This concise, yet comprehensive review is the perfect tool to prepare for in-service or licensing exams, for re-certification, or for use as a clinical refresher. Its highly efficient format conveniently condenses and simplifies the most important content, for maximum yield and comprehension-an especially important benefit for facilitating bedside diagnosis in critical care medicine.

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• Compact review of key board-type material for specialization in critical care medicine
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• Standardized, bulleted format emphasizes key points of epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, differential diagnosis, diagnosis, procedures and treatment, prognosis, plus references
• Highlights and summarizes key concepts to assure quick absorption of the material and reinforce your understanding of even the most difficult topics
• Logical chapter organization, arranged by system (cardiology, pulmonary system...) and illness (trauma, burns, poisoning…) to help focus your study and provide quick access to subjects

Gregory A. Schmidt, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Pritzker School of Medicine Dr. Hall is a recognized leader in the discipline and runs one of the top departments in the country. Both Drs. Hall and Schmidt are active presenters at national meetings and known internationally through their software company MedSym.

2 Airway Management

3 Resuscitation

4 Fluid Therapy

5 Pain Management

6 Sedation Management in the ICU

7 Neuromuscular Blockade

8 Monitoring the Cardiovascular System

9 Monitoring the Respiratory System

10 Assessment of Severity of Illness

11 Pulmonary Artery Catheter

12 Nutrition in the Critically Ill

13 An Approach to Shock

14 Ventricular Dysfunction in Critical Illness

15 Rhythm Disturbances in the ICU

16 Noninvasive Assessment of Cardiac Output

17 Interpretation of Hemodynamic Waveforms

18 Myocardial Ischemia

19 Echocardiography in the Critically Ill Patient

20 Acute Right Heart Syndromes

21 Pulmonary Embolism: Thrombus, Fat, Air, and Amniotic Fluid

22 Pericardial Disease

23 Cardiovascular Diseases

24 Aortic Dissection

25 Mechanical Circulatory Assist Devices

26 Hypertensive Encephalopathy and Hypertensive

Emergencies27 Pathophysiology of Acute Respiratory Faillure

28 Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation

29 Common Modes of Mechanical Ventilation

30 Managing the Ventilated Patient

31 Responding to Crises in the Ventilated Patient

32 Using Respiractory Waveforms to Adjust Ventilator Settings

33 Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation

34 Ventilator-induced Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

35 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

36 Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

37 Acute-on-Chronic Respiratory Failure

38 Status Asthmaticus

39 Hemoptysis and Pulmonary Hemmorrhage

40 Restrictive Diseases of the Respiratory System

41 Sleep Disordered Breathing

42 Inhalation Injuries

43 Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock

44 Early Goal-Directed Therapy for Sepsis

45 Drotrecogin alfa (activated)

46 Approach to Sepsis of Unknown Etiology

47 Empiric Antibiotic Selection in the Critical Care Setting

48 Neutropenic Patients

49 AIDS in the ICU

50 Endocarditis

51 Infectious Complications of Intravenous Devices

52 Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia

53 Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

54 Fungal Infections in the ICU

55 Central Nervous System Infections

56 Viral Encephalitis

57 Life-Threatening Infections of the Head and Neck

58 Soft Tissue Infections

59 Urinary System Infections

60 Gastrointestinal Infections

61 Severe Malaria

62 Tetanus

63 Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

64 Anthrax and Smallpox

65 SARS

66 Influenza

67 Plague: The Black Death

68 Botulism

69 Cerebrovascular Accident

70 CNS Hemorrhage

71 Anoxic Encephalopathy

72 Therapeutic Hypothermia

73 Status Epilepticus

74 Acute Spinal Cord Compression

75 Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit

76 Neuromuscular Weakness in the ICU

77 Head Trauma

78 Coma and Persistent Vegetative State

79 Brain Death

80 Anemia, Transfusion, Massive Transfusion

81 Sickle Cell Disease

82 Bleeding Disorders in the ICU

83 Thrombolytic Therapy

84 Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

85 Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

86 Thrombocytopenia in Critically Ill Patients

87 Plasmapheresis in the ICU

88 Acute Leukemia

89 Superior Vena Cava Syndrome

90 Bone Marrow Transplantation

91 Toxicities of Chemotherapy

92 Radiation Pneumonitis

93 Acute Renal Failure

94 Renal Replacement Therapy in the ICU

95 Severe Electrolyte Disorders

96 Acid-Base Balance

97 Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Adults

98 Intensive Insulin Therapy in the Critically Ill

99 Thyroid Disease

100 Adrenal Insufficiency

101 Rhabdomyolysis

102 Upper GI Hemorrhage

103 Lower GI Hemorrhage

104 Acute Hepatic Failure

105 Chronic Liver Disease

106 Bleeding Esophageal Varices and TIPS

107 Acute Pancreatitis

108 Mesenteric Ischemia

109 Abdominal Compartment Syndrome

110 Inflammatory Bowel Disease

111 Acute Abdomen

112 Complicatons of Solid Organ Transplantation

113 Care of the Multi-System Trauma Patient

114 Spine Injuries

115 Torso Trauma

116 Pelvic and Extremity Trauma

117 Electrical Trauma

118 Burns

119 Care of the Post-Cardiac Surgery Patient

120 Pregnancy in the ICU

121 Rheumatology in the ICU

122 Dermatology in the ICU

123 Toxicology in Adults

124 Chemical Weapons

125 Anaphylaxis

126 Hypothermia

127 Severe Hyperthermia

128 Near Drowning

129 Carbon Monoxide Intoxication

130 Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

131 Acute Alcohol Withdrawal

132 Central Venous Catheter

133 Pulmonary Artery Catheter Insertion

134 Thoracentesis

135 Pericardiocentesis

136 Emergent Surgical Airway

137 Infection Control In the ICU

138 Transporting the Critically Ill

139 The eICU

140 Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapy and Administering Palliative Carer