Critical care medicine

MSD manual professional version

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  1. Approach to the Critically Ill Patient
    1. Introduction to the Approach to the Critically Ill Patient
    2. Monitoring and Testing the Critical Care Patient
    3. Critical Care Scoring Systems
    4. Vascular Access
    5. Oxygen Desaturation
    6. Oliguria
    7. Agitation, Confusion, and Neuromuscular Blockade in Critically Ill Patients
  2. Cardiac arrest and CPR
    1. Cardiac Arrest
    2. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in Adults
    3. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in Infants and Children
  3. How To Do Basic Airway Procedures
    1. How To Do Bag-Valve-Mask (BVM) Ventilation
    2. How To Do Head Tilt–Chin Lift and Jaw-Thrust Maneuvers
    3. How To Do the Heimlich Maneuver in the Conscious Adult or Child
    4. How To Insert a Nasopharyngeal Airway
    5. How To Insert an Oropharyngeal Airway
    6. How To Treat the Choking Conscious Infant
  4. How To Do Other Airway Procedures
    1. How To Do a Percutaneous Cricothyrotomy
    2. How To Do Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation
    3. How To Do Orotracheal Intubation Using Video Laryngoscopy
    4. How To Insert an Esophageal-Tracheal Double Lumen Tube (Combitube®) or a King Laryngeal Tube
    5. How To Insert a Laryngeal Mask Airway
  5. How To Do Central Vascular Procedures
    1. How To Do Femoral Artery Cannulation, Ultrasound-Guided
    2. How To Do Femoral Vein Cannulation
    3. How To Do Femoral Vein Cannulation, Ultrasound-Guided
    4. How To Do Infraclavicular Subclavian Vein Cannulation
    5. How To Do Infraclavicular Subclavian Vein Cannulation, Ultrasound-Guided
    6. How To Do Internal Jugular Vein Cannulation
    7. How To Do Internal Jugular Vein Cannulation, Ultrasound-Guided
  6. How To Do Peripheral Vascular Procedures
    1. How To Do Intraosseous Cannulation, Manually and With a Power Drill
    2. How To Do Peripheral Vein Cannulation
    3. How To Do Peripheral Vein Cannulation, Ultrasound-Guided
    4. How To Do Radial Artery Cannulation
    5. How To Do Radial Artery Cannulation, Ultrasound-Guided
    6. How To Do Venous Blood Sampling
  7. How To Do Other Emergency Medicine Procedures
    1. How To Do Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage (DPL)
    2. How To Do E-FAST Examination
    3. How To Do Ultrasonography
  8. Respiratory Arrest
    1. Overview of Respiratory Arrest
    2. Airway Establishment and Control
    3. Airway and Respiratory Devices
    4. Tracheal Intubation
    5. Surgical Airway
    6. Drugs to Aid Intubation
  9. Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation
    1. Overview of Respiratory Failure
    2. Overview of Mechanical Ventilation
    3. Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure (AHRF, ARDS)
    4. Ventilatory Failure
    5. Other Types of Respiratory Failure
    6. Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation
  10. Sepsis and Septic Shock
  11. Shock and Fluid Resuscitation
    1. Shock
    2. Intravenous Fluid Resuscitation