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Examination Intensive Care Medicine 2e - eBook
Carole Foot | Liz Steel | Kim Vidhani | Bruce Lister | Matthew MacPartlin | Nikki Blackwell
(2015)
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Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover | Cover | ||
| Examination Intensive Care Medicine | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Dedication | v | ||
| Text contents | vii | ||
| DVD contents | xiii | ||
| About the DVD | xv | ||
| Foreword | xvii | ||
| Preface | xix | ||
| About the authors | xxi | ||
| Acknowledgements | xxiii | ||
| DVD Acknowledgements | xxv | ||
| Chapter 1 - Training in intensive care medicine in Europe and Australasia | 1 | ||
| European Diploma of Intensive Care Medicine (EDIC) | 1 | ||
| Chapter 2 - Strategies for success | 12 | ||
| Timing | 12 | ||
| Preparation courses | 12 | ||
| Textbooks, journals and online resources | 14 | ||
| Study notes | 15 | ||
| Looking after yourself | 17 | ||
| Study groups | 18 | ||
| Clinical cases | 20 | ||
| Vivas | 20 | ||
| Creating the right impression | 21 | ||
| Travel considerations | 21 | ||
| On the day | 21 | ||
| Coping with failure | 22 | ||
| References | 22 | ||
| Chapter 3 - Basic sciences for intensive care medicine | 24 | ||
| Introduction | 24 | ||
| Physiology | 25 | ||
| Sample question | 25 | ||
| Pharmacology | 52 | ||
| Sample question | 62 | ||
| Sample question | 63 | ||
| Sample question | 64 | ||
| References | 67 | ||
| Chapter 4 - Equipment | 68 | ||
| Equipment overview | 68 | ||
| Sample question 1 | 68 | ||
| Sample question 2 | 70 | ||
| References | 76 | ||
| Chapter 5 - Practical and procedural skills | 77 | ||
| Overview | 77 | ||
| Classification of assessment types | 77 | ||
| Advice for approaching procedural skill assessments | 78 | ||
| Examples of scenarios | 80 | ||
| Sample question | 92 | ||
| Sample question | 96 | ||
| References | 100 | ||
| Chapter 6 - Data interpretation for intensive care medicine | 101 | ||
| Overview of data interpretation | 101 | ||
| Imaging studies | 102 | ||
| Electrocardiographs | 147 | ||
| Haemodynamic monitoring | 151 | ||
| Respiratory function tests | 167 | ||
| Ventilator waveforms | 171 | ||
| Indirect calorimetry | 174 | ||
| Capnography | 174 | ||
| Biochemistry tests | 175 | ||
| Haematology | 187 | ||
| Analysis of body fluids | 195 | ||
| References | 199 | ||
| Chapter 7 - Vivas | 201 | ||
| Generic advice | 201 | ||
| Format | 203 | ||
| Vivas for the Primary examination of the CICM | 208 | ||
| Chapter 8 - Clinical cases in the ICU | 209 | ||
| Introduction | 209 | ||
| A generic approach to the clinical case | 210 | ||
| Diagnostic problems | 217 | ||
| 1. Why does this patient have severe respiratory failure? | 217 | ||
| 2. Why is this patient failing to wean from ventilation? | 219 | ||
| 3. Can you extubate this patient? | 221 | ||
| 4. Why is this patient shocked? | 223 | ||
| 5. Why is this patient not passing urine? | 225 | ||
| 6 Why is this patient jaundiced? | 226 | ||
| 7. Why is this patient not waking up? | 228 | ||
| 8. Why is this patient weak? | 229 | ||
| 9. Is this patient brain dead? | 231 | ||
| 10. Why is this patient febrile? | 233 | ||
| 11. What injuries has this multiple trauma patient sustained? | 235 | ||
| 12. How is this patient with multi-organ failure progressing? | 238 | ||
| Specific patient groups | 238 | ||
| 1. The patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | 238 | ||
| 2. The cardiac arrest survivor | 240 | ||
| 3. The post-cardiac surgical patient | 242 | ||
| 4. The patient with a subarachnoid haemorrhage | 245 | ||
| 5. The patient with a head injury | 246 | ||
| 6. The patient with a spinal injury | 249 | ||
| 7. The patient with an intra-abdominal catastrophe | 251 | ||
| 8. The patient who has had an abdominal aortic aneurysm repair | 253 | ||
| 9. The obstetric patient | 254 | ||
| 10. The transplant patient | 256 | ||
| 11. The oncology patient | 258 | ||
| 12. The patient with burns | 261 | ||
| 13. The patient receiving extracorporeal life support | 263 | ||
| 14. The bariatric patient | 265 | ||
| 15. The long-stay patient | 267 | ||
| Chapter 9 - Critical care literature | 269 | ||
| Introduction to the reference library | 269 | ||
| Statistics | 271 | ||
| Sample question | 271 | ||
| References | 278 | ||
| Chapter 10 - Paediatric intensive care | 279 | ||
| Introduction | 279 | ||
| Key paediatric facts | 280 | ||
| -The paediatric component of the FCICM | 283 | ||
| Clinical cases | 291 | ||
| 1. Is this child suitable for extubation? | 291 | ||
| 2. The post-cardiac surgical paediatric case | 292 | ||
| 3. The child on extracorporeal life support (ECLS) | 295 | ||
| 4. The child post-transplant | 297 | ||
| 5. The child with a head injury | 299 | ||
| 6. The child with acute kidney injury | 301 | ||
| Paediatric critical care literature | 304 | ||
| References | 318 | ||
| List of abbreviations | 319 | ||
| Index | 327 |