Overview
Main description
High-yield critical care cases help medical students and junior residents master critical care of patients in the ICU
Case Files: Critical Care delivers 40 high-yield clinical cases that illustrate essential concepts in critical care. Each case includes a complete discussion, clinical pearls, definitions of key terms, and USMLE-style review questions.
- Complete discussion of each case makes this an instructive and practical primer for critical care rotations
- Helps students learn, rather than just memorize
- Vibrant two-color design
Table of contents
Early awareness of critical illness; Transfer of critically ill patient; Scoring systems and patient prognosis; Monitoring: hemodynamic and cardiovascular; Critical care imaging; Airway management, respiratory failure; Ventilator management; Respiratory weaning; Asthmatic exacerbation; Non-invasive Methods of ventilator support; Acute coronary syndromes; Cardiac arrthymias; Acute cardiac failure; Meningitis/encephalitis; Antibiotic use in ICU; Sepsis; Immunosuppressed patients; Acute GI bleeding; Acute liver failure; Acute renal failure; Acid base abnormalities part 1; Acid base abnormalities part 2; Fluid electrolyte abnormalities; Traumatic brain injury; Trauma-blunt; Trauma and burns; Altered mental status; Status epilepticus; Stroke; Multiorgan dysfunction; Hypertensive emergencies in obstetrics; ICU patients with obsetetrical issues; Poisoning; Pain control; Post surgical patient in ICU; Post-resuscitation management in ICU; Hemorrhage, coagulopathy; Ethics, do not resuscitate, organ donation; Vasoactive drugs, pharmacology; Nutrition
Author comments
About the Authors
Eugene C. Toy, MD
Professor and Residency Program Director
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
The Methodist Hospital-Houston
The University of Texas--Houston School of Medicine
Houston, Texas
Manuel Suarez, MD
Dean of Clinical Studies and Clinical Professor
Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine
Trinity School of Medicine
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Terrence H. Liu, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
UCSF School of Medicine
San Francisco, California
