Case Studies in Adult Intensive Care Medicine

Guiding FFICM and EDIC exam candidates through the intensive care medicine curriculum, this book provides 48 case studies mapped to eight key areas of study in the UK and European syllabuses. Cases include clinical vignettes, explanations and a list of key learning points, while also being formatted along the structure of FICM case reports. Key clinical management points are identified and linked to appropriate scientific or evidence-based research and case studies chosen reflect a general population relevant to a worldwide readership. Conditions covered are significant to large areas of clinical practice as well as more discrete specialist knowledge, making this an essential study guide for trainees preparing for exams in intensive care medicine and also a useful learning tool for candidates in related disciplines such as anaesthesia (FRCA), emergency medicine (MCEM) and surgery (MRCS).

Preface; Glossary; 1. Cardiac arrest post resuscitation management - NSTEMI / STEMI Richard Porter and Andrew Temple; 2. Initial management of the polytrauma patient Nicola Pawley and Paul Whiting; 3. Management of major burns on the intensive care unit Tushar Mahambrey, Emma England and Will Loh; 4. Management of sepsis Chris Thorpe; 5. Rhabdomyolysis Ingi Elsayed and Ajay H. Raithatha; 6. Management of acute liver failure Elizabeth Wilson and Philip Docherty; 7. Status epilepticus Graeme Nimmo; 8. Acute ischaemic stroke Samir Matloob and Martin Smith; 9. Subarachnoid haemorrhage A. D. Trotman and P. J. Andrews; 10. Management of traumatic brain injury Matthew Wiles; 11. Variceal haemorrhage Gregor McNeill; 12. Surgical management of pancreatitis Qaiser Jalal and Ahmed Al-Mukhtar; 13. Intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome Helen Ellis and Stephen Webber; 14. Management of the ventilated asthmatic patient J. Seidel; 15. Pneumonia Gerry Lynch; 16. Interstitial lung disease Zhe Hui Hui and Omar Pirzada; 17. Chronic pulmonary hypertension: what does critical care have to offer? B. Vickery and A. A. Klein; 18. Acute lung injury Gary H. Mills; 19. The role of non-invasive ventilation following extubation of intensive care unit patients Alastair J. Glossop; 20. Valvular heart disease and endocarditis: Critical care management Jonathan H. Rosser and Nick Morgan-Hughes; 21. Cardiac failure management and mechanical assist devices Miguel Garcia and Julian Barker; 22. Management of common overdoses Ascanio Tridente; 23. Necrotising soft tissue infections in the intensive care unit setting Jane Cunningham and Dave Partridge; 24. Fungal infections Rachel Wadsworth and Dave Partridge; 25. Acutely jaundiced patient - autoimmune hepatitis Lin Lee Wong and Dermot Gleeson; 26. Massive haemorrhage Sarah Linford and Thearina de Beer; 27. Glucose emergencies James Keegan and Gordon Craig; 28. Endocrine emergencies Aylwin J. Chick; 29. Acid base abnormalities Alastair Glossop; 30. Nutrition and refeeding syndrome Sarah Irving; 31. Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in critical care M. J. Feast; 32. Airway management Timothy Wenham and Aditya Krishan Kapoor; 33. Bronchoscopy and tracheostomy S. Cantellow and V. Banks; 34. Central venous catheter infections Andrew Leeson and Stephen Webber; 35. Ventilator associated pneumonia Alastair James Morgan; 36. Neuromonitoring Martin Smith; 37. Monitoring cardiac output Tim Meekings; 38. The surgical patient on critical care John Jameson; 39. Delirium in the intensive care unit Richard Bourne; 40. Death and organ donation Steven Lobaz and James Wigfull; 41. Managing the acutely ill child prior to transfer David Rowney; 42. Who to admit to critical care? Daniele Bryden; 43. Clearing the cervical spine in the unconscious patient in the intensive care unit Michael Athanassacopoulos and Neil Chiverton; 44. Alcohol related liver disease (who to admit to critical care, when to refer to a specialist centre) James Beck and Phil Jackson; 45. Hyperpyrexia Sarah Irving; Index.

Daniele Bryden is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield and Regional Advisor for Intensive Care Medicine in South Yorkshire based at the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK.
Andrew Temple is Training Programme Director for Intensive Care Medicine in Yorkshire, based at the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield.