Respiratory Failure and Critical Care

Respiratory Failure and Critical Care — Internal Medicine

How it begins

Fisiopatología avanzada de la insuficiencia respiratoria, mecánica ventilatoria, SDRA, estrategias de ventilación protectora, monitorización hemodinámica, sepsis de foco pulmonar y técnicas de soporte vital avanzado.

What it covers

1. Respiratory Physiology — Foundations for Critical Care Medicine
2. · 1.1 Pulmonary Gas Exchange
3. · 1.2 Pulmonary Mechanics — Critical Concepts
4. Respiratory Failure
5. · 2.1 Classification and Pathophysiological Mechanisms
6. · 2.2 Respiratory Failure Type I — Hypoxemic
7. · 2.3 Respiratory Failure Type II — Hypercapnic
8. · 2.4 Arterial Gasometry — Advanced Systematic Interpretation
9. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
10. · 3.1 Definition — Berlin Criteria 2012 and Revision 2023
11. · 3.2 Pathophysiology of ARDS — Three Phases
12. · 3.3 Treatment of ARDS — Evidence and Strategies
13. Non-Invasive Oxygen Therapy — HFNC and NIV
14. · 4.1 High Flow Nasal Cannulas (HFNC / CAF)
15. · 4.2 Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) — CPAP and BiPAP
16. Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (IMV)
17. · 5.1 Ventilatory Modes
18. · 5.2 Protective Ventilation Strategy — Target Parameters
19. · 5.3 Optimal PEEP — Titration Strategies
20. · 5.4 Advanced Monitoring in Mechanical Ventilation
21. Sedoanalgesia in ICU
22. · 6.1 Bundle ABCDEF — Prevention of Post-ICU Syndrome
23. · 6.2 Sedoanalgesia Drugs in the ICU — Complete Pharmacological Profile
24. Weaning and Extubation
25. · 7.1 Evaluation of Readiness for Weaning
26. · 7.2 SBT Techniques
27. · 7.3 SBT Failure Criteria and Success Predictors
28. · 7.4 Extubation — Airway Protection Assessment
29. Sepsis and Septic Shock of Pulmonary Focus
30. · 8.1 Definition Sepsis-3 (2016)
31. · 8.2 Bundles Surviving Sepsis Campaign — Hour-1 Bundle (2018)
32. Complications of Mechanical Ventilation and Stay in the ICU
33. ECMO and Advanced Life Support
34. · 10.1 VV ECMO — Respiratory Failure
35. · 10.2 VA ECMO — Cardiogenic Shock
36. · 10.3 Extracorporeal Artificial Lung (ECCO₂R)
37. Pulmonary Hypertension in the Critical Context
38. Hemodynamic and Respiratory Monitoring in the ICU
39. · 12.1 Evaluation of Response to Fluids
40. · 12.2 Differential Diagnosis of Shock in the ICU