# Critical care physiology — reader’s guide

> **Educational work by a pre-medical student — not medical advice.** Not a clinical protocol, prescription, or patient handout, and not for patient care. See [DISCLAIMER](DISCLAIMER.md).

Updated 29 October 2026. Worked ICU and CTICU cases connect physiology, investigations, clinical reasoning and reassessment.

## Read in this order

1. [Start with the main work](CTICU_PROCEDURE_EXAMPLES.md).
2. [Inspect the supporting review record](EVIDENCE_CLASSIFICATION.md).
3. Read the [authorship and review status](AUTHORSHIP_AND_REVIEW.md), then use the [README](README.md) for the full repository contents.

[Open the paired synthetic cases](APPLIED_CASES.md). The shared anesthesia guide provides additional educational context; it is not an implemented controller capability or an approved patient-care protocol.

Explore the [42 ICU topics](APPLIED_CASES.md), [laboratory examples](CLINICAL_LAB_EXAMPLES.md), [pain/airway/ventilation guide](AIRWAY_PAIN_AND_VENTILATION_EXAMPLES.md) and [equipment basics](ICU_EQUIPMENT_BASICS.md). The [evidence classification](EVIDENCE_CLASSIFICATION.md) separates recommendations, general knowledge and context-dependent practice.

## Reading focus

General knowledge, guideline recommendations and case-specific choices are labelled separately.

## Scope

Wholly synthetic cases; no patient-care or clinical-validation claim.

Source interpretation, synthetic examples and implemented software behavior have different evidentiary roles. The supporting review record states what was actually checked.

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