Cardiology | Cardiology, EM | Refractory, Ventricular Fibrillation, Ventricular Tachycardia (VF/VT) | Electrical Storm |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Differential Diagnosis of ECG Abnormalities | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Anrep effect, Bowditch effect | Contractility |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Circulation Assessment | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Cement Implantation Syndrome | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Causes of Acute Pulmonary Hypertension | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Cardioversion in ICU | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Frank starling law | Cardiovascular Physiology Overview |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Cardiovascular Performance Assessment | |
Category | CCC Topic | ||
Cardiology | Cardiology | Cardiogenic Shock Literature Summaries | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Cardiac Output | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | aortic stenosis, mitral stenosis, tricuspid regurgitation, ASD, PDA | Cardiac Lesions and Severe Clinical Signs |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Cardiac Biomarkers | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Cardiac Arrest Literature Summaries | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | AMI, prevention, myocardial infarction, B blocker | Beta Blockers to Prevent Perioperative MI |
Cardiology | Cardiology | CHA2DS2-VASc | Atrial Fibrillation |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Arrhythmias Literature Summaries | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Arrhythmogenesis, vaughan-williams classification, reentrancy, automaticity, | Arrhythmias |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Arial Natriuretic Peptide | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | AR | Aortic Regurgitation |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation of Patients Undergoing non-cardiac surgery | AHA/ACC Guidelines (2007) |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Afterload | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | Acute Coronary Syndromes Literature Summaries | |
Cardiology | Cardiology | CRUSADE Score, ACS | Acute Coronary Syndromes |
Anatomy | Anatomy | Third Cranial Nerve Lesions | |
Anatomy | Anatomy | Femoral Vein Anatomy | |
Anatomy | Anatomy | Dave Pilcher, lung anatomy, bronchoscope, bronchii, bronchioles | Bronchoscopic Anatomy |
Airway | Airway | Video laryngoscopy versus direct laryngoscopy | |
Airway | Airway | Glidescope | Video laryngoscopy |
Airway | Airway | pediatric | Upper Airway Obstruction in a Child |
Airway | Airway | Unplanned extubation, Self-extubation | Unplanned extubation |
Airway | Airway | Trismus, Restricted Mouth Opening | Trismus and Restricted Mouth Opening |
Airway | Airway | Tracheostomy Summary page | |
Airway | Airway | Tracheostomy Literature Summaries | |
Airway | Airway | Tracheostomy Insertion Techniques | |
Airway | Airway | Tracheostomy Complications | |
Airway | Airway | Tracheostomy advantages and disadvantages | |
Airway | Airway, ENT, Respiratory | Tracheo-esophageal fistula, TOF, oesophageal | Tracheo-esophageal fistula |
Airway | Airway | Timing of Tracheostomy | |
Airway | Airway | Three Axis Alignment versus Two Curve Theory | |
Airway | Airway | Swallowing | |
Airway | Airway | Surgical cricothyroidotomy | |
Airway | Airway | Stridor | |
Airway | Airway | Suction Assisted Laryngoscopy Airway Decontamination | SALAD |
Airway | Airway | Respiratory distress in Tracheostomy Patient | |
Airway | Airway | O2 MARBLES, SOAPME | Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI) |
Airway | Airway | RSA, pharmacologically assisted laryngeal mask insertion | Rapid sequence airway and PALM |
Airway | Airway | Rapid Sequence Intubation | Pretreatment drugs for RSI |
Airway | Airway, Retrieval | Rapid Sequence Intubation | Prehospital RSI |
Airway | Airway | Pre-oxygenation | |
Airway | Airway | Post-intubation hypoxia | |
Airway | Airway | Post-intubation care | |
Airway | Airway | Post-extubation stridor | |
Airway | Airway | emergency intubation, life threatening, VAPOURS | Peri-intubation life threats |
Airway | Airway | Percutaneous versus Surgical Tracheostomy | |
Airway | Airway | Percutaneous Tracheostomy | |
Airway | Airway | Paralytics for Intubation of the Critically ill | |
Airway | Airway, Paediatrics | Paediatric Airway | |
Airway | Airway | Nasal intubation | |
Airway | Airway | Laryngospasm | |
Airway | Airway | Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) | |
Airway | Airway | Intubation, Hypotension and Shock, rapid sequence intubation (RSI) | Intubation, Hypotension and Shock |
Airway | Airway | GI haemorrhage | Intubation of the GI bleeder |
Airway | Airway, Gastrointestinal | GI haemorrhage | Intubation in Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage |
Airway | Airway | Intubating LMA, ILMA, Fastrach | Intubating LMA |
Airway | Airway | ETT Stylet | |
Airway | Airway, Ventilation | Endotracheal tube cuff leak | |
Airway | Airway | Epiglottoscopy, macintosh | Direct Laryngoscopy |
Airway | Airway | distortion, disproportion, dysmobility, dentition, Vortex approach | Difficult airway algorithms |
Airway | Airway | Delayed Sequence intubation | |
Airway | Airway | Cuff Leak Test, post-extubation stridor | Cuff Leak Test |
Airway | Airway | Cricoid pressure | |
Airway | Airway, ENT | Coroner's Clot, nasopharyngeal, epistaxis, hemorrhage, haemorrhage | Coroner's Clot |
Airway | Airway | Can't Intubate, Can't Ventilate | |
Airway | Airway | Can't Intubate | |
Airway | Airway | Bougie | |
Airway | Airway | Blind digital intubation | |
Airway | Airway | Bleeding tracheostomy | |
Airway | Airway | Bimanual laryngoscopy | |
Airway | Airway | Awake intubation | |
Airway | Airway | Assessment of Swallow in a Tracheostomy Patient | |
Airway | Airway | Apnoeic oxygenation | |
Airway | Airway | Angioedema | |
Airway | Airway | Anatomy for Tracheostomy | |
Airway | Airway | Airway Obstruction | |
Airway | Airway, Trauma | Airway Management in Major Trauma | |
Airway | Airway | Airway Literature Summaries | |
Airway | Airway | Airway and Neck Trauma, blunt, penetrating | Airway in Neck Trauma |
Airway | Airway | Airway in Maxillofacial Trauma | |
Airway | Airway | Airway Assessment | |
Airway | Airway, Trauma | Airway and Cervical Spine Injury | |
Airway | Airway | ETT | Adverse Effects of Endotracheal Intubation |
Administration | Administration, Education | Trainees with Difficulties | |
Administration | Administration | RAMESH NAGAPPAN | Rapid Response System (RRS) |
Administration | Administration | New Equipment Purchasing | |
Administration | Adminstration | Managing the Emergency Department, ED | |
Administration | Administration | ICU Staffing, open ICU, Closed ICU | ICU Staffing |
Administration | Administration, Infectious diseases | ICU Response to a Pandemic, influenza, SARS, MERS, coronavirus | ICU Response to a Pandemic |
Administration | Adminstration | ICU Outreach, critical care outreach teams (CCOT), ICU liaison, intensive care | ICU Outreach |
Administration | Administration | ICU Design and Staffing | |
Administration | Administration, Ethics, Medicolegal | Consent and Competence in Children | |
Administration | Administration | Clinical Governance | |
Administration | Administration | ARDS | Changes in ICU mortality |
Administration | Adminstration | Change leadership, management, John Kotter | Change leadership |
Administration | Administration, Professional issues | Burnout | |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | UAG | Urinary Anion Gap |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | SID, Stewart | Strong Ion Difference |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | dichloroacetate, carbicarb, Urinary alkalinisation, NaHCO3 | Sodium Bicarbonate Use |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base, Metabolic, Endocrine | DKA, Diabetic Ketoacidosis, ketoacids, NaHCO3 | Sodium Bicarbonate and DKA |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | Respiratory Compensation in Metabolic Disorders | |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | Respiratory Alkalosis | |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | Respiratory Acidosis | |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base, Renal | Renal Tubular Acidosis, Uraemic acidosis, renal, acid-base, RTA | Renal Tubular Acidosis and Uraemic Acidosis |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | Pyroglutamic Acidosis | |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | Normal Anion Gap Metabolic Acidosis, HARDUP, CAGE, USEDCRAP | NAGMA |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | HAGMA | Metformin-related Lactic Acidosis |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | Metabolic Alkalosis Evaluation | |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | Metabolic alkalosis | |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | Metabolic Alkalosis | |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | Metabolic acidaemia, acidemia, HAGMA, NAGMA | Metabolic Acidosis Evaluation |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | Metabolic acidosis | |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | Metabolic Acidosis | |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | Cohen & Woods classification | Lactic Acidosis Evaluation |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base, Investigations | hyperlactaemia, hyperlactemia, LUKE, TIPS, FAILURE, Cohen & Woods | Lactate and Lactic Acidosis |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | Starvation ketosis, Alcoholic ketoacidosis, Diabetic ketoacidosis, DKA, | Ketoacidosis |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | Delta Ratio | |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | D-Lactic acidosis | |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | BE, SBE | Base Excess vs Standard Base Excess |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | Anion gap | |
Acid-Base | Acid-Base | Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, resus, Arterial blood gas | ABG changes in Cardiac Arrest |
The CCC was created, and is maintained, by Chris Nickson and originated from the FCICM exam study notes created by Jeremy Fernando in 2011. All of these pages have been updated, modified and added to since by a number of contributors (see below). As such will be particularly useful to those studying for the CICM Fellowship exam (though there are topics outside the scope of the exam as well). Increasingly, entries relevant to the FACEM exam are also being added.
NOTE: Pages are continually added under these topic headings, to find a current list of pages for each topic just search for the topic heading in the searchable index table.
We have defined “critical care medicine” as the triad of 1) resuscitation, 2) emergency care for life-threatening conditions, and 3) intensive care; including all components of the emergency and critical care medicine delivery system, prehospital and hospital.
Peter Safar, 1974
References and resources
Numerous resources and references, in addition to those listed at the end of each page, were particularly useful in creating the compendium.
LITFL
- ICU Mind Maps by Paul Young, litfl.com
- ECG Library by Buttner R, Burns E, Larkin J, Nickson C, Cadogan M
- CICM Fellowship Overview
FOAM and web-based resources
- CriticalCareReviews.com (curated articles from the critical care literature, including an annual free-to-access book critically appraising major trials)
- Medsafe (New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority)
- The Bottom Line (compendium of critical appraisals of the ICU research literature)
- David Tripp’s magnum opus of Intensive Care Medicine FCICM study notes (pdf last updated December 2014; David Tripp’s website is here)
Textbooks
- Acute Pain Management: Scientific Evidence (3e) PDF Macintyre PE, Schug SA, Scott DA, Visser EJ, Walker SM; Working Group of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and Faculty of Pain Medicine. Melbourne, 2010.
- Atlas of Emergency Radiology Block, Jordanov, Stack. 2013
- Australian animal toxins: the creatures, their toxins and care of the poisoned patient (2e) Sutherland SK, Tibballs J. Oxford University Press 2001.
- Clinical Examination: A Systematic Guide to Physical Diagnosis (7e) Talley NJ, O’Connor S. 2013.
- Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine (6e) Roberts JR, Hedges JR. Saunders 2013.
- Data Interpretation in Critical Care Medicine (5e) Venkatesh B, Morgan TJ, Joyce C, Townsend S. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2012.
- Diagnostic Imaging in Critical Care – A problem based approach Joyce, C, Saad, N, Kruger, P, Foot, C, Blackwell, N. Elsevier, Churchill Livingstone, Australia, 2010
- ECG in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care. Chan T, Brady W, Harrigan R, Ornato J, Rosen P. Mosby, 2004.
- Emergency Radiology Schwartz DT, Reisdorff EJ. McGraw-Hill 2000.
- Examination Intensive Care Medicine (2e), Foote C, Steel L, Vidhani K, Lister B, MacPartlin M, Blackwell N. Elsevier 2011.
- Eye Emergency Manual 2e PDF NSW Statewide Opthalmology Service.
- Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies (9e) Flomenbaum N, et al. McGraw-Hill 2010.
- MD Consult online resource
- Neurological differential diagnosis: a prioritized approach Bhidayasiri R, Waters MF, Giza CC. Blackwell Publishing 2005.
- Neurological differential diagnosis (2e) Patten J. Springer-Verlag 2004.
- Oh’s Intensive Care Manual (7e) Bersten AD, Soni N. 2013.
- Paediatric Handbook (8th edition) Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne 2010
- Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine. Croskerry P, Cosby KS, Schenkel SM, Wears RL. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009.
- Plum and Posner’s Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma (4e) Posner JB, et al. Oxford university Press 2007.
- Poisoning and Drug Overdose (6e) Olsen, K. Lange/ McGraw-Hill 2006.
- Principles and Practice of Mechanical Ventilation (3e) Tobin M. McGraw-Hill, 2012
- RCH Clinical Practice Guidelines Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne
- Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice (8e) Marx JA, Hockberger R, Walls RM. Mosby 2013.
- Textbook of Critical Care (6e). Vincent J-L, Abraham E, Kchanek P, Moor FA, Fink MA.Elsevier, 2013.
- The Wills Eye Manual: Office and Emergency Room Diagnosis and Treatment of Eye Disease Ehlers JP, Shah CP, Fenton GL, and Hoskins EN. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2012.
- Therapeutic Guidelines (Australia) [subscription required]
- Toxicology Handbook (2e) Murray L, Daly FFS, Little M, and Cadogan M. Elsevier Australia 2011.
- Trauma: A Comprehensive Emergency Medicine Approach Legome E, Shockley LW. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Wilderness Medicine (6e) Auerbach P, Mosby Elsevier 2011
- Wounds and Lacerations: Emergency Care and Closure (4e) Trott AT. Mosby, 2012.
Contributors to the CCC
- Alex Psirides FCICM
- Cameron Knott FCICM
- Chris Nickson FACEM FCICM
- Chris Poynter FANZCA FCICM
- David Tripp FRACP FCICM
- Esti Blazquez FANZCA FCICM
- James Hayes FACEM
- Jeremy Fernando FANZCA FCICM
- Luke Collett
- Maurice Le Guen FCICM
- Mike Cadogan FACEM FFSEM
- Oliver Flower FCICM
- Paul Davies FANZCA
- Paul Young FCICM
- Robert Buttner
- Sarah Yong FCICM
- Sabine Pecher FCICM
Critical Care
Compendium