Critical Care Update 2023

SECTION 1: Sepsis Diagnosis and Management
1. Precision Medicine in Septic Shock
2. Optimal Blood Pressure Target in Patients with Septic Shock
3. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines in 2022: What is New and what has Changed?
4. Individualizing Hemodynamics in Septic Shock
5. Adjunctive Therapies in Sepsis: Current Status
6. Refractory Septic Shock: What are the Options
7. Steroids in Sepsis and Clinical Outcomes
8. Candida auris: Detection, Prevention, and Management
9. Empirical Antifungal Treatment: Is It Justified?
10. Role of Steroids in Severe Community acquired Pneumonia
11. Procalcitonin: Can It Differentiate Bacterial versus Fungal Infection

SECTION 2: Antimicrobial Therapy in ICU
12. Optimizing Antimicrobial Dosing in the Intensive Care Unit
13. Antibiotic within 1 hour: Should this be Applied to all Patients with Sepsis?
14. Dark Side of Antibiotics
15. Optimal Duration of Antibiotic Therapy
16. Cefiderocol: Is this the Answer to Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative Infection?

SECTION 3: Respiratory Critical Care
17. Management of Pneumonia in Intensive Care
18. Reverse Triggering during Controlled Ventilation: A Frequent Dysynchrony with Various Consequences
19. Use of Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction in Pneumonia
20. Management of Complicated Pleural Effusion
21. Hepatic Hydrothorax
22. Submassive Pulmonary Embolism
23. Role of Magnesium in Respiratory Failure
24. ARDS in Children: How is it Different?
25. Safe Tracheal Intubation in Intensive Care Unit
26. Lateral Positioning: Does it Work?
27. Dyspnea in Patients on Invasive Ventilation: Clinical Impact
28. Complications of Noninvasive Ventilation Failure

SECTION 4: Mechanical Ventilation
29. Setting Optimum PEEP
30. Open Lung or Keep Lung Closed: Which Strategy to Choose?
31. Driving Pressure or Mechanical Power: Which One to Monitor?
32. Measuring Respiratory Drive and Muscle Effort
33. Oxygenation Targets in Mechanically Ventilated Critically-ill Patients
34. Ventilatory Ratio: A New Monitoring Tool
35. Helmet NIV: Is it a Game Changer?
36. Electrical Impedance Tomography: Current Application
37. Automatic Tube Compensation: Does it have a Role?
38. High-frequency Oscillatory Ventilation in Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
39. Noninvasive Ventilation in Pediatrics: Current Status

SECTION 5: Cardiovascular Critical Care
40. Crystalloid Resuscitation: Finding the Balance
41. Artificial Intelligence Tools to Optimize Hemodynamics in the ICU
42. Aggressive or Restrictive Fluid Resuscitation
43. Predicting Hypotension: Is It Useful?
44. Vasopressors: How Early?
45. Myocardial Injury after Noncardiac Surgery
46. Use of Vasopressin during Cardiac Arrest

SECTION 6: Echocardiography and Ultrasound
47. Advances in Intensive Care Unit Echocardiography
48. Transesophageal Echocardiography: Is It Preferable in the Intensive Care Unit?
49. ECHO Features of Pulmonary Hypertension and Increased Left Atrial Pressures
50. Role of Echocardiography in Shock State
51. Use of Echocardiography in Assessing Fluid Responsiveness
52. Venous Excess Ultrasound Score (VExUS)

SECTION 7: Nephrology, Fluids, Acid-Base Balance and Electrolytes Balance
53. Fluid Management in Acute Kidney Injury
54. Sepsis-associated Acute Kidney Injury: Common but Poorly Understood
55. Delayed versus Very Delayed Renal Replacement Therapy
56. Plasma Exchange in Intensive Care Unit: Current Status
57. Acute Kidney Injury Care Bundle
58. Biomarker-driven Therapy in AKI
59. How to Approach Dyselectrolytemias in a Patient on CRRT?

SECTION 8: Neurocritical Care
60. Prognostication in

Rajesh Chandra Mishra MD (Medicine) FNCCCM EDICM FCCM FCCP FICCM FICP

Sheila Nainan Myatra MD FCCM FICCM

Deepak Govil MD EDIC FICCM FCCM

Subhash Todi MD MRCP