Table of Contents
to Critical Care Medicine.- Evidence-Based Critical Care.- Classic Critical Care Papers.- Critical Care Medicine 101.- House Officers’ Guideline 1: Housekeeping.- Admission–Discharge Criteria.- House Officers’ Guidelines 2: Procedures.- Chronic Critical Illness.- Fluid Resuscitation and Volume Assessment.- Sedation and Analgesia.- Sepsis.- Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection.- Antibiotics.- Fever.- Respiratory.- Mechanical Ventilation 101.- Non-invasive Positive-Pressure Ventilation.- Weaning (Liberation).- Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia.- Community-Acquired Pneumonia.- Ards.- Aspiration Pneumonia and Pneumonitis.- Deep Venous Thrombosis–Pulmonary Embolism.- COPD Exacerbation.- Acute Severe Asthma.- Pleural Effusions and Atelectasis.- Cardiac.- Hypertensive Crises.- Acute Coronary Syndromes.- ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction.- Arrhythmias.- Acute Decompensated Cardiac Failure.- Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy.- Gastrointestinal.- Nutrition.- Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis.- Chronic Liver Failure.- Alcoholic Hepatitis.- Fulminant Hepatic Failure.- GI Bleeding.- Pancreatitis.- Diarrhea and Constipation.- Metabolic.- Stress Hyperglycemia and Glycemic Control.- Adrenal Insufficiency and CIRCI.- Hypo- and Hypercalcemia.- Electrolyte Disturbances.- Acid–Base Disturbances.- Acute Renal Failure.- Rhabdomyolysis.- Central Nervous System.- Ischemic Strokes and Intracerebral Hemorrhage.- Delirium.- Seizures and Status Epilepticus.- Management of Raised ICP.- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- Miscellaneous ICU Topics.- Anemia and RBC Transfusion.- Coagulopathy and FFP Transfusions.- Thrombocytopenia and Platelet Transfusion.- Eclampsia.- Management Issues in the Elderly.- Management Issues in the Obese Patient.- Multi-organ Dysfunction Syndrome.- Therapeutic Hypothermia.-Toxicology.- Alcohol Withdrawal Syndromes.- Serotonin Syndrome.- Radiology.- Pres.- End-of-Life Issues.- What Defines an Intensive Care Unit? Implications for Organizational Structure.- Intrahospital Transport.- Limiting Errors and Avoiding Litigation.- Avoiding Therapeutic Misadventures in the ICU.- The “Devil’s” Medicine Bag.- Words of Wisdom.
