Full Description
This book is a comprehensive guide to critical care medicine for postgraduate medical students.
Presented in a case-based, question and answer format, the text begins with guidance on patient examination in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Each of the following chapters covers a different disorder, from acute severe asthma, pulmonary embolism and septic shock, to traumatic brain injury, acute liver failure and many more.
The book concludes with cases examining out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, brain death and organ donation, as well as end-of-life care in the ICU.
This second edition has been fully revised and updated to provide trainees with the latest advances and knowledge in the field. A number of new topics have been added to this edition including tropical infections, acute coronary syndrome, acute ischemic stroke, spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage, meningoencephalitis and status epilepticus, infective endocarditis, acute aortic emergencies, and snake and scorpion bites.
The text is further enhanced by clinical photographs, illustrations and tables to assist learning.
The previous edition (9789388958554) published in 2019.
Contents
1. How to Examine an ICU Patient in the Examination?
2. Community-acquired Pneumonia
3. Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation, Ventilator-associated Pneumonia, and ICU-acquired Weakness
4. Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
5. Acute Severe Asthma
6. Pulmonary Embolism
7. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
8. Approach to Tropical Infections in the ICU
9. Sepsis and Septic Shock
10. Acute Coronary Syndrome
11. Eclampsia and Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
12. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
13. Acute Ischemic Stroke
14. Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage
15. Meningoencephalitis and Status Epilepticus
16. Traumatic Brain Injury
17. Polytrauma
18. Snake and Scorpion Bites
19. Infective Endocarditis
20. Acute Aortic Emergencies
21. Hyponatremia
22. Guillain-Barre Syndrome
23. Approach to a Patient with Unknown Poisoning
24. Organophosphorus Poisoning
25. Acute Kidney Injury
26. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
28. Acute Heart Failure and Cardiogenic Shock
29. Severe Acute Pancreatitis
30. Acute Liver Failure
31. Diabetic Ketoacidosis
32. Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest, Brain Death, and Organ Donation
33. End-of-life Care in Intensive Care Unit
34. Tips and Tricks for the Table Viva Voce
