End-tidal capnograph waveform: why'd it go flat?..

Recruitment manoeuvres

Strategies to improve oxygenation in ARDS

Management of bronchopleural fistula following lobectomy

Triggering, cycling and limits in mechanical ventilation (fundamental definitions)

Patient-ventilator dyssynchrony: auto-triggering

Patient-ventilator dyssynchrony: problems with triggering

Ventilation strategies for ARDS due to inhalational (burns) injury

High flow nasal prongs (critically evaluate)

Causes and management of massive haemoptysis

The ventilated patient with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Analysis of ventilator waveforms: high airway resistance and gas trapping

Analysis of ventilator waveforms: airway secretions

Analysis of ventilator waveforms: ?

Analysis of ventilator waveforms: cardiac oscillations

Transpulmonary pressure, its uses and limitations

Causes of respiratory failure: Troubleshooting a suddenly difficult ventilation scenario

Optimal PEEP for open lung ventilation in ARDS

Use of neuromuscular junction blockers in the management of ARDS

Bronchopleural fistula: advantages and disadvantages of the various management strategies

Non-invasive mechanical ventilation in critically ill patients.

Differential diagnosis of ARDS in an AML patient receiving ATRA

Mechanisms of ventilator triggering and mechanisms of ventilator cycling

Ventilation strategies for status asthmaticus; as well as non-ventilator management

Approach to the patient suddenly impossible to ventilate

Pulmonary embolism: role of thrombolysis

Lung biopsy: indications, advantages, limitations and complications.

Ventilation strategies for ARDS

Weaning from ventilation, assessment of extubation readiness and extubation on to NIV.

Pulmonary embolism: a comparison of TTE, CTPA, troponin and D-dimers.

Management strategies for bronchopleural fistula: advantages and disadvantages

Pressure-volume and flow-volume loops

Pressure-volume and flow-volume loops

End-tidal capnometry waveform interpretation

Assessment of oxygenation from ABG data:  increased dead space in PE

Hypercapneic respiratory failure: clinical features and differential diagnosis

Differential diagnosis of diffuse pulmonary infiltrates (is it ARDS?)

Non-invasive mechanical ventilation and oesophageal perforation

Ventilation strategies for status asthmaticus; intrinsic PEEP and dynamic hyperinflation

Assessment of oxygenation from ABG data:  a left-shifted p50

Analysis of ventilator waveforms: bronchospasm and gas trapping

Interpretation of formal pulmonary function tests

High flow nasal prongs: mechanism of action, complications and contraindications.

Assessment of oxygenation from ABG data: hypoventilation (a normal A-a gradient)

Causes of respiratory failure: Troubleshooting a suddenly difficult ventilation scenario

Pulmonary embolism: critically evaluate the role of thrombolysis

Causes of respiratory failure in a patient having radiotherapy

Ventilation strategies for status asthmaticus

Methaemoglobinaemia due to dapsone

Causes of haemoptysis, and emergency management thereof.

Analysis of ventilator waveforms: secretions or rain-out condensation

 Ventilator-associated lung injury (VALI or VILI)

Hypercapneic respiratory failure in a comatose fat man.

Causes of respiratory failure: differential diagnosis of ARDS

Interpretation of formal pulmonary function tests

Ventilation strategies and supportive non-ventilation strategies for ARDS

End-tidal capnometry traces and analysis of ventilator waveforms

Ventilation strategies for status asthmaticus

Assessment of oxygenation from ABG data: a gas taken at high altitude.

Assessment of oxygenation from ABG data:  a left-shifted p50

Assessment of oxygenation from ABG data:  a pulmonary embolism.

Differential diagnosis for a bilateral lung infiltrate after cardiac arrest

Principles of HFOV; also Physiology of gas exchange in HFOV

Atelectasis: clinical features of complete one-sided lung collapse.

Peak pressure, plateau pressure and compliance. Also, Intrinsic PEEP.

Causes of respiratory failure: trauma patient with post-operative hypoxia

Approach to the patient suddenly impossible to ventilate due to VILI

Analysis of ventilator waveforms and pressure-volume curves.

Ventilation strategies for ARDS

Assessment of extubation readiness

Analysis of ventilator waveforms and flow-volume loops

Pressure-volume and flow-volume loops

Ventilation strategies for ARDS

Clinical features of a massive pleural effusion.

Differential diagnosis of wheeze: a patient with unilateral wheeze

Peak pressure, plateau pressure and compliance. Also, Intrinsic PEEP.

Tension-based and content-based indices of oxygenation: A-a gradient vs. PaO₂/FiO₂

Non-invasive mechanical ventilation: complications and contraindications.

Patient-ventilator dyssynchrony: autotriggering in a totally braindead patient

Management of massive haemoptysis

Intrinsic PEEP and dynamic hyperinflation: characteristic ventilator waveforms.

Troubleshooting suddenly difficult ventilation

Tension-based and content-based indices of oxygenation:  PaO₂ vs. SpO₂

Intrinsic PEEP and dynamic hyperinflation: causes, consequences and management.

Inhaled and systemic pulmonary vasodilators for ARDS: nitric oxide

Pulmonary embolism

Outcomes in adult ARDS

Causes of respiratory failure

Ventilation strategies for COPD: assessment of the severity of COPD

Ventilation strategies for COPD

Lung biopsy: specifically, indications for open lung biopsy

Causes and management of methaemoglobinaemia.

Causes of respiratory failure

Pulmonary embolism: massive and sub-massive.

Inhaled and systemic pulmonary vasodilators for ARDS: nitric oxide

Non-invasive mechanical ventilation: indications, contraindications, evidence for use

Prone ventilation for ARDS: advantages, disadvantages, evidence.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Ventilator-associated lung injury

Prone ventilation for ARDS: specifically, effects on oxygenation.

Ventilation strategies for ARDS:  significance of the tidal volume

Outcomes in adult ARDS

Intrinsic PEEP and dynamic hyperinflation: causes, consequences and management

Principles of HFOV; also Physiology of gas exchange in HFOV

Ventilation strategies for status asthmaticus: The role of NIV in asthma.

The oxygen-haemoglobin dissociation curve: causes and consequences of a right shift.

Patient-ventilator dyssynchrony

Chest physiotherapy in the ICU: what is the rationale for it

Ventilation strategies for COPD: intubated patient

Ventilation strategies for COPD: futile ventilation for severe lung disease

Ventilation strategies for COPD: pathophysiology of emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

Ventilation strategies for COPD: weaning mechanical ventilation

Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: long term complications.

Hypercapneic respiratory failure in a comatose fat man.

Atelectasis in a comatose fat man.

Weaning from mechanical ventilation: a high C-spine quadriplegic

Non-invasive mechanical ventilation: indications and contraindications.

Pressure-volume and flow-volume loops

Weaning from mechanical ventilation in a patient with a high spinal cord injury

Pulmonary embolism: management options