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By Charles Hinds, FRCP, FRCA, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and Barts and the London NHS Trust, London, UK J. David Watson, BSc(Hons), FRCA, Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School
of Medicine and Dentistry and Homerton University Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK
Description Now in its third edition, 'Intensive Care: A Concise Textbook' continues to provide an excellent introductory text to the practice of
critical care medicine. Extensively revised, expanded and updated, the format of the new edition has been radically altered to make the
text more readable and the information even more accessible. Comprehensive yet concise, the book provides a sound working knowledge of
the discipline, is packed with information and is extensively referenced. Current evidence based guidelines for managing critically ill
patients with complex pathophysiology and multisystem involvement are highlighted throughout.
Audience
Trainees in intensive care medicine
Contents 1 PLANNING, ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT:
Introduction; Levels of care and facilities required to deliver a critical care
service; Designing critical care areas; Management of the critical care service
2 OUTCOME AND COSTS:
Mortality,
long-term survival and quality of life; costs; End-of-life decision-making, withholding and withdrawing treatment; Severity
scoring systems
3 APPLIED CARDIOVASCULAR AND RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY:
Oxygen delivery; Cardiac output; Oxygen
content; Pulmonary ventilation and gas exchange; Mixed venous oxygen tension; Lung volumes; Lung mechanics and work
of breathing; Control of breathing
4 ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION:
Heart rate; Blood
pressure; Pre-load; Cardiac output and myocardial function; Assessment of tissue perfusion and oxygenation
5 SHOCK,
SEPSIS AND MULTIPLE-ORGAN FAILURE:
Definition; Causes; Pathophysiology; Clinical features of shock; Monitoring
and laboratory investigations in shock; Management; Multiple-organ failure; Adjunctive therapy in shock, sepsis and organ
failure; Anaphylactic shock; Pulmonary embolism
6 ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF RESPIRATORY FUNCTION:
Measurement
of lung volumes; Assessing airways obstruction; Maximum mouth pressures; Flow-volume and pressure-volume loops; Measuring
the work of breathing; Non-invasive monitoring of ventilation; Monitoring inspired and expired gas composition; Measurement
of respiratory gas exchange; Blood gas analysis and acid-base disturbances; Determination of oxygen content; In vivo blood
gas measurement; Other indices of pulmonary oxygen transfer and lung function
7 RESPIRATORY SUPPORT:
Negative-pressure
ventilation; Positive-pressure ventilation; Beneficial effects of mechanical ventilation; Indications for mechanical ventilation; Dangers of mechanical ventilation; Institution of invasive respiratory support; Management of patients on ventilators; Tracheal intubation; Tracheostomy
8 RESPIRATORY FAILURE:
Definition; Types, mechanisms and clinical features;
Causes of respiratory failure; Principles of management; Some common causes of respiratory failure
9 MYOCARDIAL ISCHAEMIA,
CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ARRHYTHMIAS:
Acute coronary syndromes; Cardiorespiratory arrest; Postresuscitation
management; Cardiorespiratory arrest associated with special circumstances; Prognosis of cardiorespiratory arrest; Management
of arrhythmias
10 TRAUMA:
Advanced trauma life support and trauma resuscitation; Chest injuries; Burns;
Spinal injuries; Near-drowning; Crush injuries; Fat embolism syndrome; Complications of trauma
11 GENERAL
ASPECTS OF MANAGING CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS:
Fluid and electrolyte balance; Nutritional support; Sedation, analgesia
and muscle relaxation; Prevention of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism; Prevention of stress ulceration; Psychological and behavioural disorders
12 INFECTION IN THE CRITICALLY ILL:
Factors predisposing to infection in
hospitalized patients; Sources and prevention of infection; Nosocomial infections in the critically ill; The rational
use of antibiotics; Antibiotic-associated diarrhoea; Unusual pathogens - diagnosis and treatment; The immunocompromised
patient
13 ACUTE RENAL FAILURE:
Definition, incidence and causes; Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of acute intrinsic
renal failure; Diagnosis and investigations; Clinical course and management; Prognosis of ARF
14 ACUTE LIVER FAILURE:
Types of acute liver failure; Acute liver failure; Acute decompensation of chronic liver disease
15 NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS:
Head injuries and raised intracranial pressure; Acute bacterial meningitis; Encephalitis; Non-traumatic intracranial
haemorrhage; Brain death and irreversible cerebral damage; Organ donation; Status epilepticus; Tetanus; Myasthenia
gravis; Acute inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy; Critical illness polyneuromyopathy
Physiological alterations in pregnancy; Severity scoring systems in the obstetric population; Pre-eclampsia; Acute lung
injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome in obstetric patients; Peripartum cardiomyopathy; Acute coagulopathy in pregnancy
19
POISONING:
Types of poisoning; Diagnosis and assessment; Principles of management; Management of specific poisonings
20
DISTURBANCES OF BODY TEMPERATURE:
Accidental hypothermia; Hyperthermia
21 TRANSPORTING THE CRITICALLY ILL:
Primary transport; Secondary transport; Modes of transport; Equipment for transport; Transport within the hospital; Transport over long distances
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