American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA), with ABOG serving as the qualifying board for its diplomates · ABA Critical Care Medicine Content Outline, January 2024, and the currently linked, undated CCM examination blueprint; checked 2026-10-09. The assigned workbook label maps to the ABOG pathway into this ABA examination. Supplied primary ABOG evidence establishes that, effective January 1, 2026, ABOG became a qualifying board, verifies examination eligibility, and no longer awards CCM certification; ABA issues certificates and administers continuing certification. The assigned slug is preserved. No newer CCM-specific outline was identified in the live issuer search.

This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.

• ABOG: Critical Care Medicine
• ABA: Critical Care Medicine Exam
• ABA Critical Care Medicine Examination Content Outline, January 2024
• ABA Critical Care Medicine Examination Blueprint
• Brain Trauma Foundation: Guidelines for the Management of Severe TBI, Fourth Edition
• Brain Trauma Foundation: Severe TBI Recommendations
• Hyperglycaemic Crises in Adults With Diabetes: 2024 Consensus Report
• ASH: Diagnosis and Management of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia
• ASH: Diagnosis and Management of HIT Pocket Guide
• American Thoracic Society: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• ATS/ESICM/SCCM: Mechanical Ventilation in Adult Patients With ARDS, 2017
• ATS 2024 Clinical Year in Review
• EXTRIP: Methanol Recommendations
• Surviving Sepsis Campaign Adult Guidelines, 2026
• KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for Acute Kidney Injury, 2012
• KDIGO: Acute Kidney Injury and Acute Kidney Disease
• Resuscitation Council UK: Special Circumstances Guidelines, 2025
• Resuscitation Council UK: Adult Advanced Life Support Guidelines, 2025
• AABB: Updates in Red Blood Cell Transfusion Thresholds
• American Epilepsy Society: Antiseizure Medications, Fourth Edition, April 2024
• SHEA/IDSA: 2017 Clostridium difficile Clinical Practice Guideline
• SHEA/IDSA: 2021 Focused Update on Clostridioides difficile
• WHO: Pre-eclampsia
• Cochrane Handbook, Chapter 15: Interpreting Results
• Cochrane Handbook, Chapter 6: Choosing Effect Measures
• AMA Code of Medical Ethics: Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment
• aesconvulsivestatusepilepticus.pdf
• JCI - Excess placental soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 (sFlt1) may contribute to endothelial dysfunction, hypertension, and proteinuria in preeclampsia
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• Post-resuscitation care Guidelines | Resuscitation Council UK
• IDSA 2014 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
• 3 Conditions to Watch for After Childbirth | ACOG