Pediatric Critical Care: Text and Study Guide

Pediatric Critical Care: Text and Study Guide

Pediatric Critical Care: Text and Study Guide

Pediatric Critical Care: Text and Study Guide

eBook2nd ed. 2021 (2nd ed. 2021)

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Overview

This extensively updated textbook is a comprehensive study guide that covers pediatric critical care principles and specific disease entities commonly encountered by the pediatric critical care medicine (PCCM) practitioner. Pathophysiologic aspects unique to the pediatric patient are emphasized. The first edition has become a highly utilized text for pediatric critical care fellows. The second edition will prove even more valuable to the fellow in-training and indeed to any clinical pediatric intensivist. In addition to updating the chapters from the previous edition, there are new chapters on topics such as central nervous structure and function, palliative care, child abuse and practical biostatistics. 

Pediatric Critical Care: Text and Study Guide is an invaluable clinically focused resource for PCCM practitioners.  Allowing for concise reading on specific topics, this book acts as both text and study guide covering advanced physiology, pathophysiology, diagnostic considerations and treatment approaches that should be mastered by the higher level PCCM practitioner.

The large number of illustrations complements the text in each chapter that also includes key references and case-orientated questions that help reinforce important ideas learned in the chapter.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783030533632
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date: 03/15/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 530,001
File size: 97 MB
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About the Author

Steven E. Lucking is Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at the Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital in Hershey, PA. He has special interests in brain injury, shock, bronchoscopy, outcomes evaluation and research.

Frank A. Maffei is Professor of Pediatrics at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. He is the Chair of Pediatrics and Division Chief of Pediatric Critical Care at Geisinger’s Janet Weis Children's Hospital in Danville, PA.  His special interests include life-threatening asthma, hemodynamic monitoring, shock, traumatic brain injury and child abuse.

Robert F. Tamburro is Professor of Pediatrics at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. He is an Intensivist in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care and the Division Chief of Pediatric Palliative Care at Geisinger’s Janet Weis Children's Hospital in Danville, PA.  He has special interests in oncologic critical care, clinical research, care of the medically complex child and pediatric palliative care. 

Arno L. Zaritsky is Professor of Pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School. He was the Senior Vice President for Clinical Services at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, VA. He has special interests in resuscitation, sepsis, patient safety and quality improvement.

Table of Contents

Part I: Essential Physiologic Principles.- Genomics and Genetic Predisposition to Critical Illness in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.- Oxygen Delivery and Oxygen Consumption in Pediatric Critical Care.- Endothelial Interactions and Coagulation.- The Inflammatory Response.- Nutrition in Critical Illness.- Pharmacology.- Part II: Respiratory.- Pulmonary Structure and Function.- Fundamentals of Gas Exchange and the Assessment of Oxygenation and Ventilation.- Upper Airway Obstruction.- Severe Asthma.- Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- Conventional Mechanical Ventilation.- Non-conventional Mechanical Ventilation.- Part III: Cardiovascular.- Hemodynamics.- Regional Circulations.- Assessment of Cardiovascular Function.- Circulatory Failure/Shock.- Disorders of Cardiac Rhythm.- Postoperative Cardiac Care.- Cardiovascular Agents.- Mechanical and Electrical Myocardial Support.- Part IV: Central and Peripheral Nervous System.- Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems:  Development, Structure and Function.- Physiology of Skeletal Muscle and the Neuromuscular Junction.- Assessment of Neurologic Function.- Cerebral Resuscitation and Traumatic and Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury.- Neurological Diseases in Pediatric Critical Care.- Sedation and Analgesia.- Neuromuscular Blockade.- Part V: Renal and Electrolyte.- Overview, Structure and Function of the Nephron.- Fluid/Electrolyte/Acid–Base Abnormalities.- Acute Kidney Injury.- Renal Replacement Therapies.- Part VI: Infectious Disease.- Acute Pulmonary Infections.- Sepsis.- Overwhelming Infections in Pediatric Critical Care.- Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome.- Healthcare-Associated Infections.- Part VII: Hematology.- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation.- Oncological Critical Care: Considerations in Children.- Care of the Critically Ill Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Patient.- Transfusion Medicine.- Part VIII: Gastrointestinal.- Acute Liver Injury and Failure in Children.- Part IX: Endocrine and Metabolic.- Critical Care Endocrinology.- Metabolic Crises.- Part X: Special Topics and Populations.- Trauma/Burn.- Toxicology for the Pediatric Intensivist.- The Approach to the Critically Ill Infant.- Child Abuse.- Palliative Care in Pediatric Critical Care.- Outcome Based Clinical Decision-Making in Pediatric Critical Illness.- Biostatistics and Evaluating Published Studies.
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