EDIC Viva Ready-Reckoner

EDIC Viva Ready-Reckoner

Critical Care Equations, Trend Monitoring & ESICM Scoring Systems

Most candidates know the medicine but freeze on the numbers — the equation they can’t reconstruct under pressure, the trend they read as a snapshot instead of a trajectory, the score they can’t defend when the examiner asks “why that one?” This Ready-Reckoner is built to close exactly those gaps: fast, structured, examiner-ready recall for the EDIC viva.

What’s inside

• Core Equations Vault — every high-yield formula across respiratory, cardiovascular, renal, acid-base, nutrition, pharmacokinetics, neurology, sepsis, coagulation, endocrine, toxicology, and biostatistics
• One consistent recall format — each entry gives the formula or pattern, a one-line logic, a worked bedside example, the exact examiner exchange, a deeper follow-up probe, and the common mistake to avoid
• Trend Monitoring & Pattern Recognition — read trajectories not snapshots across respiratory, hemodynamic, perfusion, neuro, renal, coagulation, infection, nutritional, and weaning trends — plus multi-organ trend traps
• All ESICM Scoring Systems — every major severity, organ-specific, sepsis, nutrition, frailty, sedation, delirium, trauma, weaning, ECMO, and prognostic score
• “Which score, and why” comparative table — the classic viva trap resolved in a single side-by-side reference
• 34 focused chapters across three parts — organised for rapid last-minute revision and drill-down under pressure

Original explanatory content only — no confidential EDIC exam material reproduced.

By Dr. Gunadhar Padhi — Chief Intensivist, MD, IDCCM, FCCCM, ECMO (Paris); author of the EDIC preparation series.