PULMONOLOGY – CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
🔹 Respiratory Physiology
- Oxygen transport & oxygen dissociation curve
- Ventilation–perfusion (V/Q) mismatch
- Shunt vs dead space
- Alveolar gas equation
- Work of breathing
- Lung compliance vs chest wall compliance
- Airway resistance
- Closing capacity & FRC
- CO₂ elimination & PaCO₂ physiology
- Hypoxemia vs hypoxia – mechanisms
🔹 Acute Respiratory Failure
🔹 Mechanical Ventilation
- Ventilator Modes
- Newer Modes of Ventilation
- Weaning protocols
- Ventilator waveforms interpretation
- Ventilator Asynchronies
- Barotrauma
- Ventilator induced Lung injury(VILI)
🔹 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
- Phenotype-Directed ARDS Therapy
🔹 Non-Invasive Respiratory Support
🔹 Pulmonary Infections in ICU
- Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)
- Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)
- Aspergillosis
- Mucormycosis
- COVID-19 pneumonia
- Pneumocystis pneumonia
- Aspiration Pneumonia
- Mendelsons Syndrome
🔹 Pulmonary Embolism (PE)
🔹 Airway Diseases
- Severe asthma and status asthmaticus
- COPD exacerbations
- Acute Exacerbation of Interstitial Lung Disease
🔹 Pleural Diseases
- Pneumothorax
- Hemothorax
- Empyema
- Lung Abcess
- Hepatic Hydrothorax
- spontaneous bacterial empyema
- Pleural Effusion
- Parapneumonic Effusion
- BronchoPleural Fistula
- Thoracocentesis
🔹 Pulmonary Hypertension
🔹 Lung Transplant and Donor Management
- Brain-dead donor ventilatory management
- Lung-protective strategies in organ preservation
- ARDS and lung donation criteria
🔹 Airway & Lung Emergencies
🔹Advanced & Special Ventilation Strategies
- Prone ventilation
- Recruitment maneuvers
- Inverse ratio ventilation
- High-frequency ventilation
- Liquid ventilation
- Tracheal gas insufflation
🔹 Miscellaneous
- Atelectasis
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Bronchoalveolar Lavage
- Lung POCUS
- Tracheostomy
- Pulse Oximetry
- Nebulisation
- T-piece