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Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Clinical features, diagnosis, and complications in adults
Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, pathology, and etiology in adults
Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Investigational or ineffective therapies in adults
Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Prognosis and outcomes in adults
Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Supportive care and oxygenation in adults
Adverse effects of supplemental oxygen
COVID-19: Epidemiology, clinical features, and prognosis of the critically ill adult
COVID-19: Management of the intubated adult
COVID-19: Respiratory care of the nonintubated hypoxemic adult (supplemental oxygen, noninvasive ventilation, and intubation)
Evaluation and management of the nonventilated, hospitalized adult patient with acute hypoxemia
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in adults
High-frequency ventilation in adults
Liquid ventilation: An investigational technique
Modes of mechanical ventilation
Noncardiogenic pulmonary edema
Prone ventilation for adult patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI)
Ventilator management strategies for adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome
Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) in adults
Intensive care unit management of the intubated post-cardiac arrest adult patient
Acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction: Antiplatelet therapy
Acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction: Selecting a reperfusion strategy
Acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction: The use of fibrinolytic therapy
Acute myocardial infarction: Mechanical complications
Acute myocardial infarction: Role of beta blocker therapy
Acute non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes: Early antiplatelet therapy
Biomarkers of myocardial injury other than troponin
Cardiac arrhythmias due to digoxin toxicity
Cardiac evaluation of the survivor of sudden cardiac arrest
Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia
Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of cardiogenic shock in acute myocardial infarction
Conduction abnormalities after myocardial infarction
Diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction
Electrocardiogram in the diagnosis of myocardial ischemia and infarction
Electrocardiographic diagnosis of myocardial infarction in the presence of bundle branch block or a paced rhythm
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in adults
Glycemic control for acute myocardial infarction in patients with and without diabetes mellitus
Intraaortic balloon pump counterpulsation
Modes of cardiac pacing: Nomenclature and selection
Narrow QRS complex tachycardias: Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and evaluation
New onset atrial fibrillation
Noncardiogenic pulmonary edema
Nonsustained VT in the absence of apparent structural heart disease
Nonsustained ventricular tachycardia: Clinical manifestations, evaluation, and management
Overview of atrial flutter
Overview of the acute management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction
Overview of the acute management of non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes
Overview of the nonacute management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction
Overview of the nonacute management of unstable angina and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction
Pathophysiology and etiology of sudden cardiac arrest
Pericardial complications of myocardial infarction
Periprocedural complications of percutaneous coronary intervention
Permanent cardiac pacing: Overview of devices and indications
Postoperative complications among patients undergoing cardiac surgery
Prognosis and outcomes following sudden cardiac arrest in adults
Prognosis and treatment of cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction
Right ventricular myocardial infarction
Supportive data for advanced cardiac life support in adults with sudden cardiac arrest
Third-degree (complete) atrioventricular block
Treatment of acute decompensated heart failure: General considerations
Treatment of acute decompensated heart failure: Specific therapies
Troponin testing: Analytical considerations
Troponin testing: Clinical use
Ventricular arrhythmias during acute myocardial infarction: Incidence, mechanisms, and clinical features
Ventricular arrhythmias during acute myocardial infarction: Prevention and treatment
Abdominal compartment syndrome in adults
Acute liver failure in adults: Etiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
Acute liver failure in adults: Management and prognosis
Angiographic control of nonvariceal gastrointestinal bleeding in adults
Approach to acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding in adults
Approach to acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in adults
Causes of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in adults
Etiology of acute pancreatitis
Etiology of lower gastrointestinal bleeding in adults
Glycemic control in critically ill adult and pediatric patients
Hepatorenal syndrome
Intensive care unit management of patients with obesity
Malnutrition in advanced lung disease
Methods to achieve hemostasis in patients with acute variceal hemorrhage
Nutrition support in critically ill patients: An overview
Nutrition support in critically ill patients: Enteral nutrition
Nutrition support in critically ill patients: Parenteral nutrition
Overview of the management of patients with variceal bleeding
Overview of the treatment of bleeding peptic ulcers
Pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis
Portal hypertensive gastropathy
Postgastrectomy complications
Predicting the severity of acute pancreatitis
Stress ulcers in the intensive care unit: Diagnosis, management, and prevention
Surgical management of peptic ulcer disease
Air embolism
Amniotic fluid embolism
Catheter-related upper extremity venous thrombosis in adults
Clinical presentation and diagnosis of the nonpregnant adult with suspected deep vein thrombosis of the lower extremity
Clinical presentation, evaluation, and diagnosis of the nonpregnant adult with suspected acute pulmonary embolism
Fat embolism syndrome
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Placement of vena cava filters and their complications
Pulmonary tumor embolism and lymphangitic carcinomatosis in adults: Epidemiology, etiology, and pathogenesis
Treatment, prognosis, and follow-up of acute pulmonary embolism in adults
Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, pathology, and etiology in adults
Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Prognosis and outcomes in adults
Communication in the ICU: Holding a meeting with families and caregivers
Ethics in the intensive care unit: Informed consent
Ethics in the intensive care unit: Responding to requests for potentially inappropriate therapies in adults
Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS)
Predictive scoring systems in the intensive care unit
Prognosis of cancer patients in the intensive care unit
Withholding and withdrawing ventilatory support in adults in the intensive care unit
Approach to the adult with metabolic acidosis
Bicarbonate therapy in lactic acidosis
Clinical manifestations and evaluation of metabolic alkalosis
Clinical manifestations and treatment of hypokalemia in adults
Clinical manifestations of hyperkalemia in adults
Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state in adults: Clinical features, evaluation, and diagnosis
Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state in adults: Epidemiology and pathogenesis
Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state in adults: Treatment
Diagnostic approach to hypercalcemia
Diagnostic approach to hypocalcemia
Diagnostic evaluation of adults with hyponatremia
Evaluation of the adult patient with hypokalemia
Fasting ketosis and alcoholic ketoacidosis
Fractional excretion of sodium, urea, and other molecules in acute kidney injury
Hypomagnesemia: Evaluation and treatment
Hypophosphatemia: Evaluation and treatment
Loop diuretics: Dosing and major side effects
Maintenance and replacement fluid therapy in adults
Manifestations of and risk factors for aminoglycoside nephrotoxicity
Osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS) and overly rapid correction of hyponatremia
Overview of the treatment of hyponatremia in adults
Pathogenesis and prevention of aminoglycoside nephrotoxicity and ototoxicity
Possible prevention and therapy of ischemic acute tubular necrosis
Potassium balance in acid-base disorders
Relation between total and ionized serum calcium concentrations
Renal actions of dopamine
Serum anion gap in conditions other than metabolic acidosis
Simple and mixed acid-base disorders
The delta anion gap/delta HCO3 ratio in patients with a high anion gap metabolic acidosis
Treatment and prevention of hyperkalemia in adults
Treatment of hypercalcemia
Treatment of hypernatremia in adults
Treatment of hypocalcemia
Treatment of hyponatremia: Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) and reset osmostat
Treatment of metabolic alkalosis
Urine anion and osmolal gaps in metabolic acidosis
Etiology of hemoptysis in adults
Evaluation and management of life-threatening hemoptysis
Evaluation of nonlife-threatening hemoptysis in adults
Antihypertensive therapy for secondary stroke prevention
Drugs used for the treatment of hypertensive emergencies
Evaluation and treatment of hypertensive emergencies in adults
Management of acute type B aortic dissection
Management of severe asymptomatic hypertension (hypertensive urgencies) in adults
Moderate to severe hypertensive retinopathy and hypertensive encephalopathy in adults
COVID-19: Evaluation and management of adults with persistent symptoms following acute illness ("Long COVID")
Clinical presentation and diagnostic evaluation of ventilator-associated pneumonia
Dosing and administration of parenteral aminoglycosides
Epidemiology, pathogenesis, microbiology, and diagnosis of hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia in adults
Evaluation and management of suspected sepsis and septic shock in adults
Fever in the intensive care unit
Infections of cerebrospinal fluid shunts and other devices
Intravascular catheter-related infection: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, and microbiology
Intravascular non-hemodialysis catheter-related infection: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
Intravascular non-hemodialysis catheter-related infection: Treatment
Invasive group A streptococcal infection and toxic shock syndrome: Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
Investigational and ineffective therapies for sepsis
Pathophysiology of sepsis
Postoperative mediastinitis after cardiac surgery
Sepsis syndromes in adults: Epidemiology, definitions, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and prognosis
The ventilator circuit
Acetaminophen (paracetamol) poisoning in adults: Pathophysiology, presentation, and evaluation
Acute opioid intoxication in adults
Approach to the adult with metabolic acidosis
Beta blocker poisoning
Calcium channel blocker poisoning
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Cardiac arrhythmias due to digoxin toxicity
Cyanide poisoning
Enhanced elimination of poisons
Ethanol intoxication in adults
Fasting ketosis and alcoholic ketoacidosis
Gastrointestinal decontamination of the poisoned patient
General approach to drug poisoning in adults
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Internal concealment of drugs of abuse (body packing)
Isopropyl alcohol poisoning
MDMA (ecstasy) intoxication
Management of moderate and severe alcohol withdrawal syndromes
Meprobamate poisoning
Metformin poisoning
Methanol and ethylene glycol poisoning: Pharmacology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID) poisoning
Opioid withdrawal in the emergency setting
Organophosphate and carbamate poisoning
Paraquat poisoning
Salicylate (aspirin) poisoning in adults
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor poisoning
Serotonin syndrome (serotonin toxicity)
Serum osmolal gap
Theophylline poisoning
Tricyclic antidepressant poisoning
Valproic acid poisoning
Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Supportive care and oxygenation in adults
Adverse effects of supplemental oxygen
Assessment of respiratory distress in the mechanically ventilated patient
Clinical presentation and diagnostic evaluation of ventilator-associated pneumonia
Complications of the endotracheal tube following initial placement: Prevention and management in adult intensive care unit patients
Continuous noninvasive ventilatory support for patients with respiratory muscle dysfunction
Diagnosis, management, and prevention of pulmonary barotrauma during invasive mechanical ventilation in adults
Epidemiology, pathogenesis, microbiology, and diagnosis of hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia in adults
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in adults
Extubation management in the adult intensive care unit
Heated and humidified high-flow nasal oxygen in adults: Practical considerations and potential applications
High-frequency ventilation in adults
Initial weaning strategy in mechanically ventilated adults
Invasive mechanical ventilation in acute respiratory failure complicating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Invasive mechanical ventilation in adults with acute exacerbations of asthma
Liquid ventilation: An investigational technique
Management and prognosis of patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation
Management of persistent air leaks in patients on mechanical ventilation
Management of the difficult-to-wean adult patient in the intensive care unit
Modes of mechanical ventilation
Noninvasive ventilation in adults with acute respiratory failure: Benefits and contraindications
Noninvasive ventilation in adults with acute respiratory failure: Practical aspects of initiation
Noninvasive ventilation in adults with chronic respiratory failure from neuromuscular and chest wall diseases: Adaptation and follow-up after initiation
Noninvasive ventilation in adults with chronic respiratory failure from neuromuscular and chest wall diseases: Patient selection and alternative modes of ventilatory support
Noninvasive ventilation in adults with chronic respiratory failure from neuromuscular and chest wall diseases: Practical aspects of initiation
Overview of initiating invasive mechanical ventilation in adults in the intensive care unit
Oxygen delivery and consumption
Permissive hypercapnia during mechanical ventilation in adults
Physiologic and pathophysiologic consequences of mechanical ventilation
Positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP)
Prone ventilation for adult patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
The ventilator circuit
Tracheostomy: Rationale, indications, and contraindications
Ventilator management strategies for adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome
Ventilator-induced lung injury
Weaning from mechanical ventilation: Readiness testing
Arterial blood gases
Catheter-related upper extremity venous thrombosis in adults
Evaluation and management of elevated intracranial pressure in adults
Intra-arterial catheterization for invasive monitoring: Indications, insertion techniques, and interpretation
Intravascular non-hemodialysis catheter-related infection: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
Intravascular non-hemodialysis catheter-related infection: Treatment
Measures of oxygenation and mechanisms of hypoxemia
Novel tools for hemodynamic monitoring in critically ill patients with shock
Overview of complications of central venous catheters and their prevention in adults
Pulmonary artery catheterization: Indications, contraindications, and complications in adults
Pulmonary artery catheterization: Interpretation of hemodynamic values and waveforms in adults
Pulmonary artery catheters: Insertion technique in adults
Pulse oximetry
Venous blood gases and other alternatives to arterial blood gases
Acute toxic-metabolic encephalopathy in adults
Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: Treatment and prognosis
Antihypertensive therapy for secondary stroke prevention
Beta blockers in the treatment of hyperthyroidism
Clinical diagnosis of stroke subtypes
Convulsive status epilepticus in adults: Classification, clinical features, and diagnosis
Drugs used for the treatment of hypertensive emergencies
Eclampsia
Evaluation and management of elevated intracranial pressure in adults
Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults: Pathogenesis, clinical features, and diagnosis
Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults: Treatment and prognosis
Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in adults: Evaluation and prognosis
Infections of cerebrospinal fluid shunts and other devices
Initial assessment and management of acute stroke
Management of moderate and severe alcohol withdrawal syndromes
Moderate to severe hypertensive retinopathy and hypertensive encephalopathy in adults
Neurogenic pulmonary edema
Noninvasive ventilation in adults with chronic respiratory failure from neuromuscular and chest wall diseases: Practical aspects of initiation
Overview of the evaluation of stroke
Respiratory complications in the adult patient with chronic spinal cord injury
Respiratory muscle weakness due to neuromuscular disease: Clinical manifestations and evaluation
Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage: Acute treatment and prognosis
Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage: Pathogenesis, clinical features, and diagnosis
Accidental hypothermia in adults
Acute respiratory failure during pregnancy and the peripartum period
Approach to the patient with a suspected acute transfusion reaction
Assessment of adult patients for air travel
Beta blockers in the treatment of hyperthyroidism
Complications of SCUBA diving
Critical illness during pregnancy and the peripartum period
Drowning (submersion injuries)
Electrical injuries and lightning strikes: Evaluation and management
Evaluation and management of injuries from conductive energy devices (eg, TASERs)
Evaluation and management of the nonventilated, hospitalized adult patient with acute hypoxemia
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Immunologic transfusion reactions
Indications and hemoglobin thresholds for red blood cell transfusion in the adult
Indications for bedside ultrasonography in the critically ill adult patient
Iodine in the treatment of hyperthyroidism
Management of moderate and severe alcohol withdrawal syndromes
Massive blood transfusion
Negative pressure wound therapy
Neuromuscular blocking agents in critically ill patients: Use, agent selection, administration, and adverse effects
Overview of inpatient management of the adult trauma patient
Pain control in the critically ill adult patient
Practical aspects of red blood cell transfusion in adults: Storage, processing, modifications, and infusion
Sedative-analgesic medications in critically ill adults: Properties, dose regimens, and adverse effects
Sedative-analgesic medications in critically ill adults: Selection, initiation, maintenance, and withdrawal
Severe nonexertional hyperthermia (classic heat stroke) in adults
Surgical blood conservation: Blood salvage
The evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of the adult patient with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure
Therapeutic apheresis (plasma exchange or cytapheresis): Complications
Therapeutic apheresis (plasma exchange or cytapheresis): Indications and technology
Thyroid function in nonthyroidal illness
Thyroid storm
Tracheostomy in adults: Techniques and intraoperative complications
Tracheostomy: Postoperative care, maintenance, and complications in adults
Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI)
Use of blood products in the critically ill
Anticoagulation for the hemodialysis procedure
Continuous kidney replacement therapy in acute kidney injury
Contrast-associated and contrast-induced acute kidney injury: Clinical features, diagnosis, and management
Dialysis-related factors that may influence recovery of kidney function in acute kidney injury (acute renal failure)
Etiology and diagnosis of prerenal disease and acute tubular necrosis in acute kidney injury in adults
Fractional excretion of sodium, urea, and other molecules in acute kidney injury
Hepatorenal syndrome
Intradialytic hypotension in an otherwise stable patient
Investigational biomarkers and the evaluation of acute kidney injury
Kidney and patient outcomes after acute kidney injury in adults
Kidney replacement therapy (dialysis) in acute kidney injury: Metabolic and hemodynamic considerations
Manifestations of and risk factors for aminoglycoside nephrotoxicity
Nonoliguric versus oliguric acute kidney injury
Pathogenesis and etiology of ischemic acute tubular necrosis
Pathogenesis and prevention of aminoglycoside nephrotoxicity and ototoxicity
Prevention of contrast-associated acute kidney injury related to angiography
Prevention of contrast-induced acute kidney injury associated with computed tomography
Renal actions of dopamine
Tumor lysis syndrome: Pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, definition, etiology and risk factors
Tumor lysis syndrome: Prevention and treatment
Bicarbonate therapy in lactic acidosis
Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of cardiogenic shock in acute myocardial infarction
Definition, classification, etiology, and pathophysiology of shock in adults
Diagnosis of adrenal insufficiency in adults
Evaluation and management of suspected sepsis and septic shock in adults
Evaluation of and initial approach to the adult patient with undifferentiated hypotension and shock
Glucocorticoid therapy in septic shock in adults
Invasive group A streptococcal infection and toxic shock syndrome: Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
Maintenance and replacement fluid therapy in adults
Management of acute type B aortic dissection
Massive blood transfusion
Pathophysiology of sepsis
Prognosis and treatment of cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction
Sepsis syndromes in adults: Epidemiology, definitions, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and prognosis
Treatment of adrenal insufficiency in adults
Treatment of severe hypovolemia or hypovolemic shock in adults
Use of vasopressors and inotropes