High Precision Clinical Calculators: Intensive Care and Critical Medicine
Intensive Medicine · Clinical Specialties
How it begins
Un compendio exhaustivo y riguroso de herramientas matemáticas y algoritmos de decisión basados en la fisiología y la evidencia clínica para el manejo de pacientes con inestabilidad hemodinámica, insuficiencia respiratoria severa y disfunción multiorgánica.
What it covers
- Hemodynamics and Tissue Perfusion in the Critical Patient
- · 01. Cardiac Output by Fick's Principle and Vascular Resistance
- · 02. Cerebral Perfusion Pressure (CPP) and Intracranial Compliance
- · 03. Shock and Inotropic Load Indices
- Mechanical Ventilation and Arterial Gases in the ICU
- · 04. Alveolar-Arterial Oxygen Gradient ($A\text{-}a\text{ Gradient}$) and Kirby Index
- · 05. Predictive Tidal Volume (ARDSNet Protocol)
- · 06. ROX Index for High Flow Nasal Cannula
- Complex Acid-Base Balance in Critical Care Medicine
- · 07. Anion Gap Corrected by Albumin and Delta-Delta ($\Delta / \Delta$)
- · 08. Stewart Physicochemical Method (SID, SIG)
- Physiological Scoring and Severity Systems
- · 09. Extended Glasgow Coma Scale with Pupillary Reactivity (GCS-P)
- · 10. SOFA (Sequential Organ Failure Assessment) Score Calculator
- · 11. Rapid Sepsis Screening: qSOFA vs. SIRS criteria
- Critical Nephrology, Fluids and Resuscitation in Burns
- · 12. Calculation of Free Water Deficit in Hypernatremia
- · 13. Dynamic Glomerular Filtration Rate (Modified Jelliffe Equation)
- · 14. Parkland Formula for Fluid Resuscitation in Large Burns
- Critical Pharmacology and Infusion Pumps
- · 15. Vasoactive Dosage Converter and Calculator (mcg/kg/min to mL/h)
- · 16. Infusion of Sedatives and Anesthetics (Propofol / Dexmedetomidine)
- Advanced Clinical Simulator: UCI QBank
The complete study guide is in the app
This page summarizes the outline. The full interactive study guide —with high-yield diagrams, clinical tables, and board review cases— can be read inside Epistemis, completely offline and ad-free.
- Subject
- Intensive Medicine
- Category
- Clinical Specialties
- Type
- Study Guide
- Sections
- 23
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-02