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