"A comprehensive guide for postgraduate students in Critical Care Medicine. Cases faced by the students in various examinations such as DM (CCM), DrNB (CCM), IFCCM, IDCCM, and EDIC discussed in question-and-answer format. Chapters starting from “How to examine a patient in the examination?”, during the examination, to “Tips & Tricks for the table viva”. Each chapter covering a different case, such as severe asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pulmonary embolism, and septic shock, various neurological and cardiac cases and poisoning and much more, all updated with current evidence up to the point of going to the press. Several new chapters included like Approach to Tropical Infections in the ICU; Acute Coronary Syndrome; Acute Ischemic Stroke; Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage; Meningoencephalitis and Status Epilepticus; Infective Endocarditis; Acute Aortic Emergencies; and Snake and Scorpion Bites."