Recent Advances in Critical Care Medicine 2024

Atul Prabhakar Kulkarni MD (Anaesthesiology) FISCCM PGDHHM FICCMProfessor and Head, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, IndiaKushal Rajeev Kalvit MD (Medicine) DM (Critical Care Medicine) EDIC Fellowship in Critical Care (UK)Head, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Medanta Hospital, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India; Senior Clinical Fellow, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Hospital, London, UK

• Section 1: Cognitive and Soft Skills1. Mindfulness-based Interventions in Enhancing the Quality of Life of Critical Care Professionals2. Soft Skills for Critical Care Professionals: Enhancing CommunicationSection 2: Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy3. Hemodynamic Monitoring: What is New?4. Microcirculatory or Mitochondrial Resuscitation in Septic Shock5. Monitoring Right Heart Function during Mechanical Ventilation6. What is New in Vasopressor Therapy?7. Clinical Applications of Ventriculoarterial CouplingSection 3: Artificial Intelligence8. Artificial Intelligence in Critical Care can Save Lives: A Reality or Fiction?9. Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Support in Sepsis10. Ethical and Legal Challenges in the Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Critical CareSection 4: Sepsis and Infectious Diseases11. Genomics for Rapid Identification of Pathogens12. Newer (Lesser Known) Nonfermenter Gram-negative Bacilli in the Intensive Care Unit13. Hyperferritinemic Sepsis: Diagnosis and Management14. Enigma of Cytomegalovirus: Whether and When to Treat?15. Antibiotic-associated Harm in the Critically Ill16. Tissue Penetration of Antimicrobials: Moving from Therapeutic Drug Monitoring to Model Informed Precision Dosing17. Antibiotic Drug Delivery Systems and their Applications18. Nonantibiotic Antibacterial Materials19. How Can We Make Resistant Bugs Susceptible Again?Section 5: Neurocritical Care20. Brain-computer Interface in Critical Care21. Disorders of Consciousness: Lessons from the Curing Coma Campaign22. Super-refractory Status Epilepticus: Drugs and Targets23. Futuristic Intensive Care Units: Can We Avoid Delirium Completely?Section 6: Drug Therapy24. The Newer Vaptans: Conivaptan and Lixivaptan25. Ciprofol and Remimazolam26. Vernakalant and Other Newer Antiarrhythmic Drugs