Critical Care: A Problem-Based Learning Approach provides a comprehensive review of the dynamic and ever-changing field of critical care. Its problem-based format incorporates a vast pool of practical, ABA board-exam-style multiple-choice questions for self-assessment, and is an ideal resource for exam preparation as well as ongoing clinical education among trainees and clinicians.
Each of its 35 case-based chapters is accompanied by questions and answers, accessible online in a full practice exam. The cases presented are unique, as each chapter begins with a case description, usually a compilation of several actual cases; it then branches out through case-based questions, to increasingly complex situations. This structure is designed to create an authentic experience that mirrors that of working through the nuances of a complicated clinical scenario.
The discussion sections that follow offer a comprehensive approach to the chapter's subject matter, thus creating a modern, complete, and up-to-date medical review of that topic.
1 Asthma 2 Airway obstruction, bleeding, and pain control after tonsillectomy 3 The Failing Fontan 4 ARDS and Ventilator Management 5 Pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary hemorrhage 6 Ventilator and Chest Tube Management for Pneumothorax in a patient with Bullous Emphysema 7 Ruptured Esophageal Varices and Complications of Massive Blood Transfusion 8 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage 9 Motor vehicle accident with skull fracture and c-spine compromise 10 NMDA Encephalitis 11 Stroke treated with Mechanical Thrombectomy 12 Elevated ICP with a sella turcica tumor with diplopia and panhypopituitarism 13 Post-operative Myocardial Ischemia Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock 14 In-Hospital Acute Coronary Syndrome 15 Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy with Systolic Anterior Motion of the Mitral Valve 16 Refractory VT/VF to ECLS/ECMO: With discussion of VV vs VA and cannulation strategies 17 Anaphylaxis Presenting from Home 18 Severe Thermal Burn Injury, Greater Than 80% Total Body Surface Area 19 Motor vehicle accident and abdominal pain 20 Pre-Eclampsia and HELLP syndrome in the parturient 21 Postpartum Hemorrhage 22 Amniotic Fluid Embolism 23 Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) with Hypercarpnia and Hypoxia after Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass Surgery 24 Mesenteric Ischemia with Dead Bowel after Major Abdominal Surgery 25 Complications of bariatric surgery including rhabdomyolysis with acidosis and AKI 26 Sepsis: Laparoscopic Bowel Surgery 27 Abdominal Compartment Syndrome 28 Cardiac Tamponade 29 Atrial Fibrillation with Rapid Ventricular Response post Mitral Valve Repair 30 Ventricular Fibrillation / Ventricular Tachycardia After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting 31 LVAD Complicated by RV Failure 32 Left Ventricular Assist Device with intracranial hemorrhage 33 Vasoplegia Syndrome Management Post Cardiac Surgery 34 Diagnosis of Brain Death and Management of the Brain Dead Patient 35 Ethics in the ICU
Taylor Johnston, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York Steven Miller, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Divisions of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Critical Care Anesthesiology, and Neuroanesthesia, Columbia University Medical Center, New York Joseph Rumley, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York
