Mayo Clinic Critical Care Case Review [Paperback]

Mayo Clinic Critical Care Case Review is based on cases presented by critical care faculty and fellows at the Mayo Clinic Clinical Pathological Case (CPC) Conference, capturing the attributes in text and pictures by reproducing the selected best case presentations.Mayo Clinic Critical Care Case Review is a unique compellation of cases presented at the highly rated Mayo Clinic Clinical Pathological Case (CPC) Conference. Designed to cover rare cases in a short amount of time, these reviews are set up in what is called the unknown format: highlighting the clinically key elements of the patient's hospital course, singling out the diagnostic dilemmas, and concludes with a question and answer format that allows clinicians to take home relative points for clinical practice.Written by practicing intensivists and critical care fellows for practicing intensivists and critical care fellows, this book combines interesting reading experiences with critical care medicine review. Each chapter ends with questions and answers that provide a board style review for the readers. Each case begins on the left-hand page with the discussion on the right, written succinctly to provide quick diagnostic understanding. While most critical care review books focus solely on an organ-system format, Mayo Clinic Critical Care Case Review captures the spirit of the CPC Conference in its text and illustrations.Table of ContentsSection I: Cases1 Dyspnea and EdemaBlair D. Westerly, MD, and Hiroshi Sekiguchi, MD2 An Electrical ProblemRonaldo A. Sevilla-Berrios, MD, and Erica D. Wittwer, MD, PhD3 HypertensionSrikant Nannapaneni, MBBS, Lisbeth Y. Garcia Arguello, MD, and John G. Park, MD4 A Rare Cause of Liver FailureAlice Gallo de Moraes, MD, Sarah A. Narotzky, MD, and Teng Moua, MD5 Shortness of BreathCarlos J. Racedo Africano, MD, and Darlene R. Nelson, MD6 Acute Respiratory Failure in a Young SmokerMazen O. Alqadi, MBBS, and Bernardo J. Selim, MD7 ShockMazen O. Alqadi, MBBS, John C. O'Horo, MD, MPHlÃ!