ICU Mind Maps
The ICU Mind Maps covering the FCICM Part 2 Exam curriculum are in PDF format. They were created by Dr. Paul Young in preparing for the JFICM Fellowship exam in 2008. They are provided free and may be redistributed for educational purposes.
ICU Mind Maps
Cardiovascular disease
- Acute Coronary Syndromes
- Acute Myocardial Infarction – Complications
- Acute Pulmonary Oedema
- Acute Right Ventricular Failure
- Air Embolism
- Aortic Dissection
- Blood Supply of the Heart
- Cardiac Physiology
- Cardiogenic Pulmonary Oedema
- Conduction Disturbances
- Deep Vein Thrombosis
- Endocarditis
- Fat Embolism
- Heart Transplant
- Indications for Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Levosimendin
- Mechanisms of Arrhythmia
- Myocarditits
- Pericarditis
- Peripheral Arterial Disease Emergencies
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Shock
- Sudden Cardiac Death
- Supraventicular Arrhythmias
- Treatment of Severe Heart Failure
- Troponin in Critical Illness
- Valvular Disease Emergencies
- Wide Complex Arrhythmias
- Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
Dermatology
Equipment and Procedures
Respiratory Equipment and Procedures
- Abnormal ventilator waveforms
- Adjunctive Respiratory Therapies
- Adjunctive Therapies for Oxygen
- Bag-Mask Ventilation
- Breathing circuits
- Bronchoscopy
- Endotracheal Tube
- Failed Airway Techniques
- Haemodynamic Effects of Ventilation
- High Frequency Jet Ventilation
- Humidification (Inhalational)
- Hyperbaric Oxygen
- Intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway
- Laryngeal Mask airway
- Laryngoscopes
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Oropharyngeal and Nasopharyngeal Airways
- Other Airway Devices
- Patient-Ventilator Interaction
- Percutaneous Tracheostomy
- Pleural Drainage
Other Equipment and Procedures
- Central Venous Catheterisation
- Defibrillation
- Epidurals
- Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation
- Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump
- Invasive Arterial Blood Pressure Monitoring
- Minnesota and Sengstaken-Blackmore Tubes
- Oesophageal Balloon Tamponade
- Overdrive Pacing
- Pacemakers – Pacing Wire Insertion
- Pacemakers – Pacing Modes
- Pacemakers – Temporary Epicardial Pacing
- Pacemakers – Troubleshooting
- Peripheral Venous Cannulae
- Physiotherapy
- Pressure Transduction Devices
- Pulmonary Artery Catheter
- Renal Replacement Therapy
- Ventricular Assist Devices
Gastrointestinal
- Ascites
- Cholecystitis
- Diarrhoea in Critical Illness
- Fulminant Hepatic Failure
- Hepatopulmonary Syndrome
- Ileus
- Liver Transplant
- Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
- Mesenteric Ischaemia
- Portal Hypertension
- Porto-Pulmonary Hypertension
- Pseudomembranous Colitis
- Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP)
- Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Haematology, Oncology and Immunology
- Anaemia
- Anaphylaxis
- Angioedema
- Antiphospholipid Syndrome
- Blood Transfusion Therapy
- Bone Marrow Transplant – Cardiac
- Bone Marrow Transplant – Complications
- Bone Marrow Transplant – Gastrointestinal
- Bone Marrow Transplant – Infections
- Bone Marrow Transplant – Neurological
- Bone Marrow Transplant – Renal
- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy (DIC)
- Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia (HITS)
- Haematological Malignancies
- Organ Toxicity of Chemotherapy
- The Immunosuppressed Patient
- The Neutropaenic Patient
- Transfusion-Related Acute Lung injury (TRALI)
- Transfusion Reactions
- Thrombocytopaenic-Thrombotic Purpura (TTP)
- Tumour Lysis Syndrome
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
Antimicrobials
- Antimicrobial Summary I
- Antimicrobial Summary II
- Aminoglycosides
- Antifungals
- Antimicrobial Allergy
- Antivirals
- Beta-Lactams in Critical Care
- Fluoroquinolones
- Glycopeptides
- Linezolid
- Macrolides
- Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance
- Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance
Infectious Diseases
- Aetiology of Specific infections
- Bacteraemia – Empiric Therapy
- Bacterial Meninigtis
- Bacterial Meningitis – Directed Therapy
- Botulism
- Brain Abscess
- Bone and Joint infections
- Candidiasis, Systemic
- Causes of Fever in ICU
- Central Nervous System Viral Infection
- Common Bacteria in ICU
- Corticosteroids in Sepsis
- C-Reactive Protein (CRP)
- Fungal Infections
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- Infectious gastroenteritis – bacterial
- Infectious gastroenteritis – protozoal
- Influenza
- Intra-abdominal Infections
- Ludwig Angina
- Malaria
- Multiresistant bacteria
- Necrotizing Fasciitis
- Needlestick Injuries
- Nosocomial Infections
- Other Specific Infections
- Prevention of CVC Infections
- Procalcitonin
- Selective Digestive Decontamination
- Sepsis – Coagulation
- Sepsis – Diagnosis
- Sepsis – Inflammation
- Sepsis – Pathophysiology
- Sepsis – Surviving Sepsis Guidelines 2000
- Sepsis – Treatment
- Skin and Soft Tissue Infection
- Toxic Shock Syndrome
Specific micro-organisms
Investigations and Monitoring
Imaging
- CT Abdomen
- CT Chest
- Neuroimaging
- Radiograph: Abdominal
- Radiograph: Chest
- Radiograph: Chest – Abnormalities
- Radiograph: Pelvis
- Ultrasonography – Abdomen
Laboratory tests
- Arterial Blood Gas
- Autoimmune Markers
- Biochemical Abnormalities in ICU Patients
- Biochemical Abnormalities – Differential Diagnosis
- Cerebrospinal Fluid
- Coagulation tests
- Haematology Investigations
- Important “Gaps”
- Joint Fluid
- Pleural Fluid
Monitoring and Other Investigations
- Capnography
- Cardiac Output Monitoring
- Central Venous Pressure (CVP) Monitoring
- Electrocardiograph (ECG) Abnormalities
- Electroencephalography (EEG)
- Haemodynamic Monitoring I
- Haemodynamic Monitoring II
- Intracranial Pressure (ICP) Monitoring
- Pulse Oximetry
- Respiratory Function Tests
- Temperature Measurement
- Urinalysis
Metabolism and Endocrinology
- Acidosis in Renal Disease
- Additional Indices in Analysis
- Adrenal Insufficiency in Sepsis
- Approach to ABG Analysis
- Bicarbonate – Use in Critical Illness
- Calcium disorders
- Conn’s Syndrome
- Cushing Syndrome
- Diabetes Insipidus
- Hormonal Responses to Critical Illness
- Hyperkalemia – Treatment
- Hypernatraemia
- Hyperphosphataemia
- Hyperosmotic Hyperglycemic Syndrome (HHS) and Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) – Clinical Features
- Hyperosmotic Hyperglycemic Syndrome (HHS) and Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) – Treatment
- Hypoglycaemia
- Hypokalaemia
- Hyponatraemia
- Hypophosphataemia
- Hypopituitarism
- Ketoacidosis
- Lactic Acidosis
- Metabolic Acidosis
- Metabolic Alkalosis
- Metabolic Responses to Critical Illness
- Myxoedema Coma – Clinical Features and Diagnosis
- Myxoedema Coma – Treatment
- Normal Anion-Gap Metabolic Acidosis (NAGMA)
- Obesity
- Phaeochromocytoma
- Respiratory Acidosis
- Respiratory Alkalosis
- Syndrome of Inappropriate Anti-Diuretic Hormone (SIADH)
- Thyroid Storm – Clinical Features
- Thyroid Storm – Treatment
Neurology and Psychiatry
- Bacterial Meninigtis
- Bacterial Meningitis – Directed Therapy
- Botulism
- Brain Abscess
- Brain Death
- Cerebral Neoplasm
- Cerebral Oedema
- Coma
- Epidural Abscess
- Examintion of the Comatose Patient
- Guillain-Barre Syndrome
- Hypoxic Brain Injury
- ICU-Acquired Weakness
- Intracerebral Haemorrhage
- Intracranial Hypertension – Management
- Ischaemic Stroke
- Lacunar Syndromes
- Motor Neuron Disease
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Neurocritical Care
- Neuroimaging
- Periodic Paralysis
- Respiratory Failure – Neuromuscular causes
- Reversible Posterior Leukoencephalopathy
- Seizures in the Critically Ill
- Spinal Injury
- Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
- Suicide
- Tetanus
- Traumatic Brain Injury – Management
- Traumatic Brain Injury – Mechanisms
- Traumatic Brain Injury – Prognosis
- Venous Sinus Thrombosis
- Viral Infections of the Central Nervous System
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Airway Problems in Pregnancy
- Amniotic Fluid Embolism
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Pregnancy
- Ectopic Pregnancy
- Hypertensive Emergencies in Pregnancy
- Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome
- Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
- Physiology of Pregnancy
- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
- Respiratory Failure in Pregnancy
- Pre-existing Disease in Pregnancy
- Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy
- Septic Shock in Pregnancy
Respiratory
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
- Acute Severe Asthma
- Airway Obstruction
- Aspiration Syndromes
- Community-Acquired Pneumonia
- COPD
- Haemoptysis
- Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
- Lung Transplant
- Non-Cardiogenic Pulmonary Oedema
- Pleural Disease
- Pneumonia in the Immunocompromised
- Pulmonary Mechanics
- Respiratory Physiology
- Tuberculosis
- Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Statistics and Evidence
Toxicology
- Alcoholic Ketoacidosis p
- Alcohol Withdrawal
- Antidepressants, Other
- Antidotes
- Approach to the Poisoned Patient
- Calcium Channel Overdose
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
- Digoxin
- Envenomation
- Ethanol and Toxic Alcohol Poisoning
- Hyperthermia
- Hypothermia
- Lithium Overdose
- Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity
- Malignant Hyperthermia
- NSAIDs
- Opioids
- Organophosphates
- Paracetamol Overdose
- Sedative-Hypnotics
- Specific Overdoses I
- Specific Overdoses II
- Specific Problems in the Poisoned Patient
- Theophylline and Other Methylxanthines
- Tricyclic Antidepressants
Trauma
- Abdominal Trauma – Assessment
- Abdominal Trauma – ICU Management
- Assessment Principles in Trauma
- Emergency Thoracotomy
- Glasgow Coma Scale
- Head Injury
- Laryngeal and Tracheal Injury
- Spinal Injury
- Thoracic Trauma
- Traumatic Brain Injury – Management
- Traumatic Brain Injury – Mechanisms
- Traumatic Brain Injury – Prognosis
Sources
The Mind Maps were created using information from the following resources relevant to the (then) JFICM Fellowship Exam:
- Parsons PE. Wiener-Kronish JP. Critical Care Secrets. Mosby
- Berston AD, Handy J. Oh’s Intensive Care Manual. Elsevier
- Vincent JL, Abraham A, Kochanek P, Moore FA, Fink MP. Textbook of Critical Care. Elsevier
- Irwin RS, Rippe JM. Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine. LWWV
- Venkatesh B, Morgan TJ, Joyce CJ. Data Interpretation in Critical Care Medicine. Butterworth-Heinemann
- Blackwell N, Foot C, Thomas C. Examination Intensive Care & Anaesthesia. Churchill Livingstone
- Murray et al. Toxicology Handbook. Churchill Livingstone
Further explanation of information contained in the ICU Mind Maps can be found in these texts. Information contained in the ICU Mind Maps should be verified by authoritative and evidence-based sources and cannot be guaranteed to be error-free.
Chris is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at The Alfred ICU, where he is Deputy Director (Education). He is a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, the Lead for the Clinician Educator Incubator programme, and a CICM First Part Examiner.
He is an internationally recognised Clinician Educator with a passion for helping clinicians learn and for improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives. He was one of the founders of the FOAM movement (Free Open-Access Medical education) has been recognised for his contributions to education with awards from ANZICS, ANZAHPE, and ACEM.
His one great achievement is being the father of three amazing children.
On Bluesky, he is @precordialthump.bsky.social and on the site that Elon has screwed up, he is @precordialthump.
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