Gastrointestinal Intensive Care

Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS)

Enteral feeding intolerance

Acute gastrointestinal bleeding: transfusion thresholds

Interpretation of a raised ammonia level

Massive upper GI bleed: assessment and management

Hepatic encephalopathy

Massive lower GI bleeding: definitive management options

Nutrition in the ICU: a generic approach

Pulmonary complications of liver disease and hepatorenal syndrome

Mesenteric ischaemia

Contents and properties of the parenteral nutrition mixture

Stress ulcer prophylaxis - critically evaluate PPI use

Ascitic fluid analysis: malignant ascites

Physiological consequences of acute liver failure

Hepatic encephalopathy - differentials, management, clinical signs

Massive abdominal haemorrhage: renal biopsy

Clostridium difficile: investigations, clinical features, management

Mesenteric ischaemia, including venous ischaemia

Massive upper GI haemorrhage

Enterocutaneous fistula

TIPS procedure: mechanism, indications, contraindications, complications

Mesenteric ischaemia

Abdominal compartment syndrome

Whipple's pancreaticoduodenohorrendoplasty

Causes of metabolic acidosis

Assessment of malnutrition and pathophysiology of refeeding syndrome

Wernicke's encephalopathy

Acute vs acute-on-chronic liver failure: difference in their features

Stress ulcer prophylaxis: "critically evaluate"

Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis: ascitic fluid analysis

Diarrhoea in the ICU (in a bone marrow transplant recipient)

Enteral nutrition in critical illness

Nutrition for the morbidly obese patient

Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS)

Causes of LFT derangement

C.difficile colitis: risk factors, transmission prevention, diagnosis, management

Surgical abdominal catastrophe: management of enterocutaneous fistula

Perioperative management of the liver transplant recipient

Stress ulceration - risk factors for it, and strategies for prevention

Colonic pseudo-obstruction

Severe acute pancreatitis: antibiotics, ERCP and nutrition

Hepatic encephalopathy

Hypocaloric enteral nutrition: permissive underfeeding and "trophic" feeding

Mesenteric ischaemia

Interpretation of a raised ammonia level (probably a valproate overdose)

Massive upper GI haemorrhage

Constipation in the ICU: a variation on the theme of critical care gut dysmotility.

Clostridium difficile: also, strategies to prevent the transmission of multi-resistant organisms

Causes of deranged LFTs. Also, causes of metabolic acidosis.

Perioperative management of the liver transplant recipient

Causes of acute liver failure: six differentials

Estimation of energy expenditure in critical illness; also TPN prescription

Nutrition for the patient with severe pancreatitis; also complications of enteral nutrition.

Causes of acute liver failure and management of acute liver failure

Interpretation of deranged LFTs (or, "why is this alcoholic unconscious?")

Clostridium difficile again: risk factors, diagnosis, complications, prevention, treatment.

Estimation of energy expenditure in critical illness

Metabolic changes in starvation; and the metabolic adaptations of the stress response

Wernicke's Encephalopathy

Refeeding syndrome- a characteristic electrolyte panel

Abdominal compartment syndrome

Utility of serum ammonia and BNP (see Cardiac biomarkers)

Perioperative management of the liver transplant recipient

Portal vein thrombosis and antithrombin III deficiency.

Nutrition for the morbidly obese ICU patient. Also, effects of obesity on metabolism.

Clostridium difficile; what causes "infective diarrhoea" in the critically ill?

Interpretation of deranged LFTs (or, "why is this alcoholic unconscious?")

Enteral vs parenteral nutrition; specifically in the context of pancreatitis

Cachexia: a definition, risk factors, and consequences.

TIPS procedure. Also, staging and prognosis of chronic liver disease.

Causes of acute liver failure: causes and complications

Estimation of energy expenditure in critical illness;

Assessment of nutritional status

Clinical signs of portal hypertension. List them. 

Refeeding syndrome

Portal hypertension: list 4 clinical signs

Severe pancreatitis in ICU: causes, complications, role of antibiotic prophylaxis.

Interpretation of a raised ammonia level: causes of hyperammonaemia

Ascites: the "fluid thrill", an obscure clinical test for massive ascites.

A comparison of enteral feeding tubes and routes of enteral nutrition

Wernicke's Encephalopathy.

Estimation of energy expenditure; Refeeding syndrome

Hepatorenal syndrome

When and how to start Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)

Abdominal compartment syndrome

Perioperative care for the partial hepatectomy patient

Pseudomembranous colitis:  "likely causes" (its not always Clostridium difficile)

Interpretation of deranged LFTs (or, "why is this alcoholic unconscious?")

Refeeding syndrome

Interpretation of deranged LFTs

Severe pancreatitis in ICU: diagnosis, complications, supportive management.

Perioperative care for the partial hepatectomy patient

Immunonutrition - "critically evaluate"

A comparison of enteral feeding tubes and routes of enteral nutrition

Hepatic encephalopathy; also, perioperative care of the partial hepatectomy patient

Stress-related gastric ulceration in critical illness

Prokinetics: compare three different ones

Ascites: indications for an ascitic tap and interpretation of ascitic fluid tests

Abdominal compartment syndrome

Management of inadequate nutrition and feed intolerance

Contents and properties of TPN: role of lipid mixture in pancreatitis

Prognosis of end-stage liver disease in the ICU

Hepatic encephalopathy

Massive gastrointestinal haemorrhage (management of bleeding varices)

Massive gastrointestinal haemorrhage (emergency management thereof)

Hepatorenal syndrome