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Critical Care Pearls: Case-based Discussions is a case-based intensive care medicine reference edited by faculty from the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, and Synergy Plus and Galaxy Hospital, Agra, and carries the endorsement of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM), with forewords from ISCCM leadership. It brings together 51 chapters authored by intensivists from across India and abroad, most of whom teach DM and DrNB Critical Care Medicine, with each chapter written by an expert who routinely manages the exact condition discussed.

Every chapter follows the same structure: a real clinical case vignette opens the discussion, the case is then worked through in a Question-and-Answer sequence that tracks the patient's actual clinical course from presentation to outcome, and the chapter closes with a List of DOs and DON'Ts pairing each recommended action with the specific pitfall to avoid, backed by numbered guideline references.

Structured across 13 sections and 51 chapters, it covers the broad spectrum of conditions seen in a typical Indian intensive care unit — from CNS emergencies, respiratory failure, and cardiovascular shock to acute abdominal disease, infectious disease, endocrine emergencies, poisoning and envenomation, pregnancy-related critical illness, transplant complications, and trauma — alongside conditions particularly relevant to the Indian subcontinent such as snakebite envenomation, heat stress injury, and tropical illnesses, together with contemporary topics such as antimicrobial resistance.

Who This Book Is For:

DM/DrNB, PDCC and fellowship trainees in Critical Care Medicine: a case-based companion for the training years, working through real ICU decision points chapter by chapter.

Postgraduate students of Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine, and practicing intensivists and physicians: a practical, guideline-referenced refresher for ICU rotations and bedside decision-making.

Why This Book Helps:

Structures ICU decision-making around real cases: each chapter mirrors an actual bedside scenario rather than a generic disease review, making the reasoning behind each step in the workup and management explicit.

Speeds guideline-based learning: stepwise management in every chapter is aligned with current international guidelines, condensing evidence into a Question-and-Answer format usable at the point of care.

Prevents common pitfalls: the DOs and DON'Ts box at the end of every chapter names the specific error clinicians make alongside the correct action, reinforcing safe practice.

Covers the Indian ICU case mix specifically: alongside universal topics like ARDS and septic shock, it addresses snakebite envenomation, organophosphorus poisoning, scrub typhus, and other conditions an Indian intensivist regularly encounters.

Reinforces learning digitally: a complimentary infographic accompanies every chapter, accessed through an online QR code, for quick visual revision alongside the text.

Key Features:

51 real-world ICU cases across 13 sections spanning CNS, respiratory, cardiovascular, infectious disease, endocrine, poisoning, obstetric, transplant, renal, malignancy and trauma emergencies.

Structured Question-and-Answer format in every chapter, tracing the case from initial presentation through to outcome.

Comparative differential-diagnosis and drug-dosing tables, plus labeled clinical and radiology figures, built into each chapter.

A List of DOs and DON'Ts closing every chapter, pairing each recommended action with the specific pitfall to avoid.

51 complimentary online infographics, one per chapter, accessed via a QR/registration code for quick revision.