Full Description
The second edition of this highly successful book includes up-to-date notes on the step-wise management of clinical emergencies encountered in everyday intensive care units (ICU). Each thoroughly revised chapter provides concise information for point-of-care treatment, making it a practical guide clinicians can refer to on a daily basis at work or while traveling, or just to expand their knowledge.
Volume 1 of ICU Protocols covers topics in pulmonology, cardiology, neurology, gastroenterology, nephrology and infectious diseases. The endocrine and metobolic systems, oncology, trauma, toxicology, envenomation and thermodysregulation, obstetrics, and perioperative care are covered in the second volume of ICU Protocols.
This two-volume book is a must-read for intensivists, critical care specialists, junior trainees and residents working in ICUs. It is also relevant as course material for workshops on critical care, and essential for all hospital-based libraries.
"This book provides junior trainees with an introduction to the management of problems common to the critical care unit." David J Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2013, for the first edition of ICU Protocols.
Contents
Part I: Respiratory System.- Airway Management.- Acute Respiratory Failure.- Noninvasive Positive-Pressure Ventilation.- High Flow Nasal Canula (HFNC).- Basic Mechanical Ventilation.- Mechanical Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- Management of Refractory hypoxemia in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- Mechanical Ventilation in Obstructive Airway Diseases.- Weaning.- Massive Hemoptysis.- Pulmonary Thromboembolism.- Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia.- Pleural Diseases.- Sleep-Disordered Breathing.- Oxygen Therapy.- Pulse Oximetry and Capnography.- Part-II: Cardiovascular System.- Hemodynamic Monitoring.- Echocardiography.- Fluid Therapy, Vasopressors, and Inotropes.- Cardiorespiratory Arrest.- Cardiogenic Shock.- Acute Heart Failure.- Cardiac arrhythmias.- Acute Coronary Syndromes.- Hypertensive Urgencies and Emergencies.- Part III: Nervous System.- Acute Ischemic Stroke.- Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage.- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- Status Epilepticus.- Acute Flaccid Paralysis.- Coma.- Intracranial Pressure Monitoring and Management.- Acute Febrile Encephalopathy.- Sedation and Analgesia.- Brain Death.- Part IV: Gastrointestinal System.- Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Acute Diarrhea.- Acute Abdominal Distension.- Intra-abdominal Hypertension.- Acute Pancreatitis.- Acute Liver Failure.- Acute Decompensation in Chronic Liver Failure.- Nutrition Support.- Part V: Renal System: Acute Kidney Injury.- Renal Replacement Therapy.- Managing a Patient on Dialysis.- Drug Dosing in Renal Failure in ICU.- Part VI: Infection Diseases.- General Measures of Infection Control.- Antibiotic Stewardship.- Septic Shock.- Severe Tropical Infections.- New-Onset Fever.- Fungal Infections.- Infections in the Immunocompromised Host.- Central line related blood stream infections (CRBSI).- Antibiotic Pearls : A case based discussion.- Hyponatremia.- Hypernatremia
