1. Pre-ICU critical care -- Triage and transport in the field for the critically ill patient -- Resuscitation and stabilization -- Targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest -- Military-related injuries -- Regionalization -- Pre-ICU syndromes -- Biomarkers in decision making -- Controversies in therapeutic hypothermia -- 2. ICU critical care -- Bedside technology -- Physical examination in the ICU -- Imaging of the critically ill: radiology -- Imaging of the critically ill: bedside ultrasound -- Patient safety in the ICU -- ICU-acquired weakness and early mobilization in the intensive care unit -- Pharmacology in critical illness -- Analgesia, sedation, and neuromuscular blockade -- Airway management/The difficult airway -- Ventilator technology and management -- The acute respiratory distress syndrome -- Venous thromboembolism -- Shock: diagnosis and management -- CPR and ACLS updates -- Arrhythmia diagnosis and management -- Acute cardiac ischemia -- Heart failure syndromes in the critical care setting -- Pulmonary arterial hypertension in the ICU -- Electrolyte disorders in critically ill patients -- Acid-base disorders -- Nutrition support -- Acute kidney injury and failure -- Renal replacement therapy -- Hematologic dysfunction in the ICU -- Transfusion medicine in critical care -- Anticoagulation -- Acute abdominal dysfunction -- Gastrointestinal hemorrhage (upper and lower) -- Liver failure: acute and chronic -- Fever in the ICU -- Community-acquired infections in the ICU -- Health care-associated infections -- HIV infection in critically ill patients -- Sepsis, septic shock, and multiple organ failure.

Antimicrobials in the ICU -- Endocrine dysfunction leading to critical illness -- Oncologic emergencies -- Rheumatologic and inflammatory conditions in the ICU -- Skin complications -- Principles of neurosciences critical care -- Critical care of cerebrovascular disease -- Delirium in the intensive care unit -- Traumatic brain and spinal cord injury -- General postoperative management -- Posttransplantation care -- Posttrauma care -- Postcardiothoracic surgery care -- Postoperative management after specialty surgery -- Postoperative vascular surgery care -- Smoke exposure models in COPD -- Toxic pulmonary inhalation -- Overdose, poisoning, and withdrawal -- Environmental injuries and toxic exposures -- Critical Care issues in pregnancy -- Critical Care of burn patients -- Critical Care of disaster victims -- Controversies: scoring systems in critical care -- Controversies: patient-controlled sedation -- ready for print time? -- Ventilator weaning -- which strategy is better? RT-RN versus physician driven -- Controversies: invasive versus noninvasive strategy for diagnosing respiratory failures -- "Controversies: ventilator management in ARDS: one size fits all?" -- Controversies: corticosteroids for ARDS: friend or foe? -- Thrombolytic therapy for submassive pulmonary embolism -- Controversies: enternal nutrition -- pyloric versus postpyloric -- Controversies: continuous versus intermittent renal replacement in the critically ill patient.

Clinical controversies: ventilator-associated pneumonia -- does it exist? -- Controversies: Scvo2 versus lactate clearance to guide resuscitation in septic shock? -- Controversies: is glucose control relevant? -- 3. Management -- Simulation and education in the ICU -- ICU bed utilization -- The ICU in the global hospital environment -- Alternative staffing models in the ICU -- Governance -- Managing the ICU from afar: telemedicine -- Ethics and palliative care in the intensive care unit -- Intensive talk: delivering bad news and setting goals of care -- Can intensivist performance be measured? -- Complications: never never or never ever -- Controversies: noninvasive ventilation at the end-of-life -- useful or not? -- 4. Post-ICU critical care -- Post-intensive care syndrome -- Outcomes research and reporting -- 5. Genomics of critical care -- Critical care medicine in the era of omics -- 6. Critical care procedures -- Arterial line monitoring and placement -- Bronchoscopy -- Cardiac output measurement -- Cardioversion and defibrillation -- Central venous access -- Chest tube insertion -- Critical care echocardiography -- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation -- Airway management in the critically ill patient -- Endoscopic placement of feeding tubes -- Continuous venovenous hemofiltration -- High-frequency oscillatory ventilation -- Intracranial pressure monitoring -- Lumbar puncture -- Temporary pacemaker insertion and management of CV implantable electrical devices in the ICU -- Paracentesis -- Percutaneous tracheostomy -- Pericardiocentesis -- Pulmonary artery catheterization -- Thoracentesis -- Controversies: early tracheotomy.