Contents: Critical care pediatrics

Hematology
  • Diagnosis and treatment of venous thrombosis and thromboembolism in infants and children
  • Pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of venous thrombosis and thromboembolism in infants and children
Monitoring
  • Measurement of arterial blood gases and arterial catheterization in children
Nephrology
  • Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of Shiga-like toxin associated (typical) hemolytic uremic syndrome in children
  • Treatment of Shiga-like toxin associated (typical) hemolytic uremic syndrome in children
Neurology
  • Assessment of the pediatric patient for potential organ donation
  • Elevated intracranial pressure in children
  • Epidemiology, mechanisms, and types of abusive head injury in infants and children
  • Evaluation and diagnosis of abusive head injury in infants and children
  • Management of the potential pediatric organ donor
Pain control
  • Infiltrative anesthetics
  • Procedural sedation and analgesia in children
  • Topical anesthetics in children
Poisonings
  • Acetaminophen (paracetamol) poisoning in children and adolescents
  • Acute iron poisoning
  • Approach to the child with occult toxic exposure
  • Caustic esophageal injury in children
  • Decontamination of poisoned children
  • Opioid intoxication in children and adolescents
  • Salicylate poisoning in children and adolescents
Respiratory
  • Child abuse: Injuries of the thorax; abdomen; retroperitoneum; and pelvis
  • Emergent evaluation of acute upper airway obstruction in children
  • Hemoptysis in children
  • Measurement of arterial blood gases and arterial catheterization in children
  • Oxygenation and mechanisms of hypoxemia
  • Pulmonary contusion in children
  • Spontaneous pneumothorax in children
  • The acute chest syndrome in children and adolescents with sickle cell disease
Resuscitation
  • Assessment of perfusion in pediatric resuscitation
  • Basic airway management in children
  • Intraosseous cannulation
  • Overview of basic life support in infants and children
  • Primary drugs in pediatric resuscitation
  • Vascular (venous) access for pediatric resuscitation and other pediatric emergencies
Shock
  • Hypovolemic shock in children: Initial evaluation and management
  • Physiology and classification of shock in children
  • Septic shock: Initial evaluation and management in children
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