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Albumin for Resuscitation in Critical Illness icmcasesummaries.com/2017/03…
Albumin for Resuscitation in Critical Illness

Albumin for Resuscitation in Critical Illness

  A 50-year-old man was brought to the emergency department. He had sustained a burn affecting 55% of his total body surface area and a significant inhalational injury.  In the emergency depar…

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Management of Variceal Bleeding icmcasesummaries.com/2017/02…
Management of Variceal Bleeding

Management of Variceal Bleeding

A 50 year-old man with a history of alcoholism attended to the emergency department having been found at home comatose. He had a reduced Glasgow coma score on admission and was vomiting blood. He w…

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Vasopressin Versus Vasopressin Analogues in Septic Shock icmcasesummaries.com/2016/12…
Vasopressin Versus Vasopressin Analogues in Septic Shock

Vasopressin Versus Vasopressin Analogues in Septic Shock

A 52 year old female was admitted to the ICU with septic shock secondary to cholangitis. She had liver cirrhosis secondary to alcoholic liver disease, although she had been abstinent since an admis…

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Propofol Infusion Syndrome icmcasesummaries.com/2016/11…
Propofol Infusion Syndrome

Propofol Infusion Syndrome

A 28-year-old man was involved in a high-speed road traffic accident suffering severe head injury (diffuse axonal injury) with bilateral haemopneumothoraces and pulmonary contusions. He was transfe…

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Intra-Abdominal Hypertension icmcasesummaries.com/2016/10…
Intra-Abdominal Hypertension

Intra-Abdominal Hypertension

  A 48 year old male was admitted to the ICU with rapidly evolving multi-organ dysfunction. He was in type I respiratory failure, hypotensive and had stage II acute kidney injury. He had been …

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Intra-Abdominal Hypertension icmcasesummaries.com/2016/10…
Intra-Abdominal Hypertension

Intra-Abdominal Hypertension

  A 48 year old male was admitted to the ICU with rapidly evolving multi-organ dysfunction. He was in type I respiratory failure, hypotensive and had stage II acute kidney injury. He had been …

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Adjunctive Therapies in Bacterial Meningitis icmcasesummaries.com/2016/10…
Adjunctive Therapies in Bacterial Meningitis

Adjunctive Therapies in Bacterial Meningitis

  A 42 year old female with type 2 diabetes presented to hospital with fevers, malaise and headache. She had become unwell 7 days earlier with coryzal symptoms, feverishness, and cough with gr…

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An exhausted Jonny Brownlee is helped over the finish line by elder brother Alistair in a dramatic end to the Triathlon World Series in Mexico.

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Advance Decisions in Critical Care icmcasesummaries.com/2016/09…
Advance Decisions in Critical Care

Advance Decisions in Critical Care

  An 85 year old man with good pre-morbid function was admitted to the ICU following emergency laparotomy for a ischaemic perforation of small bowel. He had undergone a small bowel resection a…

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Thrombolysis and Intermediate-Risk Pulmonary Embolism icmcasesummaries.com/2016/09…
Thrombolysis and Intermediate-Risk Pulmonary Embolism

Thrombolysis and Intermediate-Risk Pulmonary Embolism

  A 40 year old woman was admitted to the emergency department (ED) after a syncopal episode. On admission she was in acute respiratory distress and described a two day history of sudden onset…

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Emergency Coronary Angiography After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest icmcasesummaries.com/2016/08…
Emergency Coronary Angiography After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Emergency Coronary Angiography After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

    A 70 year old woman suffered an out of hospital cardiac arrest whilst playing golf. She received bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation and two shocks from an automated external defi…

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Alpha-2 agonists for sedation icmcasesummaries.com/2016/08…
Alpha-2 agonists for sedation

Alpha-2 agonists for sedation

  A 66 year old woman was admitted to the ICU with acute type II respiratory failure secondary to a community acquired pneumonia (CURB-65 score 4) complicating severe COPD (FEV1 40% predicted)…

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Hyponatraemia and Renal Replacement Therapy icmcasesummaries.com/2016/07…
Hyponatraemia and Renal Replacement Therapy

Hyponatraemia and Renal Replacement Therapy

A 63 year old woman was admitted to the ICU from the Emergency Department with acute alcohol withdrawal, severe hyponatraemia (serum sodium level 114mmol/L), rhabdomyolysis (creatine kinase 46930u/…

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Massive Propranolol Overdose icmcasesummaries.com/2016/07…
Massive Propranolol Overdose

Massive Propranolol Overdose

A 35 year old male presented with massive (over 1500mg) propranolol overdose on a background of depression and anxiety. He called for help and was found alert and cardiovascularly stable by paramed…

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Post-operative opioid-induced hyperalgesia icmcasesummaries.com/2016/07…
Post-operative Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia

Post-operative Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia

  An elderly female was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU)following a planned hemi-hepatectomy to remove metastatic lesions from a previously resected primary colorectal cancer. The pat…

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Facilitation Of Donation After Circulatory Death icmcasesummaries.com/2016/06…
Facilitation Of Donation After Circulatory Death

Facilitation Of Donation After Circulatory Death

  A previously fit and well 45 year old man presented to the emergency department with a two-hour history of a sudden onset severe headache associated with weakness, vomiting and photophobia. …

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Invasive Fungal Infections on ICU icmcasesummaries.com/2016/06…
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