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By
Richard Albert, Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado, Chief, Medical Service, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
Arthur Slutsky
V. Marco Ranieri
Antoni Torres
Jukka Takala
Description
Comprehensive and clinically oriented, this new text helps you provide the highest standard of care for patients in the ICU?in one full-color
volume. An international cast of experts offers in-depth, authoritative guidance on clinical problems from a multitude of perspectives.
Inside, you'll find a user-friendly format with a consistent organization from chapter to chapter for easy reference, and a bonus CD-ROM
containing all of the illustrations from the text for use in PowerPoint slide presentations.
Contents
Section 1. Basic Biology and Critical Care Medicine
Inflammation * Genetics * Biologic Response to Stress * Vascular
Tone * Cell Metabolism and Tissue Hypoxy
Section 2. Practice of Critical Care
ICU Pharmacology,
Including Sedation, Paralysis, Analgesis, Delirium * Antibiotics in the ICU * ID Prophylaxis * Prophylactic Therapy * ICU Scoring Systems
* Hemodynamic Monitoring
Mechanical Ventilation
Modes * Tracheostomy * Monitoring * Patient?ventilation
Interaction * VALI * Assessment for Weaning * VA Pneumonia * Clinical Assessment of the Acutely Unstable Patient * Nursing Issues of
the Critically Ill * Nutritional Support * Withdrawal and Withholding Life Support
Section 3. Pulmonary Problems
Acute
Exacerbations of COPD and Asthma (including VCD) * Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Including Near-Drowning, Vasculitis * Pulmonary
Embolism * Obesity and Chest Wall Problems * Neuromuscular Respiratory Failure, Including Botulism, Guillian-Barre, Tick Paralysis, Myasthenis
Gravis, Organophosphates
Section 4. Cardiovascular Problems
Pathophysiology of Cardiovascular
Failure * Cardica Ischemia/Infarction * Arrhythmias (brady, tachy, pacing) * Hypertensive Emergencies * Acute Cardiovascular Emergencies
* Heart?Lung Interactions
Section 5. Neurologic Problems
Intracranial Pressure and Central
Brain Flow Regulation * Management of Traumatic Brain Injury, Including Secondary Insult, Traumatic Edema (Glasgow Coma Scale) * Management
of Subarachnoid Hemmorhage, Including HHH, Vasospasm * CNS Infection and Vasculitis * Seizure * Management of Spinal Injury * Brain Death
and Management of Donor
Section 6. Renal and Metabolic Problems
Acid Base Disorders * Electrolyte
Disorders * Acute Renal Failure * Hepatorenal Syndrome * Acute Endocrine Disorders * DKA and HONC
Section 7. Gastrointestinal
Problems
GI Bleeding, UGIB and LGIB * Pancreatitis * Fulminant Hepatic Failure * Acute Abdominal Emergencies
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8. Hematologic Problems
Coagulation Overview * Bleeding Disorders * Blood Product Replacement
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9. Infectious Disease Problems
Community-acquired Pneumonia * Pneumonia in the Immunocompromised Patient
Sepsis
* Catheter-related Infections
Section 10. Other Critical Care Problems
Multi-trauma, Including
Peripheral Compartment Syndromes * Burns, Electrical, and Inhalation Injuries * Hypo-hyperthermia * Pregnancy-related Critical Care *
Acute Care of Post-cardiac Surgery Patients * Acute Care of Major Surgery Patients * Alcohol and Drug Ingestions * CO Inhalation * Bioterrorism
and Unusual Critical Care Medicine Conditions
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 752 pages, publication date: JUL-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-02844-8
ISBN-10: 0-323-02844-6
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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