Medical mind map sources - ICU mind maps
One of the most significant sources of medical mind maps is Life in the Fast Lane, a website edited by a team of Australian physicians. Their 353 ICU Mind Maps can be downloaded as PDF files.
They cover the following extensive range of topics in medical study:
Contents
- 1 Cardiovascular disease
- 2 Dermatology
- 3 Equipment and Procedures
- 4 Gastrointestinal
- 5 Haematology, Oncology and Immunology
- 6 Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
- 7 Investigations and Monitoring
- 8 Metabolism and Endocrinology
- 9 Neurology and Psychiatry
- 10 Nutrition
- 11 Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- 12 Respiratory
- 13 Renal
- 14 Statistics and Evidence
- 15 Toxicology
- 16 Trauma
Cardiovascular disease[edit]
Acute Coronary Syndromes / Acute Myocardial Infarction – Complications / Acute Pulmonary Oedema / Acute Right Ventricular Failure / Air Embolism / Aortic Dissection / Australian Resuscitation Council Guidelines – 2006 changes / Blood Supply of the Heart / Cardiac Physiology / Cardiogenic Pulmonary Oedema / Conduction Disturbances / Deep Vein Thrombosis / Endocarditis / Fat Embolism / Heart Transplant / Indications for Adult Cardiac Surgery / Levosimendin / Mechanisms of Arrhythmia / Myocarditits / Pericarditis / Peripheral Arterial Disease Emergencies / Pulmonary Embolism / Pulmonary Hypertension / Shock / Sudden Cardiac Death / Supraventicular Arrhythmias / Treatment of Severe Heart Failure / Troponin in Critical Illness / Valvular Disease Emergencies / Wide Complex Arrhythmias / Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
Dermatology[edit]
Life-threatening Cutaneous Reactions / Pressure Areas
Equipment and Procedures[edit]
Respiratory Equipment and Procedures[edit]
Abnormal ventilator waveforms / Adjunctive Respiratory Therapies / Adjunctive Therapies for Oxygen / Bag-Mask Ventilation / Breathing circuits / Bronchoscopy / Endotracheal Tubes / Failed Airway Techniques / Haemodynamic Effects of Ventilation / High Frequency Jet Ventilation / Humidification (Inhalational) / Hyperbaric Oxygen / Intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway / Laryngeal Mask airway / Laryngoscopes / Mechanical Ventilation / Oropharyngeal and Nasopharyngeal Airways / Other Airway Devices / Patient-Ventilator Interaction / Percutaneous Tracheostomy / Pleural Drainage
Other Equipment and Procedures[edit]
Central Venous Catheterisation / Defibrillation / Epidurals / Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation / Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump / Invasive Arterial Blood Pressure Monitoring / Minnesota and Sengstaken-Blackmore Tubes / Oesophageal Balloon Tamponade / Overdrive Pacing / Pacemakers – Pacing Wire Insertion / Pacemakers – Pacing Modes / Pacemakers – Temporary Epicardial Pacing / Pacemakers – Troubleshooting / Peripheral Venous Cannulae / Physiotherapy / Pressure Transduction Devices / Pulmonary Artery Catheter / Renal Replacement Therapy / Ventricular Assist Devices
Gastrointestinal[edit]
Acute Pancreatitis / Ascites / Cholecystitis / Diarrhoea in Critical Illness / Fulminant Hepatic Failure / Hepatopulmonary Syndrome / Ileus / Liver Transplant / Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding / Mesenteric Ischaemia / Portal Hypertension / Porto-Pulmonary Hypertension / Pseudomembranous Colitis / Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP) / Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Haematology, Oncology and Immunology[edit]
Anaemia / Anaphylaxis / Angioedema / Antiphospholipid Syndrome / Blood Transfusion Therapy / Bone Marrow Transplant – Cardiac / Bone Marrow Transplant – Complications / Bone Marrow Transplant – Gastrointestinal / Bone Marrow Transplant – Infections / Bone Marrow Transplant – Neurological / Bone Marrow Transplant – Renal / Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy (DIC) / Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia (HITS) / Haematological Malignancies / Organ Toxicity of Chemotherapy / The Immunosuppressed Patient / The Neutropaenic Patient / Transfusion-Related Acute Lung injury (TRALI) / Transfusion Reactions / Thrombocytopaenic-Thrombotic Purpura (TTP) / Tumour Lysis Syndrome
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology[edit]
Antimicrobials[edit]
Antimicrobial Summary I Antimicrobial Summary II / Aminoglycosides / Antifungals / Antimicrobial Allergy / Antivirals / Beta-Lactams in Critical Care / Fluoroquinolones / Glycopeptides / Linezolid / Macrolides / Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance / Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance
Infectious Diseases[edit]
Aetiology of Specific infections / Bacteraemia – Empiric Therapy / Bacterial Meninigtis / Bacterial Meningitis – Directed Therapy / Botulism / Brain Abscess / Bone and Joint infections / Candidiasis, Systemic / Causes of Fever in ICU / Central Nervous System Viral Infections / Common Bacteria in ICU / Corticosteroids in Sepsis / C-Reactive Protein (CRP) / Fungal Infections / Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) / Infectious gastroenteritis – bacterial / Infectious gastroenteritis – protozoal / Influenza / Intra-abdominal Infections / Ludwig’s Angina / Malaria / Multiresistant bacteria / Necrotizing Fasciitis / Needlestick Injuries / Nosocomial Infections / Other Specific Infections / Prevention of CVC Infections / Procalcitonin / Selective Digestive Decontamination / Sepsis – Coagulation / Sepsis – Diagnosis / Sepsis – Inflammation / Sepsis – Pathophysiology / Sepsis – Surviving Sepsis Guidelines 2000 / Sepsis – Treatment / Skin and Soft Tissue Infections / Toxic Shock Syndrome
Specific micro-organisms[edit]
Acinetobacter / Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci / Enterobacter / Enterococcus / Klebsiella / Legionella / Protozoans, Parasites and Rickettsia / Pseudomonas / Staphylococcus aureus / Stenotrophomonas
Investigations and Monitoring[edit]
Imaging[edit]
CT Abdomen / CT Chest / Neuroimaging / Radiograph: Abdominal / Radiograph: Chest / Radiograph: Chest – Abnormalities / Radiograph: Pelvis / Ultrasonography – Abdomen
Laboratory tests[edit]
Arterial Blood Gas / Ascitic Fluid / Autoimmune Markers / Biochemical Abnormalities in ICU Patients / Biochemical Abnormalities – Differential Diagnosis / Cerebrospinal Fluid / Coagulation tests in patients / Coagulation tests / Haematology Investigations / Important ‘Gaps’ / Joint Fluid / Pleural Fluid
Monitoring and Other Investigations[edit]
Capnography / Cardiac Output Monitoring / Central Venous Pressure (CVP) Monitoring / Electrocardiograph (ECG) Abnormalities / Electroencephalography (EEG) / Haemodynamic Monitoring I and Haemodynamic Monitoring II / Intracranial Pressure (ICP) Monitoring / Pulse Oximetry / Respiratory Function Tests / Temperature Measurement / Urinalysis
Metabolism and Endocrinology[edit]
Acidosis in Renal Disease / Additional Indices in Analysis / Adrenal Insufficiency in Sepsis / Approach to ABG Analysis / Bicarbonate – Use in Critical Illness / Calcium disorders / Conn’s Syndrome / Cushing Syndrome / Diabetes Insipidus / Hormonal Responses to Critical Illness / Hyperkalemia – Treatment / Hypernatraemia / Hyperphosphataemia / Hyperosmotic Hyperglycemic Syndrome (HHS) and Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) – Clinical Features / Hyperosmotic Hyperglycemic Syndrome (HHS) and Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) – Treatment / Hypoglycaemia / Hypokalaemia / Hyponatraemia / Hypophosphataemia / Hypopituitarism / Ketoacidosis / Lactic Acidosis / Magnesium Disorders / Metabolic Acidosis / Metabolic Alkalosis / Metabolic Responses to Critical Illness / Myxoedema Coma – Clinical Features and Diagnosis / Myxoedema Coma – Treatment / Normal Anion-Gap Metabolic Acidosis (NAGMA) / Obesity / Phaeochromocytoma / Respiratory Acidosis / Respiratory Alkalosis / Syndrome of Inappropriate Anti-Diuretic Hormone (SIADH) / Thyroid Storm – Clinical Features / Thyroid Storm – Treatment
Neurology and Psychiatry[edit]
Bacterial Meninigtis / Bacterial Meningitis – Directed Therapy / Botulism / Brain Abscess / Brain Death / Cerebral Neoplasm / Cerebral Oedema / Coma / Epidural Abscess / Examintion of the Comatose Patient / Guillain-Barre Syndrome / Hypoxic Brain Injury / ICU-Acquired Weakness / Intracerebral Haemorrhage / Intracranial Hypertension – Management / Ischaemic Stroke / Lacunar Syndromes / Motor Neuron Disease / Myasthenia Gravis / Neurocritical Care / Neuroimaging / Periodic Paralysis / Respiratory Failure – Neuromuscular causes / Reversible Posterior Leukoencephalopathy / Seizures in the Critically Ill / Spinal Injury / Subarachnoid Haemorrhage / Suicide / Tetanus / Traumatic Brain Injury – Management / Traumatic Brain Injury – Mechanisms / Traumatic Brain Injury – Prognosis / Venous Sinus Thrombosis / Viral Infections of the Central Nervous System
Nutrition[edit]
Assessment of Nutritional status / Enteral Nutrition / Glutamine / Micronutrients / Nutrition / Parenteral Nutrition
Obstetrics and Gynaecology[edit]
Airway Problems in Pregnancy / Amniotic Fluid Embolism / Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Pregnancy / Ectopic Pregnancy / Hypertensive Emergencies in Pregnancy / Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome / Peripartum Cardiomyopathy / Physiology of Pregnancy / Pelvic Inflammatory Disease / Respiratory Failure in Pregnancy / Pre-existing Disease in Pregnancy / Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy / Septic Shock in Pregnancy
Respiratory[edit]
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) / Acute Severe Asthma / Airway Obstruction / Aspiration Syndromes / Community-Acquired Pneumonia / COPD / Haemoptysis / Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia / Lung Transplant / Non-Cardiogenic Pulmonary Oedema / Pleural Disease / Pneumonia in the Immunocompromised / Pulmonary Mechanics / Respiratory Physiology / Tuberculosis / Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia – diagnosis / Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia – prophylaxis
(Also see the Respiratory section of Equipment and Procedures)[edit]
Renal[edit]
Acute Renal Failure / CAPD peritonitis / Contrast-induced Nephropathy / Nephrolithiasis / Renal Replacement Therapy / Rhabdomyolysis / TURP syndrome
Statistics and Evidence[edit]
Levels of Evidence / Statistics / Types of Studies
Toxicology[edit]
Alcoholic Ketoacidosis / Alcohol Withdrawal / Antidepressants, Other / Antidotes / Approach to the Poisoned Patient / Calcium Channel Overdose / Carbon Monoxide Poisoning / Digoxin / Envenomation / Ethanol and Toxic Alcohol Poisoning / Hyperthermia / Hypothermia / Lithium Overdose / Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity / Malignant Hyperthermia / NSAIDs / Opioids / Organophosphates / Paracetamol Overdose / Sedative-Hypnotics / Specific Overdoses I and Specific Overdoses II / Specific Problems in the Poisoned Patient / Theophylline and Other Methylxanthines / Tricyclic Antidepressants
Trauma[edit]
Abdominal Trauma – Assessment / Abdominal Trauma – ICU Management / Assessment Principles in Trauma / Emergency Thoracotomy / Glasgow Coma Scale / Head Injury / Laryngeal and Tracheal Injury / Spinal Injury / Thoracic Trauma / Traumatic Brain Injury – Management / Traumatic Brain Injury – Mechanisms / Traumatic Brain Injury – Prognosis
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