Clinical Cases in Critical Care

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

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.