As prepared by Trent Hartshorne, here are the practice written questions from a recent CICM Second Part exam practice session at The Alfred ICU, with recommended reading from LITF.com’s Critical Care Compendium and other FOAM sources:
Q1.
a) What are the hemodynamic implications of managing a patient with severe ARDS?
b) How can these be minimised?
Q3.
a) What are the echo features of severe aortic stenosis?
b) What are the types of severe aortic stenosis?
c) What are the limitations/difficulties of severity assessment on echo specific to ICU patients?
Learn more here:
You can access all the previous practice questions since 2014 here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Ta8IvVaVtc5Il7-kJwj6qKGu54OmifJGRUWCXud8dY/edit
See this link on INTENSIVE for exam resources:
https://intensiveblog.com/resources/#3