Egyptian Board Critical Care case studies
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The Egyptian Board in Critical Care Medicine is a national specialty qualification for physicians who have completed training in intensive care and wish to be recognised as consultants in the field. Candidates typically come from anaesthesia, internal medicine, chest, or emergency medicine backgrounds and sit the board after finishing an accredited critical care training programme. The Egyptian Board Critical Care case studies are 5 cases and about 4,361 words.
1Severe ARDS with Elevated Driving Pressure and Patient–Ventilator Dyssynchrony
A 46-year-old man with a BMI of 38 kg/m² is admitted to the ICU with influenza A pneumonia and 3 days of worsening hypoxemia. He is intubated and ventilated in volume-control mode: tidal volume 420 mL (predicted body weight 70 kg), respiratory rate 28/min, PEEP 14 cmH₂O, FiO₂ 0.90.
871 words, about 4 min2Septic Shock from a Catheter-Associated Urinary Source in a Nursing Home Resident
A 74-year-old woman from a nursing home is admitted with 2 days of fever and confusion. She has type 2 diabetes, hypertension and a chronic indwelling urinary catheter.
893 words, about 4 min3Symptomatic Hyponatraemia with Seizure and the Risk of Overcorrection
A 58-year-old woman with treatment-resistant depression is brought in after a witnessed generalised tonic–clonic seizure lasting 90 seconds. She started hydrochlorothiazide 3 weeks ago for hypertension and reports 2 weeks of nausea, poor appetite and drinking large volumes of water.
881 words, about 4 min4Unstable Atrial Fibrillation in a Patient with Severely Reduced Ejection Fraction
A 68-year-old man with ischaemic cardiomyopathy (left ventricular ejection fraction 28%) presents with 6 hours of palpitations and dyspnoea. His regular medications are carvedilol 6.25 mg twice daily, sacubitril–valsartan and spironolactone.
875 words, about 4 min5Tricyclic Antidepressant Overdose with Sodium Channel Blockade
A 22-year-old woman is brought in 90 minutes after ingesting an unknown quantity of her mother's amitriptyline in a suicide attempt. She is drowsy but responds to painful stimulation, with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 12.
841 words, about 4 min