Textbook of Critical Care E-Book

by Mitchell P. Fink MD, PhD Vincent MD (Editor), MCCM Moore MD (Editor)

Overview

Comprehensive, concise, and readable, Textbook of Critical Care, 7th Edition, brings you fully up to date with the effective management of critically ill patients, providing the evidence-based guidance you need to overcome a full range of practice challenges. Drs. Jean-Louis Vincent, Edward Abraham, Frederick A. Moore, Patrick Kochanek, and Mitchell P. Fink are joined by other international experts who offer a multidisciplinary approach to critical care, sharing expertise in anesthesia, surgery, pulmonary medicine, and pediatrics. This highly acclaimed text offers ICU clinicians a new understanding of the pathophysiology of critical illness and new therapeutic approaches to critical care. - Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability. - Features a wealth of tables, boxes, algorithms, diagnostic images, and key points that clarify important concepts and streamline complex information for quick reference. - Includes many new chapters on echocardiography, antibiotic stewardship, antiviral agents, coagulation and anti-coagulation, , telemedicine, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), and more. - Offers new coverage of biomarkers, bedside ultrasound, and the management of increasingly complex critically ill patients. - Provides new approaches to sepsis, acute kidney injury, and management of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and other forms of respiratory failure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323461061
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	11/27/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1400
File size:	55 MB
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Table of Contents

- Sudden Deterioration of Neurological Status - Agitation and Delerium - Management of Acute Pain in the Intensive Care Unit - Fever - Very High Systemic Arterial Blood Pressure - Low Systemic Arterial Blood Pressure - Tachycardia and Bradycardia - Arterial Hypoxemia - Acute Respiratory Failure - Pulmonary Edema - Polyuria - Oliguria - Hypernatremia and Hyponatremia - Hyperkalemia and Hypokalemia - Hyperphosphatemia and Hypophosphatemia - Hypomagnesemia - Hypercalcemia and Hypocalcemia - Hypoglycemia - Hyperglycemia - Anemia - Thrombocytopenia - Coagulopathy in the ICU - Jaundice - Gastrointestinal Bleeding - Ascites - Acute Abdominal Pain - Ileus - Diarrhea - Rashes and Fever - Chest Pain - Biochemical or Electrocardiographic Evidence of Acute Myocardial Injury - Point-of-Care Ultrasound - Echocardiography - Cardiovascular Monitoring - Bedside Monitoring of Pulmonary Function - Arterial Blood Gas Interpretation - Tracheal Intubation - Tracheostomy - Mechanical Ventilation - Renal Replacement Therapy - Targeted Temperature Management and Therapeutic Hypothermia - Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (Venovenous and Venoarterial ECMO) - Nutritional Support in Adults - Nutritional Support in Children - Early Ambulation in the ICU - Role of Early Mobilization in the Prevention of ICU-Acquired Weakness - Advanced Bedside Monitoring - Coma - Use of Brain Injury Biomarkers in Critical Care Settings - Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation - Delerium - Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke - Nontraumatic Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage - Seizures in the Critically Ill - Neuromuscular Disorders in the Critically Ill - Traumatic Brain Injury - Spinal Cord Injury - Neuroimaging - Intensive Care After Neurosurgery - Key Issues in Pediatric Neurointensive Care - Patient-Ventilator Interaction - Non-Invasive Ventilation - Weaning From Mechanical Ventilation - Adjunctive Respiratory Therapy - Hyperbaric Oxygen in Critical Care - Imaging of the Chest - Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome - Aspiration Pneumonitis and Pneumonia - Severe Asthma Exacerbation - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - Pulmonary Embolism - Pulmonary Hypertension - Pneumothorax - Community Acquired Pneumonia - Nosocomial Pneumonia - Drowning - Acute Parenchymal Disease in Pediatric Patients - Acute Coronary Syndromes: Therapy - Supraventricular Arrhythmais - Ventricular Arrhythmais - Conduction Disturbances and Cardiac Pacemakers - Myocarditis and Acute Cardiomyopathies - Acquired and Congenital Heart Disease in Children - Pericardial Disease - Emergency Heart Valve Disorders - Infectious Endocarditis - Hypertensive Crisis: Emergency and Urgency - Pathophysiology and Classification of Shock States - Resuscitation From Circulatory Shock - Inotropic Therapy - Mechanical Support in Cardiogenic Shock - Portal Hypertension: Critical Care Considerations - Hepatorenal Syndrome - Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Hepatic Encephalopathy - Fulminant Hepatic Failure - Calculous and Acalculous Cholecystitits - Acute Pancreatitis - Peritonitis and Intraabdominal Infection - Ileus and Mechanical Bowel Obstruction - Toxic Megacolon and Ogilvie's Syndrome - Clinical Assessment of Renal Function - Biomarkers Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) - Metabolic Acidosis and Alkalosis - Water Metabolism - Disorders Of Calcium and Magnesium Metabolism - Fluid and Volume Therapy in the ICU - Fluid and Electrolytes in Pediatrics - Acute Kidney Injury - Urinary Tract Obstruction - Contrast Dye-Induced Acute Knee Injury - Glomerulonephritis - Interstitial Nephritis - Antibiotic Stewardship - Prevention, Control of Nosocomial Infection - Antimicrobial Agents with Primary Activity Against Gram-Negative Bacteria - Antimicrobial Agents with Primary Activity Against Gram-Positive Bacteria - Antimicrobial Agents with Primary Activity Against Obligate Anaerobic Bacteria - Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract - Vascular Catheter-Related Infections - Septic Shock - Sepsis and Multiple Organ System F

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Bridge the gap between medical, surgical, and pediatric intensive care practice with the best-selling reference in the field

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"could be considered the gold standard intensive care medicine reference text"

"This book remains a worldwide standard for English-speaking critical care providers. Content has been updated and quality of presentations is excellent. …this is the most effective multidisciplinary adult and pediatric critical care reference currently available."

- David Dries, MD (University of Minnesota Medical School) for Doody’s Review Services

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