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Acute and critical care: time targets, first-line therapy, pitfalls.

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Critical care

Sepsis and septic shock: recognition and the first hours

The definitions, the time-critical bundle elements, fluids, vasopressors and the mistakes that cost the most points.

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Cardiovascular

Acute coronary syndrome: STEMI, NSTEMI and the first-hour decisions

The ECG and troponin logic, the time targets for reperfusion, the drugs to give and the ones you must withhold.

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Renal

Acute kidney injury: staging, cause and what to do first

KDIGO staging, how to separate prerenal, intrinsic and postrenal causes with the bedside and urine findings, and the indications for dialysis.

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Pulmonary

ARDS: definition, lung-protective ventilation and prone positioning

The Berlin criteria and severity bands, the ventilator settings that reduce mortality, and when to use prone positioning and neuromuscular blockade.

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Cardiopulmonary

Acute pulmonary embolism: risk stratification and treatment

How to estimate probability, choose testing, stratify severity, and decide between anticoagulation and reperfusion.

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Printable cheat sheets

Time targets: ACS, stroke and sepsis

The minute counts that acute care exams reward you for knowing.

Shock: hemodynamic patterns and first treatment

The four types of shock, their typical hemodynamic profile and the first-line response.

Pulmonary embolism: quick reference

Testing pathway, severity classes and anticoagulant choices.