Critical care medicine : the essentials /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Wollters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
[2010]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Hemodynamics
- Hemodynamic monitoring
- Support of the failing circulation
- Arrhythmias, pacing, and cardioversion
- Respiratory monitoring
- Airway intubation
- Indications and options for mechanical ventilation
- Practical problems and complications of mechanical ventilation
- Positive end-expiratory and continuous positive airway pressure
- Weaning and discontinuation of mechanical ventilation
- Intensive care unit imaging
- Acid-base disorders
- Fluid and electrolyte disorders
- Blood conservation and transfusion
- Pharmacotherapy
- Nutritional assessment and support
- Analgesia, sedation, and therapeutic paralysis
- General supportive care
- Quality improvement and cost control
- Cardiopulmonary arrest
- Acute coronary syndromes
- Hypertensive emergencies
- Venous thromboembolism
- Oxygenation failure, ARDS, and acute lung injury
- Ventilatory failure
- ICU infections
- Severe sepsis
- Thermal disorders
- Acute kidney injury and renal replacement therapy
- Clotting and bleeding disorders and anticoagulation therapy
- Hepatic failure
- Endocrine emergencies
- Drug overdose and poisoning
- Neurological emergencies
- Chest trauma
- Acute abdomen
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Burns and inhalational injury.