Multiprofessional Critical Care Review: Adult 2024 (MCCRCA24ON)-Section 2 Handouts

Section 2 Handouts

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The document is a comprehensive multiprofessional review focusing on critical care management, predominantly in adult patients. It details various medical emergencies, their etiologies, management strategies, and relevant case studies. Here's a condensed summary of the sections covered:<br /><br />1. <strong>Toxicology and Drug Overdoses:</strong> Discusses the recognition and management of drug overdoses and poisonings. Key steps include history-taking, physical examination, pattern recognition, and specific antidotes or decontamination methods for various substances like acetaminophen, salicylates, and toxic alcohols.<br /><br />2. <strong>Management of Hypertensive Crisis:</strong> Covers the management of severe hypertension with the aim to reduce blood pressure cautiously. Emphasizes the use of specific antihypertensives based on the patient's condition, such as nitroprusside, labetalol, and nicardipine.<br /><br />3. <strong>Management of Drug Withdrawal Syndromes:</strong> Reviews the strategies to handle withdrawal from substances like alcohol, opioids, stimulants, and cannabis. Treatments discussed include supportive care, medication-assisted therapies, and the utilization of various pharmacologic agents.<br /><br />4. <strong>Bleeding and Coagulation Disorders:</strong> Provides methods to identify and manage bleeding disorders, including platelet transfusions and specific treatments for thrombocytopenia, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), and hemophilias.<br /><br />5. <strong>Acute Kidney Injury (AKI):</strong> Discusses the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of AKI, focusing on fluid management, prevention, and the role of renal replacement therapies (RRT).<br /><br />6. <strong>Oncologic Emergencies:</strong> Describes the management of metabolic and structural emergencies in cancer patients, such as tumor lysis syndrome, hypercalcemia, spinal cord compression, superior vena cava syndrome, and immunotherapy-related toxicities.<br /><br />7. <strong>Electrolyte Emergencies:</strong> Addresses the management of severe electrolyte imbalances, including hyperkalemia, hyponatremia, hypernatremia, and disturbances in calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium levels.<br /><br />8. <strong>Renal Replacement Therapy in the ICU:</strong> Details the use of various RRT modalities, the timing of initiation, dosing, and the benefits and disadvantages of CRRT, IHD, and PIRRT in critically ill patients.<br /><br />9. <strong>Complex Acid-Base Disorders:</strong> Explains the interpretation and management of metabolic acid-base disorders, including both anion gap and non-anion gap metabolic acidosis, ketoacidosis, and the use of RRT for severe cases.<br /><br />10. <strong>Endocrine Emergencies:</strong> Reviews emergencies involving endocrine systems such as thyroid storm, myxedema coma, diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS), hypoglycemia, adrenal insufficiency, and diabetes insipidus.<br /><br />The document is an extensive reference for critical care professionals, integrating diagnostic criteria, management protocols, and up-to-date therapeutic interventions across a broad spectrum of critical conditions.

Keywords

critical care

medical emergencies

toxicology

hypertensive crisis

drug withdrawal

bleeding disorders

acute kidney injury

oncologic emergencies

electrolyte imbalances

endocrine emergencies

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