A 43-year-old woman is transferred to your Intensive Care Unit from a regional hospital following a motor vehicle crash. She is in haemorrhagic shock secondary to abdominal and pelvic trauma and received 3L crystalloid and 8 units O Rh(D) negative blood prior to arrival in your hospital.
A 74-year-old man with known ischaemic heart disease was admitted to hospital for treatment of worsening heart failure (day 1)
Outline methods for diagnosing CMV infection in the critically ill immunocompetent patient.
Outline your approach to the assessment of nutritional status in a critically ill patient, including the use of appropriate laboratory tests.
Questions 1.1 Briefly outline the rationale for the use of hypertonic saline in: Hyponatremia Traumatic brain injury 1.2 List the possible complications of hypertonic saline administration. Answers
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Diarrhoea: common in ICU; pathophysiology: secretory, motor, exudative, osmotic
Cooling mattress: mattress used for therapeutic active cooling
7.1. The following image is of the blood sample tubes into which a specimen of blood from a critically ill patient had been drawn by the phlebotomist. (a) What does this image show? (b) List three (3) causes for this…
Critically evaluate the role of the following investigations in the critically ill patient: Serum ammonia; B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP)
Questions 7.1 A 65-year-old male has been brought into the Emergency Department after being found unconscious at home. He has a heart rate of 87 beats/min, a blood pressure of 96/59 mmHg, and temperature of 31.2oC. Below is his biochemical profile…