Rhythm Disturbances in Critically Ill Patients
Case Print Section Listen A 68-year-old woman is admitted to the neurologic intensive care unit (NeuroICU) after a fall that led to a subdural hematoma. Past medical history is remarkable…
Cardiogenic Shock and Intraaortic Balloon Pump
Case Print Section Listen A 56-year-old man with past medical history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia presents to the emergency department with 1 hour of substernal chest pain and shortness of…
Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
Case Print Section Listen A 62-year-old man with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection on parenteral antibiotics administered via a right upper extremity peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line is admitted with…
The Role of ECMO in Cardiopulmonary Failure in Adults
Case Print Section Listen A 45-year-old man is admitted to the neurologic intensive care unit (NeuroICU) after resection of a craniopharyngioma. Three days into his ICU admission, he has a…
Management of Cardiopulmonary Devices at the End of Life
Case Print Section Listen A 65-year-old man is admitted to the neurologic intensive care unit (NeuroICU) for altered mental status. He was found “down” by his family at 10:00 am…
Acute Decompensated Heart Failure
Case Print Section Listen A 70-year old man with past medical history of coronary artery disease with previous percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), systolic heart failure (ejection fraction, 40%), poorly controlled…
Bronchoscopy in the NeuroICU
Case Print Section Listen A 53-year-old woman who smokes was admitted to the neurologic intensive care unit (NeuroICU) after warfarin-associated lobar intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Her Glasgow Coma Scale in the…
The Neurocritical Care Airway
Case Print Section Listen A 58-year-old man with a known history of poorly controlled hypertension is evaluated in the emergency department after being found down for an unknown period of…
Percutaneous Tracheostomy
Case Print Section Listen A 30-year-old man is admitted after an unhelmeted bicycling accident in which he suffers skull fracture, traumatic subarachnoid and subdural hemorrhages, bifrontal contusions, and diffuse axonal…
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Case Print Section Listen A 53-year-old hypertensive woman (actual body weight, 70 kg; height, 160 cm) was admitted to the hospital with coma (Glasgow Coma Scale E1+M3+V1t) after acute onset…
