A manual that provides practical information on various aspects of intensive care. It enables the user to manage a patient in an ICU setting effectively. It is suitable for the trainees and practitioners in intensive care, nurses and other allied health professionals in helping to deal with a broad spectrum of conditions encountered in the ICU.
Salient Features * Represents a consensus of practice/standard of care in Australia/NZ, UK and Europe. * Treatment guidelines are authoritative since they follow those that are Recommended/laid down by Professional societies. * Comprehensive, covers all important areas of intensive care medicine. * Provides a single resource that will cover everything that a user will need to know during the course of an ICU rotation. No need to refer to a larger textbook. * Information on management and treatment of conditions is balanced by pathophysiological and pharmacological background. This is not just a "cook book" of procedures. It provides all of the essential information for candidates wishing to pass professional examinations. * Covers the paediatric as well as the adult patient in the ICU. * Provides quick access and practical guidance for all clinical scenarios. * Extensive list of key references most taken from the last three years. * Helps trainees and practitioners prepare for case conference/presentations.
Table of Contents * Chapter 1 Design and organization of intensive care units * Chapter 2 Outreach * Chapter 3 Severity of Illness and Likely Outcome from Critical Illness * Chapter 4 Transport of the Critically Ill * Chapter 5 Physiotherapy in Intensive Care * Chapter 6 Critical Care Nursing * Chapter 7 Ethics in Intensive Care * Chapter 8 Common problems after ICU * Chapter 9 Clinical Information Systems * Chapter 10 Clinical Trials in Critical Care * Chapter 11 Overview of Shock * Chapter 12 Haemodynamic Monitoring * Chapter 13 Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome * Chapter 14 Monitoring Oxygenation * Chapter 15 Lactic Acidosis * Chapter 16 Cardiovascular disease * Chapter 17 Adult Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation * Chapter 18 Management of cardiac arrhythmias * Chapter 19 Cardiac pacing and implantable cardioverter defibrillators * Chapter 20 Acute Heart Failure * Chapter 21 Valvular and Congenital Heart Disease * Chapter 22 Postoperative Cardiac Intensive Care * Chapter 23 Echocardiography in Intensive Care * Chapter 24 Oxygen Therapy * Chapter 25 Airway Management and Acute Upper Airway Obstruction * Chapter 26 Acute Respiratory Failure in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease * Chapter 27 Mechanical Ventilatio * Chapter 28 Humidification and Inhalation Therapy * Chapter 29 The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) * Chapter 30 Pulmonary Embolism * Chapter 31 Severe Acute Asthma * Chapter 32 Peumonia * Chapter 33 Non-Invasive Ventilation * Chapter 34 Respiratory Monitoring * Chapter 35 Imaging the Chest * Chapter 36 Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding * Chapter 37 Severe Acute Pancreatitis * Chapter 38 Hepatic Failure * Chapter 39 Abdominal Surgical Catastrophes * Chapter 40 Acute Renal Failure * Chapter 41 Renal Replacement Therapy * Chapter 42 Disorders of Consciousness * Chzpter 43 Status Epilecticus * Chapter 44. Acute Cerebrovascular Complications * Chapter 45 Cerebral Protection * Chapter 46 Brain Death * Chapter 47.Meningitis and Encephalomyelitis * Chapter 48 Tetanus * Chapter 49 Neuromuscular disorders in intensive care * Chapter 50 Diabetic Emergencies * Chapter 51 Diabetes Insipidus and Other Polyuric Syndromes * Chapter 52 Thyroid Emergencies * Chapter 53 Adrenocortical Insufficiency in Critical Illness * Chapter 54 Acute Calcium Disorders * Chapter 55 Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia * Chapter 56 General obstetric emergencies in the ICU * Chapter 57 Severe pre-existing disease in pregnancy * Chapter 58 Anaphylaxis * Chapter 59 Host defence mechanisms and immunodeficiency disorders * Chapter 60 HIV and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome * Chapter 61 Severe Sepsis * Chapter 62 Nosocomial Infection * Chapter 63.Severe Soft-Tissue Infections * Chapter 64 Principles of Antibiotic Use * Chapter 65 Tropical Diseases * Chapter 66 Severe and Multiple Trauma * Chapter 67 Severe Head Injuries * Chapter 68 Maxillofacial and Upper Airway Injuries * Chapter 69 Chest Injuries * Chapter 70 Spinal Injuries * Chapter 71 Abdominal and Pelvic Injuries * Chapter 72 Near Drowning * Chapter 73 Burns * Chapter 74 Thermal disorders * Chapter 75 Electrical safety and injuries * Chapter 76 Envenomation * Chapter 77 Blast Injury and Gunshot Wounds:Pathophysiology * Chapter 78 Biochemical Terrorism * Chapter 79 Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Drug Monitoring in Critical Illness * Chapter 80 Management of acute poisoning * Chapter 81 Sedation, analgesia and muscle relaxation in the intensive care unit * Chapter 82 Inotropes and Vasopressors * Chapter 83 Vasodilators and Antihypertensives * Chapter 84 Acid-Base Balance and Disorders * Chapter 85 Fluid and Electrolyte Therapy * Chapter 86 Metabolic response to injury and infection * Chapter 87 Enternal and Parenteral Nutruition * Chapter 88 Blood Transfusion * Chapter 89. Colloids and blood products * Chapter 90 Therapeutic plasma exchange and intravenous immunoglobulinimmunomodulatory therapy * Chapter 91 Haemostatic Failure * Chapter 92 Haematological Malignancies * Chapter 93 Organ Donation * Chapter 94 Liver Transplantation * Chapter 95 Heart and Lung Transplantation * Chapter 96 The critically ill child * Chapter 97 Upper Respiratory Tract Obstruction in Children * Chapter 98 Acute Respiratory Failure in Children * Chapter 99 Paediatric Fluid and Electrolyte Therapy * Chapter 100 Sedation and Analgesia in Children * Chapter 101 Shock and cardiac disease in children * Chapter 102 Neurological emergencies in children * Chapter 103 Paediatric Trauma * Chapter 104 Equipment for Paediatric Intensive Care * Chapter 105 Paediatric poisoning * Chapter 106 Paediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
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