Civetta, Taylor, & Kirby's critical care [electronic resource] / edited by Andrea Gabrielli, A. Joseph Layon, Mihae Yu.
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
c2009.
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| Edition: | 4th ed. |
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Civetta, Taylor, and Kirby's critical care
Critical care |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- National health systems and the place of intensive care medicine: which model?
- Life and death in the ICU: ethical considerations
- Understanding reactions of patients and families
- Breaking bad news to patients
- Informed consent
- Judicial involvement in end-of-life decisions
- Collaborative care: physician and nursing interactions and the foundation of a successful unit
- Clinical decision making
- How to read a medical journal and understand basic statistics
- Quality assurance, safety, and outcomes
- External compliance organizations and measures
- The virtual ICU and telemedicine: computers, electronics, and data management
- Universal precautions: protecting the practitioner
- Intrahospital transport of critically ill patients
- Interhospital transport of critically ill patients
- Invasive pressure monitoring: general principles
- Noninvasive cardiovascular monitoring
- Hemodynamic monitoring: arterial and pulmonary artery catheters
- Monitoring tissue perfusion and oxygenation
- Bedside assessment and monitoring of pulmonary function and power of breathing in the critically ill
- Pulse oximetry and plethysmography
- Capnography
- Echocardiography
- Temperature monitoring
- Blood volume measurements in critical care
- Venous oximetry
- Neurologic monitoring
- Radiographic imaging and bedside ultrasound in the intensive care unit
- Neuroimaging of the critical care patient
- Intensive care unit point-of-care patient
- Clean and aseptic techniques at the bedside
- Vascular cannulation
- Temporary cardiac pacemakers
- Important intensive care procedures
- Interventional radiology in the critical care unit
- Feeding tube placement
- Flexible bronchoscopy
- Airway management
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Anesthesia in the ICU
- Fluids and electrolytes
- Blood gas analysis and acid-base disorders
- Central nervous system
- The lung structure and function
- Cardiovascular system
- Fundamentals of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Renal physiology and its systemic impact
- Gastrointestinal physiology
- Coagulation
- Allergy and immunology
- Molecular biology: genomics and proteonomics
- Gene therapy in critical illness: past applications and future potential
- The host response to injury and critical illness
- Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
- Shock: general
- Cardiogentic shock
- Sepsis and septic shock
- Hemorrhage shock
- Neurogenic shock
- Anaphylactic shock
- Splanchnic flow and resuscitation
- Pharmacologic principles
- Sedation and neuromuscular blockade
- Nutritional issues
- Practical aspects of nutritional support
- Toxicology
- Substance abuse and withdrawal: alcohol, cocaine, opioids and other drugs
- Envenomation
- Perioperative pulmonary function testing and consultation
- Preoperative evaluation of the high-risk surgical patient
- Anesthesia: physiology and postanesthesia problems
- Initial management of the trauma patient
- Secondary and tertiary of the trauma patient
- Surgical and post-surgical bleeding
- Abdominal trauma: nonoperative management and postoperative considerations
- Evaluating the acute abdomen
- The difficult post-operative abdomen
- Critical care of hepatopancreatobiliary surgery patients
- Critical care of the thoracic surgical patient
- Postoperative management of adult cardiovascular surgery patients
- Management of the pediatric cardiac surgical patient
- Vascular surgery in the intensvie care unit
- Neurologic injury: prevention and initial care
- CNS vascular disease
- Orthopedic critical care
- Urologic surgery and trauma
- Facial trauma
- Burn injury: thermal and electrical
- Temperature-related injuries
- Transplantation: an overview of problems and concerns
- Heart transplantation
- Lung transplantation
- Liver transplant
- Pancreatic transplantation
- Renal transplantation
- Critical care aspects of stem cell transplantation
- The obstetric patient: general
- Cardiac disease and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy
- Hemorrhagic and liver disorders of pregnancy
- Acute abdomen and trauma during pregnancy
- Fetal monitoring concerns
- The obese surgical patient in the critical care unit
- The geriatric patient
- The role of antibiotics in the management of serious hospital-acquired infections
- An approach to the febrile ICU patient
- Surgical infections
- Skin wounds and musculoskeletal infection
- Neurolgoic infections
- Infections of the head and neck
- Catheter-related bloodstream infections
- Respiratory infections in the ICU
- Adult gastrointestinal infections in the ICU
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections in the ICU: implications for clinical practice
- Fungal and viral infections
- Infections in the immunocompromised host
- Human immunodeficiency virus in the intensive care unit
- Unusual infections
- Evaluation of chest pain and acute coronary syndrome in the ICU
- Non ST elevation acute coronary syndrome: contemporary management strategies
- ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEM) contemporary management strategies
- Evaluation and management of heart failure
- Cardiac mechanical assist devices
- Valvular heart disease
- Cardiac dysrhythmias
- Pericardial disease
- Acute hypertension management in the ICU
- Heart-lung interactions
- Anatomy of mechanical ventilation
- Noninvasive ventilatory support modes
- Invasive ventilatory support modes
- Bedside interpretation of ventilatory waveforms
- Weaning from mechanical ventilation
- High-frequency ventilation: lessons learned and future directions
- Oxygen therapy and basic respiratory care
- Indications for and management of tracheostomy
- Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Extracorporeal circulation for respiratory or cardiac failure
- Drowning
- Aspiration
- Severe asthma exacerbation
- Acute respiratory failure in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Pulmonary embolism
- Other embolic syndromes (air, fat, amniotic fluid)
- Pleural disease in the intesive care unit
- Massive hemoptysis
- Elevated intracranial pressure
- Altered consciousness and coma in the intensive care unit
- Seizures and status epilepticus
- Neuromuscular disorders
- Behavioral disturbances in the intensive care unit
- ICU discharge criteria and rehabilitation potential for severe brain injury patients
- Upper gastrointestinal bleeding
- Approach to lower gastrointestinal bleeding
- Liver failure: acute and chronic
- Pancreatic disease
- Inflammatory bowel disease and toxic megacolon
- Esophageal disorders
- Gastrointestinal motility disorders
- Mesenteric ischemia
- Acute renal failure
- Renal replacement therapies in the critically ill patient
- Endocrinopathy in the ICU
- Disordered glucose metabolism
- The adrenal gland in critical illness
- Pheochromocytoma
- Thyroid disease in the intensive care unit
- Critical care of autoimmune and connective tissue disorders: rheumatologic diseases in the intensive care unit
- Dermatologic conditions
- Prevention of pressure injuries in the intensive care unit
- Coagulation disorders in the intensive care unit
- Transfusion therapy: when to use it and how to minimize it
- Antithrombotic and thrombolytic therapy
- Hematologic conditions in the ICU
- Oncologic emergencies
- Mass casualty incidents: organizational and triage-management issues that impact critical care
- Bioterrorism
- Emergent pandemic infections and critical care
- Disaster response.