Contents:

1. Critical Care Scenario in India

2. Recognition and Stabilization of the Critically Ill Child

3. Resuscitation

4. Fluid and Electrolytes in the Critically Ill Child

5. Oxygen Therapy in the Emergency Room and PICU

6. Lung Mechanics with Ventilation: Physiology and Monitoring

7. Basics of Mechanical Ventilation

8. Noninvasive Ventilation

9. Respiratory Monitoring in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

10. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

11. Hemodynamic Monitoring

12. Acute Heart Failure

13. Cardiac Arrhythmias

14. Vasoactive Agents

15. Hypertensive Crises

17. Approach to a Comatose Child

18. Head Injury in Children

19. Status Epilepticus

20. End of Life Care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

21. Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Children

22. Basics of RRT in ICU

23. Gastrointestinal Tract Bleed

24. Acute Liver Failure

25. Pre- and Post-operative Management of a Liver Transplant Patient

26. Nutrition in Critically Ill Children

27. Dengue in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

28. Management of a Child with Polytrauma

29. Drowning

30. Pediatric Emergency Care: Poisoning and Toxidromes

31. Envenomation (Snake Envenomation and Scorpion Sting)

32. Oncological Emergencies

33. Blood Components in Intensive Care Practice

34. Ventilator Associated Pneumonia and Hospital Acquired Pneumonia

35. Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infection

36. Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection

37. Antimicrobial Stewardship in PICU

38. Pain and Sedation

39. Nursing Issues in the PICU

40. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Index