CICM Fellowship Study Notes

Free preview study notes for CICM Fellowship. Each note is mapped to a specific learning objective from the official CICM curriculum. The full set of CICM Fellowship content (study notes, MCQs, AI-graded written and viva practice, and a curriculum tracker) is available inside Primex.

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Cardiovascular intensive care

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Respiratory failure and ventilation

• Mechanical Ventilation: Modes, Mechanics, and Dyssynchrony

Sepsis and infection

• Invasive Fungal Infections in Critical Care: Diagnosis and Antifungal Management

Neurology and neurosurgical critical care

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Renal, metabolic and toxicology

• Rhabdomyolysis and Crush Syndrome: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management

Haematology and oncology

• CICM Final: ICU Management of Complications of Haematological Malignancy
• Oncological Emergencies in the ICU

Trauma, retrieval and paediatric ICU

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Pharmacology, sedation and procedures

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• ICU delirium prevention and management, CAM-ICU, ICDSC, ABCDEF bundle, dexmedetomidine evidence
• ECMO drug dosing, circuit sequestration, increased Vd, dosing strategies for fentanyl, propofol and antimicrobials
• NMB monitoring and complications, train-of-four, agent choice, ACURASYS/ROSE, ICU-acquired weakness
• Therapeutic drug monitoring in ICU, vancomycin AUC24/MIC, aminoglycoside levels, phenytoin and immunosuppressants
• Withdrawal syndromes in ICU, alcohol (CIWA-Ar), opioid, benzodiazepine taper and iatrogenic rebound