Intensive Care Exam Topics

       Master’s study programme, General Medicine, Medical Faculty, Masaryk University Brno

                                                CPR

A.

  Basic Life Support (BLS). Foreign Body Airway Obstruction Algorithm (FBAO)

B.

  Defibrillation (Principles, indications). BLS + AED algorithm (Automatic External Defibrillator)

C.

  Airway management

D.

  Advanced Life Support Algorithm (ALS)

E.

  ALS - Bradycardia Algorithm

F.

  ALS - Tachycardia Algorithm

G.

  Drugs for ALS (Indication, dosing, routes of drug administration). Post-resuscitation Care

H.

  Reversible causes of cardiac arrest - 4H & 4 T (management during ALS). PEA (Pulseless Electrical
  Activity)


                                        Clinical Situations

1.

Respiratory Failure (Background, classification). Oxygen Therapy  (Equipment, indication, specific
situation (COPD, ACS))

2.

Principles of Artificial Ventilation (Invasive+Non-invasive)

3.

ARDS (Oxygenation Failure)

4.

Severe COPD a asthma (Ventilatory Failure)

5.

Circulatory Failure – Shock (Definition, types, management and monitoring)

6.

Vasoactive drugs (vasopressors, inotropes). Fluid Therapy (Crystalloids, Colloids)

7.

Arrhythmias in ICU (Diagnostics, drugs, cardioversion, cardiac pacing)

8.

Acute Heart Failure. Cardiogenic Shock

9.

Sepsis. Septic Shock

10.

Anaphylactic Shock. Obstructive Shock (Massive Pulmonary Embolism)

11.

Hemorrhagic Shock (Blood Products Therapy). Massive Bleeding (Life-Threatening Hemorrhage)

12.

Disorders of Consciousness (Definition, differential diagnostics, management). Seizures

13.

Acid-Base Disorders (Approach, definitions, simple disorders, therapy). Electrolytes Disorders
(Hyperkalemia, hypo- and hypernatremia)

14.

Nutrition in Intensive Care

15.

Acute Renal Failure -Acute Kidney Injury (Renal Replacement Therapy (IHD x CRRT))

16.

Acute Liver Failure (Approach, differential diagnostics and management)

17.

Hospital Acquired Infection (Definition). Principles of ABX (Antibiotics) treatment in Intensive
Care

18.

Severe Brain Trauma (Brain edema, Intracranial Hypertension, Donor Program -principles)

19.

Severe Trauma-Polytrauma (Approach and management)

20.

Poisoning (General approach, eliminations, antidotes). Alcohols, CO and Acetaminophen poisoning