🔹 Acute Respiratory Failure

• Type I vs Type II respiratory failure

🔹 Mechanical Ventilation

• Modes: Volume vs Pressure control, PRVC, APRV
• Lung-protective ventilation (ARDSNet)
• PEEP titration strategies: ARDS, obesity, obstructive diseases
• Auto-PEEP and dynamic hyperinflation
• Weaning protocols and predictors of weaning success
• Ventilator waveforms interpretation
• Asynchronies and troubleshooting

🔹 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

🔹 Non-Invasive Respiratory Support

• HFNC
• CPAP and BiPAP
• ROX index for HFNC failure prediction

🔹 Pulmonary Infections in ICU

• Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)
• Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP)
• Fungal infections: Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis, mucormycosis
• COVID-19 pneumonia and its ICU management
• Pneumocystis pneumonia in immunocompromised patients

🔹 Pulmonary Embolism (PE)

🔹 Airway Diseases

• Severe asthma and status asthmaticus
• COPD exacerbations

🔹 Pleural Diseases

• Pneumothorax (primary, secondary, tension)
• Hemothorax
• Empyema
• Lung Abcess
• Hepatic Hydrothorax
• spontaneous bacterial empyema
• Pleural Effusion
• BronchoPleural Fistula
• Ultrasound in pleural evaluation

🔹 Pulmonary Hypertension

🔹 Lung Transplant and Donor Management

• Brain-dead donor ventilatory management
• Lung-protective strategies in organ preservation
• ARDS and lung donation criteria

🔹 Miscellaneous

• Atelectasis: prevention and treatment
• Obstructive sleep apnea and perioperative management
• Aspiration syndromes and Mendelson’s syndrome
• Bronchoscopy in ICU