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An Illustrated Colour Text
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By
Michael Avidan, MBBCh, FCA, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery, Division Chief, CT Anesthesiology and CT Intensive Care, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
Kara Barnett, MD, Resident in Anesthesiology and Critical Care, The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Laureen Hill, MD, MBA, Vice Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology; Associate Professor, Anesthesiology and CT Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
Lara Hopley, MBBCh, DA(SA), FCA(SA), Senior Clinical Lecturer, Department of Anaesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of
Auckland; Consultant Anaesthetist, Division of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
Nicola Jones, MD, Infectious Disease Physician, Nuffield Department of Clinical and Laboratory Sciences, Department of Microbiology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Johan van Schalkwyk, MB, BCh, FCP(SA)(Critical Care), Perioperative Physician, Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Auckland District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand
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Description
This book is an accessible and highly illustrated introduction to intensive care medicine, suitable for junior doctors, medical students and nurses.
Audience
Junior doctors rotating through ICU
Medical students
ICU nurses
Contents
INTRODUCTION * The history of intensive care * What is intensive care?
SAFETY AND QUALITY IN THE ICU * Evidence-based intensive
care * Critical care transport * Drug interactions
EVALUATION OF THE ICU PATIENT * Clinical excellence * Monitoring in the ICU
ICU
PROCEDURES The airway in the ICU * Vascular access in the ICU * Fibreoptic bronchoscopy in the ICU * Cerebrospinal fluid, lumbar puncture
and lumbar drain
ORGAN SUPPORT * Mechanical ventilation * Renal replacement therapy * Mechanical circulatory support
HOMEOSTASIS
* Circulation * Oxygen delivery * ICU acid?basics * Carbon dioxide * Thermal disorders
FOOD, SALT AND FLUIDS * Feeding and starving
in the ICU * Electrolyte abnormalities * Fluid therapy in the ICU * Blood and blood components
ORGAN SYSTEMS: CENTRAL NERVOUS
SYSTEM * Neurological assessment * Central nervous system injury * Weakness in the ICU * Seizures * Altered mental states * Analgesia
in the ICU * ICU sedation * Organ donation
ORGAN SYSTEMS: CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM * Monitoring the cardiovascular system * Ischaemic
heart disease * Heart failure in the ICU * Arrhythmia * Pacing * Cardiac surgery * Pulmonary hypertension * Valvular and congenital heart
disease
ORGAN SYSTEMS: RESPIRATORY * Respiratory failure * Asthma * Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease * The ICU chest X-ray
ORGAN
SYSTEMS: GASTROINTESTINAL/RENAL * Renal failure * Gastrointestinal bleeding * Gastrointestinal motility disorders * Cholecystitis/pancreatitis
* Liver failure
ORGAN SYSTEMS: ENDOCRINE * Endocrine function in the ICU * Diabetes mellitus in the ICU * Endocrine emergencies
HAEMATOLOGICAL
* Clotting and bleeding: a delicate balance * Thrombosis in the ICU * Bleeding in the ICU
INFECTION * Prevention and treatment
of infections * Sepsis and septic shock* Central nervous system infection * Pneumonia * Infections associated with prosthetic material
in the ICU * The immunocompromised patient in critical care * Tropical medicine * Clever bugs and defunct drugs
SPECIAL TOPICS
* Inflammation * Burns * Obstetric critical care * Toxicity: poisonings and overdoses * Deliberate attacks: chemicals, radiation and
bioterrorism * Advanced cardiac life support * Ethics: limiting and withdrawing treatment * Trauma
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 208 pages, publication date: NOV-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-10060-4
ISBN-10: 0-443-10060-8
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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