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CRITICAL CARE: JUST THE FACTS
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All the essentials of critical care in an instant!
This concise, yet comprehensive review is the perfect tool to prepare for in-service or licensing exams, for re-certification, or for use as a clinical refresher. Its highly efficient format conveniently condenses and simplifies the most important content, for maximum yield and comprehension-an especially important benefit for facilitating bedside diagnosis in critical care medicine.
FEATURES
- Compact review of key board-type material for specialization in critical care medicine
- Trusted insights from a writing team of top-name academics and clinicians from one of the country's preeminent critical care divisions
- Standardized, bulleted format emphasizes key points of epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, differential diagnosis, diagnosis, procedures and treatment, prognosis, plus references
- Highlights and summarizes key concepts to assure quick absorption of the material and reinforce your understanding of even the most difficult topics
- Logical chapter organization, arranged by system (cardiology, pulmonary system...) and illness (trauma, burns, poisoning…) to help focus your study and provide quick access to subjects
| Author | HALL |
|---|---|
| Table Of Content | 1 Assessment of the Critically Ill Patient 2 Airway Management 3 Resuscitation 4 Fluid Therapy 5 Pain Management 6 Sedation Management in the ICU 7 Neuromuscular Blockade 8 Monitoring the Cardiovascular System 9 Monitoring the Respiratory System 10 Assessment of Severity of Illness 11 Pulmonary Artery Catheter 12 Nutrition in the Critically Ill 13 An Approach to Shock 14 Ventricular Dysfunction in Critical Illness 15 Rhythm Disturbances in the ICU 16 Noninvasive Assessment of Cardiac Output 17 Interpretation of Hemodynamic Waveforms 18 Myocardial Ischemia 19 Echocardiography in the Critically Ill Patient 20 Acute Right Heart Syndromes 21 Pulmonary Embolism: Thrombus, Fat, Air, and Amniotic Fluid 22 Pericardial Disease 23 Cardiovascular Diseases 24 Aortic Dissection 25 Mechanical Circulatory Assist Devices 26 Hypertensive Encephalopathy and Hypertensive Emergencies27 Pathophysiology of Acute Respiratory Faillure 28 Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation 29 Common Modes of Mechanical Ventilation 30 Managing the Ventilated Patient 31 Responding to Crises in the Ventilated Patient 32 Using Respiractory Waveforms to Adjust Ventilator Settings 33 Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation 34 Ventilator-induced Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome 35 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome 36 Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation 37 Acute-on-Chronic Respiratory Failure 38 Status Asthmaticus 39 Hemoptysis and Pulmonary Hemmorrhage 40 Restrictive Diseases of the Respiratory System 41 Sleep Disordered Breathing 42 Inhalation Injuries 43 Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock 44 Early Goal-Directed Therapy for Sepsis 45 Drotrecogin alfa (activated) 46 Approach to Sepsis of Unknown Etiology 47 Empiric Antibiotic Selection in the Critical Care Setting 48 Neutropenic Patients 49 AIDS in the ICU 50 Endocarditis 51 Infectious Complications of Intravenous Devices 52 Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia 53 Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia 54 Fungal Infections in the ICU 55 Central Nervous System Infections 56 Viral Encephalitis 57 Life-Threatening Infections of the Head and Neck 58 Soft Tissue Infections 59 Urinary System Infections 60 Gastrointestinal Infections 61 Severe Malaria 62 Tetanus 63 Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers 64 Anthrax and Smallpox 65 SARS 66 Influenza 67 Plague: The Black Death 68 Botulism 69 Cerebrovascular Accident 70 CNS Hemorrhage 71 Anoxic Encephalopathy 72 Therapeutic Hypothermia 73 Status Epilepticus 74 Acute Spinal Cord Compression 75 Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit 76 Neuromuscular Weakness in the ICU 77 Head Trauma 78 Coma and Persistent Vegetative State 79 Brain Death 80 Anemia, Transfusion, Massive Transfusion 81 Sickle Cell Disease 82 Bleeding Disorders in the ICU 83 Thrombolytic Therapy 84 Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura 85 Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation 86 Thrombocytopenia in Critically Ill Patients 87 Plasmapheresis in the ICU 88 Acute Leukemia 89 Superior Vena Cava Syndrome 90 Bone Marrow Transplantation 91 Toxicities of Chemotherapy 92 Radiation Pneumonitis 93 Acute Renal Failure 94 Renal Replacement Therapy in the ICU 95 Severe Electrolyte Disorders 96 Acid-Base Balance 97 Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Adults 98 Intensive Insulin Therapy in the Critically Ill 99 Thyroid Disease 100 Adrenal Insufficiency 101 Rhabdomyolysis 102 Upper GI Hemorrhage 103 Lower GI Hemorrhage 104 Acute Hepatic Failure 105 Chronic Liver Disease 106 Bleeding Esophageal Varices and TIPS 107 Acute Pancreatitis 108 Mesenteric Ischemia 109 Abdominal Compartment Syndrome 110 Inflammatory Bowel Disease 111 Acute Abdomen 112 Complicatons of Solid Organ Transplantation 113 Care of the Multi-System Trauma Patient 114 Spine Injuries 115 Torso Trauma 116 Pelvic and Extremity Trauma 117 Electrical Trauma 118 Burns 119 Care of the Post-Cardiac Surgery Patient 120 Pregnancy in the ICU 121 Rheumatology in the ICU 122 Dermatology in the ICU 123 Toxicology in Adults 124 Chemical Weapons 125 Anaphylaxis 126 Hypothermia 127 Severe Hyperthermia 128 Near Drowning 129 Carbon Monoxide Intoxication 130 Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy 131 Acute Alcohol Withdrawal 132 Central Venous Catheter 133 Pulmonary Artery Catheter Insertion 134 Thoracentesis 135 Pericardiocentesis 136 Emergent Surgical Airway 137 Infection Control In the ICU 138 Transporting the Critically Ill 139 The eICU 140 Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapy and Administering Palliative Carer |
| Publish Date | 26 Apr 2007 |
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