SYSTEMS
- Cardiology
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Hematology & Oncology
- Infectious diseases
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Obstetrics
- Pulmonology
- Rheumatology
- Toxicology & Temperature
- Overview: Guide to supportive care in critical illness
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Arrhythmia
- Atrial fibrillation & flutter
- Bradycardia
- Ventricular tachycardia:
Endocarditis
LV failure
- SCAPE (Sympathetic Crashing Acute Pulmonary Edema)
- Cardiogenic shock & severe heart failure
- LV outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO)
- Takotsubo syndrome
Hypertensive emergency
MI
Pericardial tamponade
Post arrest
RV failure
Shock
- Undifferentiated shock
- Cardiogenic shock due to LV or BiV failure
- Shock due to RV failure
- Septic shock
Vasopressors
Adrenal crisis
Glucose & insulin
- Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
- Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar State (HHS)
- Glycemic control in the ICU
- Hypoglycemia
Thyroid
Abdominal compartment syndrome
Biliary
- Acalculous cholecystitis
- Community-acquired biliary sepsis (ascending cholangitis & calculus cholecystitis)
GI hemorrhage
Intestine
- Nausea & antiemetics
- C. difficile
- Motility disorders
Liver
- Acute Liver Failure (ALF)
- Acute on Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF)
- Alcoholic hepatitis
- Coagulopathy in liver failure
- Hepatic encephalopathy:
- Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS-AKI)
- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP)
Nutrition
Pancreatitis
Anemia & transfusion
- Anemia & hemoglobin transfusion targets
- Massive Transfusion Protocol (MTP)
- Sickle cell anemia – acute chest syndrome
Anticoagulation, therapeutic
Coagulopathy
- Coagulation studies (conventional & TEG)
- Coagulopathy in liver failure
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)
Malignancy
- Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL)
- CAR-T cell recipient
- Immune-related adverse events from checkpoint inhibitors
- Tumor lysis syndrome
Thrombocytopenia
- Thrombocytopenia
- Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome (CAPS)
- Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
- Thrombotic microangiopathies (including TTP and HUS)
General approach
Specific infections
- Biliary sepsis (ascending cholangitis & calculus cholecystitis)
- Candidiasis
- C. difficile
- COVID-19
- Endocarditis
- Epiglottitis
- Influenza
- Line infection
- Meningitis & encephalitis
- Necrotizing fasciitis
- Pneumonia
- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
- Tickborne illnesses
- Toxic Shock Syndrome
- Urologic
Acid-base disorders
- Diagnosis: approach to pH analysis
- Metabolic acidosis
- Metabolic alkalosis
- Respiratory acidosis (hypercapnia)
- Respiratory alkalosis (hypocapnia)
Acute kidney injury
Electrolytes
- Sodium
- Potassium
- Calcium
- Magnesium
- Phosphorous
Fluids & diuretics
General
- Approaches to problems:
- Diagnostics
- Therapeutics
Anoxic brain injury
Effects on other organ systems
Infectious diseases
- Approach to CNS infection
- Sites of infection
- Specific pathogens
Inflammatory
Movement disorders
- Movement disorders
- Baclofen withdrawal & toxicity
- Catatonia
- Serotonin Syndrome
- Malignant hyperthermia
- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
Neuromuscular weakness
- Neuromuscular disorders & generalized weakness
- Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)
- Myasthenic crisis
- Rhabdomyolysis
Neurosurgery
Oncological
Seizures
- Convulsive status epilepticus
- EEG & Ictal-Interictal Continuum (IIC)
- Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE)
Spinal Cord
Toxic / metabolic
- Alcohol withdrawal
- Wernicke encephalopathy
- (More on toxicology 👇 below)
Traumatic
Vascular
- Occlusion
- Hemorrhage
- Vascular tone abnormality
Appendix
- Neurological emergencies in pregnancy
- Preeclampsia & HELLP syndrome
- Thrombotic microangiopathy in pregnancy
General 🫁
- Approaches to common problems
- 🔜 Approach to pulmonary infection
- ARDS
- CO2 abnormality: Hypercapnia and Hypocapnia
- 🔜 DPLD (diffuse parenchymal lung disease)
- 🔜 Eosinophilic lung disease
- Hemoptysis and DAH (diffuse alveolar hemorrhage)
- SCAPE (Sympathetic Crashing Acute Pulmonary Edema)
- Diagnostics
- 🔜 Diagnosis in pulmonology
- ABG, VBG, and pulse oximetry
- Capnography and end-tidal CO2
- Diagnosis of acid-base disorders
- 🔜 Pulmonary function tests (PFTs)
- Radiology
- 🔜 Approach to thoracic imaging
- 🔜 Atelectasis
- 🔜 Cavitary lung disease
- Consolidation
- 🔜 Cystic lung disease
- 🔜 Distribution of abnormalities
- GGO (ground glass opacification)
- 🔜 Lymphadenopathy
- 🔜 Nodular patterns
- 🔜 Reticular patterns
- Therapeutics
- Extubation
- Inhaled pulmonary vasodilators
- Noninvasive respiratory support (CPAP, BiPAP, HFNC)
- 🔜 Lung transplantation
Airway disorders 🫁
- 🔜 Upper airway disease
- Vocal cord dysfunction
- 🔜 Aspiration
- 🔜 Bronchiectasis & 🔜 Cystic fibrosis
- 🔜 Bronchiolitis
- 🔜 Asthma & Critical asthma exacerbation
- 🔜 COPD & Critical COPD exacerbation
Exposures
- 🔜 Aspiration
- 🔜 Drug-induced lung disease
- EVALI (E-cigarette or vaping associated lung injury)
- Fat emboli syndrome
- 🔜 Pneumoconiosis
Infectious 🫁
- Clinical infectious syndromes
- 🔜 Approach to pulmonary infection
- CAP (community acquired pneumonia)
- 🔜 HAP (hospital acquired pneumonia)
- VAP (ventilator associated pneumonia)
- 🔜 Lung abscess
- Bacteria
- 🔜 Bacteria
- 🔜 Atypical bacteria
- 🔜 Nocardia
- 🔜 Actinomycosis
- Mycobacteria
- 🔜 Tuberculosis
- 🔜 Non-tuberculous mycobacteria
- Fungi
- Pneumocystis
- 🔜 Cryptococcus
- Endemic mycoses
- 🔜 Blastomycosis
- 🔜 Histoplasmosis
- 🔜 Cocciodomycosis
- Mold
- Aspergillosis, invasive
- 🔜 Mucormycosis
- Candida
- Viral
Interstitial lung diseases 🫁
- Approach:
- 🔜 Approach to diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD)
- 🔜 Acute exacerbation of ILD
- 🔜 Amyloidosis
- 🔜 CT-ILD (connective tissue-related ILD)
- 🔜 DAD (diffuse alveolar damage)
- 🔜 DIP (desquamative interstitial pneumonitis)
- 🔜 Eosinophilic lung disease
- 🔜 GLILD (granulomatous & lymphocytic ILD)
- 🔜 HP (hypersensitivity pneumonitis)
- 🔜 IgG4-related lung disease
- 🔜 IPF (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis)
- 🔜 LIP (lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia)
- 🔜 Lipoid pneumonia
- 🔜 NSIP (nonspecific interstitial pneumonia)
- OP (organizing pneumonia)
- 🔜 PAP (pulmonary alveolar proteinosis)
- 🔜 PAM (pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis)
- 🔜 PPFE (pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis)
- 🔜 RBILD (respiratory bronchiolitis ILD)
- 🔜 Sarcoidosis
Malignant 🫁
- 🔜 Lung cancer
- 🔜 Lymphoproliferative disorders
- 🔜 Pulmonary complications from malignancy
Neuromuscular weakness 🫁
Pleural 🫁
- 🔜 Pleural effusion
- Air:
- 🔜 Pneumomediastinum
- 🔜 Pneumothorax & bronchopleural fistula
Vascular 🫁
- Pulmonary embolism
- 🔜 Diagnosis of PE & tx of low-risk PE
- Submassive/massive PE
- Pulmonary hypertension
- 🔜 Pulmonary hypertension
- RV failure
- Pulmonary vasculitis & Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage
- 🔜 Pulmonary AVMs & other vascular abnormalities
- Sickle cell acute chest syndrome
- 🔜 Superior vena cava syndrome (SVCs)
Other 🫁
- 🔜 Pulmonary manifestations of systemic diseases
- 🔜 Pregnancy-related respiratory disease
- 🔜 Sleep-disordered breathing
Allergy
Inflammatory
- Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome (CAPS)
- Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
- Pulmonary vasculitis
Basic toxicology
- Approach to the poisoned patient
- Dysthermias:
Common intoxications & withdrawals
- Acetaminophen
- Alcohol et al.
- Anticholinergics
- Baclofen withdrawal & toxicity
- Beta-blockers
- Bupropion
- Calcium channel blockers
- Carbon monoxide
- Digoxin
- Lithium
- Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity (LAST)
- Malignant hyperthermia
- Metformin-associated lactic acidosis (MALA)
- Methemoglobinemia
- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (NMS)
- Opioid
- Salicylate
- Serotonin Syndrome
- Sodium channel blockers
- Sympathomimetics
- Tricyclic antidepressants
- Valproic Acid