Best 2022 Clinical Cases in Intensive Care Medicine

Complicated Childbirth.- Airway complications. Management of a non-traumatic tracheal lesion in severe tracheobronchomalacia.- Bronchopleural fistula. Post COVID-19 bronchopleural fistula treated with "closed-lung" minimal ventilation and ECCO2R.- Weaning from mechanical ventilation. Antipsychotic-induced respiratory dyskinesia in a patient with severe SARS-CoV2 pneumonia.- Pulmonary embolism in the ICU.- Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. An Uncommon Cause of Pulmonary Embolism.- Right ventricular failure in pulmonary embolism. The forgotten chamber: When in trouble, go back to basics.- Mechanical circulatory support in pulmonary embolism. VA-ECMO for resuscitation of cardiac arrest after pulmonary embolism in brain stem intracranial hemorrhage.- Wrap up.- Part III. The best clinical cases in cardiovascular medicine.- Principles and management of rhythm disturbances. Overview of cardiac arrest.-Arrhythmias. Electrical storm in a COVID-19 patient.- Antiarrhythmic drugs. A case of near-fatal chronic digoxin toxicity.- Cardiac arrest. Pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest on the soccer pitch - how implementation of digital solutions into the chain of survival can help with a favorable outcome.- Principles and management of heart failure and cardiogenic shock.- Differential diagnosis of shock. A 60- year old woman with gastrointestinal bleeding in hemorrhagic shock- an unexpected shift in shock etiology.- Cardiogenic shock. Seizure-associated takotsubo cardiomyopathy complicated by cardiogenic shock and successfully treated with levosimendan.- Cardiogenic shock. Cardiogenic shock due to reversed Takotsubo syndrome associated with E-cigarrete or vaping product use-associated lung injury (EVALI).- Ivabradine as an alternative to beta-blockade in Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: case report.- Myocarditis. Novel immunotherapy and mechanical cardiac support in myocarditis: A case report.- Peripartum cardiomyopathy. Peripartum cardiomyopathy- Diagnostic and therapeutic challenge.- Perioperative cardiovascular critical care. Impact of perioperative veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation on outcome in a patient with impaired cardiac function undergoing open thoracoabdominal penetrating aortic ulcer repair.- Wrap-up.- Part IV. The best clinical cases in neurocritical care and severe trauma.- Principles and management of subarachnoid hemorrhage.- Respiratory complications of SAH. Systemic complications of subarachnoid hemorrhage.- Cardiovascular complications of SAH. Neurogenic stunned myocardium in subarachnoid hemorrhage.- Principles and management of severe trauma and bleeding.- Traumatic brain injury and rhabdomyolysis. Continuous renal replacement therapy management in a patient with severe traumatic brain injury and rhabdomyolysis-associated acute kidney injury.- Post-traumatic cardiac tamponade. Delayed post-traumatic tamponade: the end of the tunnel.- Pelvic trauma. Polytrauma patient with refractory shock.- Abdominal and pelvic bleeding control strategies. Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) in a patient with exsanguinating penetrating torso trauma. A clinical case.- Principles and management of hemorrhagic shock.- Hemothorax. Massive Hemothorax Of Extremely Rare Cause.- Spleen rupture. An Unusual Cause of Syncope.- Transfusion complications. Blood transfusion triggered posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.- Wrap-up.- Part V. The best clinical cases in severe endocrine and metabolic disorders.- Endocrine and metabolic disorders in the ICU.- Diabetes ketoacidosis. New onset diabetes with diabetic ketoacidosis after SARS-CoV-2 infection in adult critically ill patient.- Porphyria. Acute Intermittent Porphyria: A challenging diagnosis and treatment.- Cyanide poisoning. Arterialization of venous blood.- Wrap-up.- Part VI. The best clinical cases in severe inflammatory disorders.- Inflammatory disorders in the ICU.- Systemic capillary leak syndrome. In case of severe hemoconcentration and hypovolemic shock, also think of zebras: a case of systemic capillary leak syndrome.- Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in a critically ill adult with asymptomatic post-acute COVID-19.- Miastenia gravis. The approach to a patient with a myasthenic crisis in an intensive care unit.- Adult-onset Still's disease. A usual presentation of an unusual case.- Wrap-up.

María Martínez-Martínez is an intensivist in Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona (Spain). She is part of the ECMO retrieval team and has a strong interest in the treatment and support of severe acute respiratory failure, including lung transplantation and ECMO. Her areas of research are respiratory infections, early mobilisation and long-term outcomes of critically ill patients. She is a member of the NEXT Committee and the E-learning subcommittee of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Stefan J Schaller is currently the deputy clinical director of the Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CVK/CCM) at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. After his medical degree in Graz, Austria, he finished his residency in anaesthesiology, followed by a specialisation in intensive care medicine at the Technical University Munich. During that time, he also did a postdoctoral research fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA investigating intensive care unit acquired weakness in an animal model. Back in Munich he continued research focusing on early rehabilitation, frailty, and long-term outcome of critically ill patients.Clinically he worked as attending at the interdisciplinary intensive care unit in Munich until he was appointed professor in Berlin in 2019. He is involved in ESICM and currently the chair of the NEXT committee till October 2022.