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Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS)

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Fever in the intensive care unit

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Palliative care: Issues in the intensive care unit in adults

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nutrition support in critically ill patients: An overview

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Neuromuscular weakness related to critical illness

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Withholding and withdrawing ventilatory support in adults in the intensive care unit

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Evaluation of and initial approach to the adult patient with undifferentiated hypotension and shock

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Stress ulcer prophylaxis in the intensive care unit

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Ethics in the intensive care unit: Responding to requests for potentially inappropriate therapies in adults

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Epidemiology and prevention of infections and antimicrobial resistance in the intensive care unit

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Nutrition support in critically ill patients: Enteral nutrition

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Use of neuromuscular blocking medications in critically ill patients

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Ethics in the intensive care unit: Informed consent

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Approach to the adult with unexplained thrombocytopenia

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Glycemic control and intensive insulin therapy in critical illness

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Pain control in the critically ill adult patient

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Nutrition support in critically ill patients: Parenteral nutrition

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Approach to the diagnosis of cytomegalovirus infection

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Use of blood products in the critically ill

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Evaluation and management of severe sepsis and septic shock in adults

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Epidemiology and pathogenesis of candidemia in adults

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Treatment of candidemia and invasive candidiasis in adults

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Sedative-analgesic medications in critically ill adults: Properties, dosage regimens, and adverse effects

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Indications and hemoglobin thresholds for red blood cell transfusion in the adult

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Rapid response systems

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Management and prognosis of patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation

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Corticosteroid therapy in septic shock

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Myopathies of systemic disease

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Hospital management of older adults

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Community-acquired pneumonia in adults: Risk stratification and the decision to admit

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Treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in adults who require hospitalization

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Low molecular weight heparin for venous thromboembolic disease

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Elevated cardiac troponin concentration in the absence of an acute coronary syndrome

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Overview of mechanical ventilation

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Treatment of adrenal insufficiency in adults

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Post-cardiac arrest management in adults

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Acute toxic-metabolic encephalopathy in adults

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Sedative-analgesic medications in critically ill adults: Selection, initiation, maintenance, and withdrawal

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Use of vasopressors and inotropes

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Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Prognosis and outcomes in adults

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Assessment of respiratory distress in the mechanically ventilated patient

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Treatment of severe hypovolemia or hypovolemic shock in adults

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1Definition, classification, etiology, and pathophysiology of shock in adults

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Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Supportive care and oxygenation in adults

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Sepsis and the systemic inflammatory rGeneral approach to drug poisoning in adultsesponse syndrome: Definitions, epidemiology, and prognosis

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Overview of inpatient management in the adult trauma patient

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Noncardiogenic pulmonary edema

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Endotracheal tube management and complications

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Acinetobacter infection: Epidemiology, microbiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, and diagnosis

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Bicarbonate therapy in lactic acidosis

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Thyroid function in nonthyroidal illness

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Invasive mechanical ventilation in adults with acute exacerbations of asthma

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Abdominal compartment syndrome

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Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of candidemia and invasive candidiasis in adults

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Prolonged infusions of beta-lactam antibiotics

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Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Novel therapies in adults

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Invasive mechanical ventilation in acute respiratory failure complicating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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Mechanical ventilation of adults in acute respiratory distress syndrome

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Natriuretic peptide measurement in non-heart failure settings

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Treatment of acute decompensated heart failure: Components of therapy

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Prognosis and treatment of cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction

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Glycemic control for acute myocardial infarction in patients with and without diabetes mellitus

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Venous blood gases and other alternatives to arterial blood gases

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Complications of central venous catheters and their prevention

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Investigational and ineffective therapies for sepsis

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Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in acute respiratory failure in adults

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Management of diabetes mellitus in hospitalized patients

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Physiologic and pathophysiologic consequences of mechanical ventilation

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Significance of hypomagnesemia in cardiovascular disease

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Enteral feeding: Gastric versus post-pyloric

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Prevention of pressure ulcers

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What's new in hospital medicine

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Overview of Candida infections

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Oxygen delivery and consumption

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Gram-negative bacillary bacteremia in adults

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Pulmonary barotrauma during mechanical ventilation

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Treatment and prognosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults

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Modes of mechanical ventilation

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Prognosis of community-acquired pneumonia in adults

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Pulse oximetry

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What's new in geriatrics

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Management of acute pancreatitis

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Prone ventilation

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Prevention of venous thromboembolic disease in medical patients

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Hepatorenal syndrome

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Weaning from mechanical ventilation: Readiness testing

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Hypoglycemia in adults: Clinical manifestations, definition, and causes

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Management of the difficult-to-wean patient

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Methods of weaning from mechanical ventilation

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Clinical presentation and diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia

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The ventilator circuit and ventilator-associated pneumonia

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What's new in pulmonary and critical care medicine

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Stupor and coma in adults

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Diagnosis of brain death

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Evaluation of the first seizure in adults

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Diagnosis of delirium and confusional states

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Overview of the evaluation of stroke

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Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury: Evaluation and prognosis

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Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of pandemic H1N1 influenza ('swine influenza')

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Neurogenic pulmonary edema

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Stroke-related pulmonary complications and abnormal respiratory patterns

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Cardiac complications of strokeDrugs used for the treatment of hypertensive emergencies

Evaluation and treatment of hypertensive emergencies in adults

Moderate to severe hypertensive retinopathy and hypertensive encephalopathy in adults

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Acute toxic-metabolic encephalopathy in adults

Delirium and acute confusional states: Prevention, treatment, and prognosis

Diagnosis of delirium and confusional states

Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury: Evaluation and prognosis

Osmotic demyelination syndrome and overly rapid correction of hyponatremia

Overview of the treatment of hyponatremia in adults

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Air embolism

Eclampsia

Evaluation and management of elevated intracranial pressure in adults

Fat embolism syndrome

Infections of central nervous system shunts and other devices

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Antiepileptic drugs: Mechanism of action, pharmacology, and adverse effects

Convulsive status epilepticus in adults: Classification, clinical features, and diagnosis

Convulsive status epilepticus in adults: Treatment and prognosis

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Antihypertensive therapy to prevent recurrent stroke or transient ischemic attack

Blood biomarkers for stroke

Cardiac complications of stroke

Clinical diagnosis of stroke subtypes

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Etiology, classification, and epidemiology of strokeInitial assessment and management of acute stroke

Intravenous fibrinolytic (thrombolytic) therapy in acute ischemic stroke: Therapeutic use

Overview of the evaluation of stroke

Reperfusion therapy for acute ischemic stroke

Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage: Pathogenesis, clinical features, and diagnosis

Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage: Treatment and prognosis

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