Clinical Cases in Critical Care

Alice Myers is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust and co-author of a BMJ Book Awards prize winning casebook in paediatric medicine. Theophilus Samuels is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust with level 2 transthoracic echocardiography accreditation from the British Society of Echocardiography.

• Foreword and How to Use This Book ixAuthor Information xAcknowledgements  xiList of Abbreviations xiiiPart I Introduction 1 Section 1 A Brief Introduction to Critical Care 3Section 2 Intubation of the Critically Unwell Patient 13Part II The Cases 23 Case 1 The Patient with Rising Vasopressor Requirements 25Case 2 The Patient with Respiratory Distress I 37Case 3 The Patient with Respiratory Distress II  48Case 4 The Patient with Abdominal Pain and Vomiting 60Case 5 The Patient Involved in a Road Traffic Collision  71Case 6 The Patient with a Raised Temperature 82Case 7 The Patient with Haematemesis  94Case 8 The Patient Who Is Difficult to Ventilate 104Case 9 The Patient with Chest Pain  118Case 10 The Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patient  130Case 11 The Patient with Hyponatraemia  139Case 12 The Patient in Status Epilepticus 155Case 13 The Patient Who is Hypotensive 165Case 14 The Patient Who Deteriorates Post Intubation 177Case 15 The Patient with Reduced Consciousness 187Case 16 The Patient Who had A Stroke 201Case 17 The Patient with Chest Pain and a Rash 213Case 18 The Young Patient Who Collapses  225Case 19 The Patient Who has Taken an Overdose  238Case 20 The Unwell Obstetric Patient  254Case 21 The Patient in Cardiac ICU   265Case 22 The Patient Who was in A House Fire  280Case 23 The Patient with Low Platelets  293Case 24 The Patient with COVID-19  306Part III Test Yourself 319 Multiple Choice Questions  321Single Best Answer Questions  327Answers   333Index  349