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Critical Care & Critical Illness 

• Critical Care Versus Critical Illness 
• What Lessons have Intensivists learned during the Evidence Based Medicine Era? 
• Have Critical Care Outcomes Improved? 
• What Problems are Prevalent Among Survivors of Critical Illness and Which of those are Consequences of Critical Illness? 
• Do Early Warning Scores and Rapid Response Teams Improve Outcomes?

Basic Respiratory Management

• What Are the Indications for Intubation the Critically Ill Patient?
• Is the Role of Noninvasive Ventilation in the Intensive Care Unit?
• How Does One Evaluate and Monitor Respiratory Function in the Intensive Care Unit?
• What Is the Optimal Approach to Weaning and Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation?
• How Does Mechanical Ventilation Damage Lungs? What can be Done to Prevent It?
• Is Extracorporeal Life Support an Evidence-Based Intervention for Critically Ill Adults with ARDS?
• What Factors Predispose Patients to Acute Respitory Distress Syndrome?

Hemodynamic Management

• What is the Role of Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring in Critical Care?
• Does the Use of Echocardiography Aid in the Management of the Critically Ill?
• How do I Manage Hemodynamic Decompensation in a Critically Ill Patient?
• What are the Best Tools to Optimize Circulation?

General Critical Care Management

• What Strategies Can Be Used to Optimize Antibiotic Use in the Critically Ill?
• Is Prophylaxis for Stress Ulceration Useful?
• Should Fever Be Treated?
• What Fluids Should I Give to the Critically Ill Patient? What Fuids Should I Avoid?
• Should Blood Glucose Be Tightly Controlled in the Intensive Care Unit?
• Is Hypothermia Useful in Managing Critically Ill Patients? Which Ones? Under What Conditions?
• What Are the Special Considerations in the Management of Morbidly Obese Patients in the Intensive Care Unit?
• How Do I Transport the Critically Ill Patient?

Non ARDS, Non-Infectious Respiratory Disorders

• How Do I Diagnose and Treat Pulmonary Embolism?
• Should Exacerbations of COPD Be Managed in the Intensive Care Unit?

ARDS

• What is the Clinical Definition of ARDS?
• What Are the Pathologic and Pathophysiologic Changes That Accompany Acute Lung Injury and ARDS?
• What Is the Best Mechanical Ventilation Strategy in ARDS?
• Is Permissive Hypercapnia Useful in ARDS?
• Do Patient Positioning in General and Prone Positioning in Particular Make a Difference in ARDS?
• Is Pulmonary Hypertension Important in ARDS ? Should We Treat It?
• Inhaled Vasodilators in ARDS: Do They Make a Difference?
• Do Nonventilatory Strategies for ARDS Work?
• Are Anti-Inflammatory Therapies in ARDS Effective?

Sepsis

• What is Sepsis? What is Septic Shock? What are MODS and Persistent Critical Illness?
• Is there Immune Suppression in the Critically Ill Patient?
• What Is the Role of Empirical Antibiotic Therapy in Sepsis?
• What MAP Objectives Should Be Targeted in Septic Shock?
• What Vasopressor Agent Should Be Used in the Septic Patient?
• How Can We Monitor the Microcirculation in Sepsis? Does it Improve Outcome?
• Do the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines Work?
• Has Outcome in Sepsis Improved? What has Worked? What has not Worked?
• How do I Diagnose and Manage Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections?
• Is Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract Useful?

Persistent Critical Illness

• Is Persistent Critical Illness an Iatrogenic Disorder?
• What is the Role of Autonomic Dysfunction in Critical Illness?
• Is Sersis-Induced Organ Dysfunction an Adaptive Response?

Cardiovascular Critical Care

• How do I Manage Acute Heart Failure?
• How is Cardiogenic Shock Diagnosed and Managed in the Intensive Care Unit?
• When Is Hypertension a True Crisis and How Should It Be Managed in the Intensive Care Unit?
• How Does One Prevent or Treat Atrial Fibrillation in Postoperative Critically Ill Patients?
• Is Right Ventricular Failure Common in the Intensive Care Unit? How Should It Be Managed?

Kidney Injury & Critical Illness

• How Does One Rapidly and Correctly Identify Acute Kidney Injury?
• How Does One Optimize Care in Patients at Risk for or Presenting with Acute Kidney Injury?
• What Is the Role of Renal Replacement Therapy in the Intensive Care Unit?

Metabolic Abnormalities in Critical Illness

• How Should Acid-Base Disorders Be Diagnosed and Managed?
• What is the Meaning of a High Lactate? What are the Implications of Lactic Acidosis?
• How Does Critical Illness Alter Mtabolism?

Neurological Critical Care

• Is it Really Necessary to Measure Intracranial Pressure in Brain Injured Patients?
• How Should Traumatic Brain Injury Be Managed?
• How Should Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Be Managed?
• How should Acute Ischemic Stroke be managed in the Intensive Care Unit?
• How Should Status Epilepticus be Managed?
• How should Guillain- Barre Syndrome be Managed in the ICU?

Nutrition, Gastrointestinal & Hepatic Critical Care

• Is It Appropriate to "Underfeed" the Critically Ill Patient?
• How does Critical Illness Alter the Liver?
• How Is Acute Liver Failure Managed?
• How does Critical Illness Alter the Gut? How Does One Manage These Alterations?

Endocrine Critical Care

• Is there a Place for Anabolic Hormones in Critical Care?
• How do I Diagnose and Manage Acute Endocrine Emergencies in the ICU?

Preventing Suffering In the ICU

• How Does One Diagnose, Treat, and Reduce Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit?

Trauma, Obstetrics & Environmental Injuries

• How Should Trauma Patients Be Managed in the Intensive Care Unit?
• What Is Abdominal Compartment Syndrome and How Should It Be Managed?
• How Should Patients with Burns Be Managed in the Intensive Care Unit?
• What Is the Best Approach to Fluid Management, Transfusion Therapy, and the End Points of Resuscitation in Trauma?
• How Should the Critically Ill Pregnant Patient Be Managed?
• How Do I Diagnose and Managed Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit after Common Poisonings?
• How Should Acute Spinal Cord Injury be Managed in the ICU?

Hematology Critical Care

• When Is Transfusion Therapy Indicated in Critical Illness and When is it Not?
• What Anticoagulants Should be Used in the Critically Ill? How do I Choose?

Critical Care Resource Use and Management

• How Can Critical Care Resource Utilization in the United States Be Optimized?
• Does ICU Admission Improve Outcome?
• How Should Care within an ICU or an Institution Be Organized?
• What is the role of Advance Practice Nurses and Physicians Assistants in the ICU?

Critical Care Ethics

• What Factors Influence a Family to Support a Decision to Withdraw Life Support?