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Overview
Doctors working for the first time in an intensive care unit are faced with a variety of extremely ill and technically demanding patients. Very often they are exposed to situations for which they have not been properly prepared. Although most disciplines and professional examinations now demand some understanding of intensive care, opportunities for learning intensive care medicine are limited, with few courses available. Critical Care Cases presents a cross section of common problems seen in intensive care, presented by experienced teachers working in this field. Each topic begins with a real life case history, complete with examination findings, biochemistry, and blood gases. Readers are then given the opportunity to consider how they would manage the situation, before turning over to find a full discussion and recommendations from an expert in the field. The book covers all the common intensive care problems, including respiratory failure, trauma, infection, and neurological disorders, and will provide a stimulating and thought provoking text for anyone preparing to work in intensive care medicine.
The book contains no figures.
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Reviewer: David J. Dries, MD(University of Minnesota Medical School)Description: This is the first edition of a softbound collection of briefly presented critical care cases.
Purpose: Provided is a collection of clinical scenarios, each discussed by an expert with provision of selected references.
Audience: The critical care teacher and student may benefit from this work. Editors and authors represent multidisciplinary intensivists from the United Kingdom.
Features: Approximately 50 cases are described in nine parts of this volume. Cases are divided in the table of contents by organ system. In addition, specific emphasis is paid to obstetric and pediatric problems, withdrawal of therapy, common infectious problems in the intensive care unit, and trauma. Each case begins with a succinct discussion of the clinical situation. Laboratory data, radiographic findings, and electrocardiographic data are presented in rows and columns of free text. There are no illustrations. Each case presentation is closed with a small number of references from key journals. References date to within one year of publication and represent original work. This case collection concludes with an index allowing access to the content of this handbook.
Assessment: The teacher and student in critical care medicine may benefit from this pocket-sized handbook. The former will find a stimulus for bedside discussion. The latter will find a quick introduction to a wide variety of intensive care unit issues.
David J. Dries
This is the first edition of a softbound collection of briefly presented critical care cases. "Provided is a collection of clinical scenarios, each discussed by an expert with provision of selected references. "The critical care teacher and student may benefit from this work. Editors and authors represent multidisciplinary intensivists from the United Kingdom. "Approximately 50 cases are described in nine parts of this volume. Cases are divided in the table of contents by organ system. In addition, specific emphasis is paid to obstetric and pediatric problems, withdrawal of therapy, common infectious problems in the intensive care unit, and trauma. Each case begins with a succinct discussion of the clinical situation. Laboratory data, radiographic findings, and electrocardiographic data are presented in rows and columns of free text. There are no illustrations. Each case presentation is closed with a small number of references from key journals. References date to within one year of publication and represent original work. This case collection concludes with an index allowing access to the content of this handbook. "The teacher and student in critical care medicine may benefit from this pocket-sized handbook. The former will find a stimulus for bedside discussion. The latter will find a quick introduction to a wide variety of intensive care unit issues.3 Stars from Doody
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Table of Contents
Preface List of abbreviations Part 1 - Respiratory Acute Respiratory failure Chronic respiratory failure Asthma Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
Ventilator management Ventilator management 2
Weaning Part 2 - Trauma Multiple trauma Oxygen delivery and trauma Transportation of the criticlaly ill Aeromedical evacuation Electrocution and burns Hypothermia Carbon monoxide poisoning The high risk surgical case Part 3 - Cardiovascular Hypovolaemia Myocardial infarction Aortic dissection Right ventricular infarction Endocartitis Heart block Part 4 - Infection Tuberculosis Human immunodeficiency virus (H.I.V.)
Leptospirosis Legionnaires' disease Malaria Acute pancreatitis Sepsis Toxic shock syndrome Part 5 - Neurological disorder Head injury The post-operative neurosurgical case Guillain-Barre syndrome Critical care neuropathy Part 6 - Metabolic Hyponatraemia Metabolic acidosis Metabolic acidosis 2
Diabetic ketoacidosis Part 7 - Renal, hepatic, endocrine Rhabdomyolysis Prevention of acute renal failure (ARF)
Renal failure Phaecromocytoma Hepatic failure Part 8 - Obstetric and paediatrics Haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets (HELLP)
Thrombocytopaenia
(PET)
Meningococcal sepsis Croup Respiratory failure in the infant Part 9 - Ethics Withdrawal of treatment Index