Recent Advances in Critical Care Medicine 2024

Section 1: Cognitive and Soft Skills

1. Mindfulness-based Interventions in Enhancing the Quality of Life of Critical Care Professionals

2. Soft Skills for Critical Care Professionals: Enhancing Communication

Section 2: Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy

3. Hemodynamic Monitoring: What is New?

4. Microcirculatory or Mitochondrial Resuscitation in Septic Shock

5. Monitoring Right Heart Function during Mechanical Ventilation

6. What is New in Vasopressor Therapy?

7. Clinical Applications of Ventriculoarterial Coupling

Section 3: Artificial Intelligence

8. Artificial Intelligence in Critical Care can Save Lives: A Reality or Fiction?

9. Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Support in Sepsis

10. Ethical and Legal Challenges in the Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Critical Care

Section 4: Sepsis and Infectious Diseases

11. Genomics for Rapid Identification of Pathogens

12. Newer (Lesser Known) Nonfermenter Gram-negative Bacilli in the Intensive Care Unit

13. Hyperferritinemic Sepsis: Diagnosis and Management

14. Enigma of Cytomegalovirus: Whether and When to Treat?

15. Antibiotic-associated Harm in the Critically Ill

16. Tissue Penetration of Antimicrobials: Moving from Therapeutic Drug Monitoring to Model Informed Precision Dosing

17. Antibiotic Drug Delivery Systems and their Applications

18. Nonantibiotic Antibacterial Materials

19. How Can We Make Resistant Bugs Susceptible Again?

Section 5: Neurocritical Care

20. Brain-computer Interface in Critical Care

21. Disorders of Consciousness: Lessons from the Curing Coma Campaign

22. Super-refractory Status Epilepticus: Drugs and Targets

23. Futuristic Intensive Care Units: Can We Avoid Delirium Completely?

Section 6: Drug Therapy

24. The Newer Vaptans: Conivaptan and Lixivaptan

25. Ciprofol and Remimazolam

26. Vernakalant and Other Newer Antiarrhythmic Drugs