Full Description
This is the first bedside pocket reference ever published in evidence-based Critical Care Medicine. It is designed to act as a complement to and precede the forthcoming, larger shelf reference by Zaloga and Marik on Evidence-Based Critical Care Medicine. Its purpose will be to provide easy access to clinical data which is crucial in therapeutic decision-making. This approach will enable the clinician to quickly review the information which will support or refute an intervention and choose the most appropriate, cost-effective treatment. The analysis of treatment strategies will be presented by organ-systems, and there will be miscellaneous ICU topics (eg: severity of illness scoring systems, nutrition, toxicology, infection) covered. The selection of these topics will be based on the most frequently found and difficult to solve problems in ICU patient management.
Contents
PART ONE / INTRODUCTION INTO CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE / 1.Evidence based Critical Care Medicine / 2.Classic Critical Care Papers / 3.Critical Care Medicine 101 / 4.Housekeeping Guidelines / 5.Admission-Discharge Criteria / 6.ICU Procedures / 7.Chronic Critical Illness / 8.Fluid Resuscitation and volume assessment / 9.Sedation and analgesia / 10.Sepsis / 11.Catheter related blood stream infection / 12.Antibiotics / 13.Fever / PART TWO / RESPIRATORY / 14.Mechanical Ventilation 101 / 15.Non invasive positive pressure ventilation / 16.Weaning (Liberation) / 17.Ventilator associated pneumonia / 18.Community acquired pneumonia / 19.ARDs / 20.Aspiration Pneumonia and Pneumonitis / 21.Deep venous thrombosis-Pulmonary embolism / 22.COPD Exacerbation / 23.Acute Severe Asthma / 24.Pleural Effusions and Atelectasis / CARDIAC / 25.Hypertensive crises / 26.Acute coronory syndromes / 27.ST-Segment Elevation Mycardial Infarction / 28.Arrhythmias / 29.Acute decompensated cardiac failure / 30.Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / GASTROINTESTINAL / 31.Nutrition / 32.Stress-ulcer prophylaxis / 33.Chronic liver failure / 34.Alcoholic hepatitis / 35.Fulminant Hepatic Failure / 36.GI bleeding / 37.Pancreatitis / 38.Diarrhea and constipation / METABOLIC / 39.Stress Hyperglycemia And Glycemic Control / 40.Adrenal failure and CIRCI / 41.Hypo- and Hypercalcemia / 42.Electrolyte disturbances / 43.Acid-base disturbances / 44.Acute renal failure / 45.Rhabdomyolysis / CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM / 46.Ischemic Strokes and Intracerebral Hemmorhage / 47.Delirium / 48.Seizures & Status Epilepticus49.Management of Raised ICP / 50.Subarachnoid hemorrhage / PART 3 / MISCELLANEOUS ICU TOPICS / 51.Anemia and RBC Transfusion / 52.Coagulopathy and FFP transfusions / 53.Thrombocytopenia and platelet transfusions54.Eclampsia / 55.Management issues in the elderly / 56.Management issues in the obese patient / 57.Multi-organ dysfunction syndrome / 58.Therapeutic hypothermia / 59.Toxicology / 60.Alcohol withdrawal syndromes / 61.Serotonin syndrome / 62.Radiology / 63.PRES / 64.End-of-Life Issues / 65.What Defines an Intensive Care Unit? Implications for Organizational Structure / 66.Intra-Hospital Transport / 67.Limiting Errors & Avoiding Litigation / 68.Avoiding theraputic misadventures in the ICU / 69.The "Devils" Medicine Bag / 70.Words of Wisdom
