Gastrointestinal Intensive Care

Trials and guidelines in gastroenterology and hepatology
Acute hepatic failure
Interpretation of deranged LFTs
Interpretation of a raised ammonia level
Acute liver failure: causes and diagnostic evaluation
Physiological consequences of acute liver failure
Management of acute liver failure
Prognosis of acute liver failure
Hepatorenal syndrome
Malnutrition
Assessment of nutritional status
Predictive equations to estimate nutritional requirements
Estimation of energy expenditure by indirect calorimetry
Daily nutritional requirements of the critically ill patient
Consequences of malnutrition in the critically ill patient
Cachexia
Refeeding syndrome
Physiological adaptation to prolonged starvation
Enteral and parenteral nutrition
Estimation of energy expenditure by the reverse Fick method
Complications of overfeeding the critically ill patient
Summary of guidelines for nutritional support in ICU
Enteral nutrition vs parenteral nutrition in the critically ill
When and how to start parenteral nutrition
When and how to start enteral nutrition
Hypocaloric enteral nutrition
Management of inadequate nutrition and feed intolerance
Immunonutrition and pharmaconutrition
Enteral nutrition for patients with renal failure in the ICU
Nutritional manipulation of carbon dioxide production
Nutrition for the patient with severe pancreatitis
Nutritional support for the morbidly obese ICU patient
Complications of enteral nutrition
Routes of enteral nutrition
Contents of enteral supplements
Contents and properties of the parenteral nutrition mixture
Chronic hepatic failure
Staging and prognosis of chronic liver disease in ICU
Acute decompensation of chronic end-stage liver disease
Pulmonary complications of liver disease
Hepatic encephalopathy
Portal vein thrombosis
Portal hypertension and ascites
Ascitic fluid analysis
Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS)
Cholecystitis and cholangitis
Ascending cholangitis
Acalculous cholecystitis
Intra-abdominal catastrophes
Faecal peritonitis
Catastrophic peritonitis
Abdominal compartment syndrome
Mesenteric ischaemia
Massive abdominal haemorrhage due to vascular catastrophe
Pancreatitis
Severe acute pancreatitis
Acute gastrointestinal bleeding
Acute gastrointestinal bleeding: upper GI
Acute gastrointestinal bleeding: lower GI
Stress-related gastric ulceration in critical illness
Gastrointestinal infections requiring ICU support
Clostridioides difficile
Gastro-intestinal motility syndromes
Causes of diarrhoea in the ICU
Gut dysmotility and prokinetics
Constipation and ileus in the critically ill
Oesophageal pathologies
Care for the patient with oesophageal perforation

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