Clinical Critical Care Medicine

Comprehensive and clinically oriented, this new text helps you provide the highest standard of care for patients in the ICU—in one full-color volume. An international cast of experts offers in-depth, authoritative guidance on clinical problems from a multitude of perspectives. Inside, you'll find a user-friendly format with a consistent organization from chapter to chapter for easy reference, and a bonus CD-ROM containing all of the illustrations from the text for use in PowerPoint slide presentations.

Key Features

Offers you the insights and benefits of critical care research being performed outside the U.S.
Combines practical, clinical guidance with the basic science necessary to effectively treat and manage critical care patients.
Emphasizes the practice of critical care, including general organ system monitoring and support.
Covers the wide range of diseases, disorders, and trauma encountered in the ICU.
Discusses everything from biologic response to stress to mechanical ventilation to problems associated with infectious diseases.
Includes detailed discussions on the hottest topics in the field, including mechanical ventilation
assessment for weaning
pregnancy-related critical care
and bioterrorism and unusual critical care medicine conditions.
Uses over 600 full-color illustrations that explain every detail.
Offers a differential diagnosis table, a management algorithm, a therapeutic implications flowchart, and a controversies box in every clinical disorders chapter.
Includes a BONUS CD-ROM that lets you download all of the superb full-color illustrations from the book into PowerPoint.

Contents
Section 1. Basic Biology and Critical Care Medicine
Inflammation

Genetics
Biologic Response to Stress
Vascular Tone
Cell Metabolism and Tissue Hypoxy
Section 2. Practice of Critical Care
ICU Pharmacology, Including Sedation, Paralysis, Analgesis, Delirium
Antibiotics in the ICU
ID Prophylaxis
Prophylactic Therapy
ICU Scoring Systems
Hemodynamic Monitoring
Mechanical Ventilation
Modes
Tracheostomy
Monitoring
Patient–ventilation Interaction
VALI
Assessment for Weaning
VA Pneumonia
Clinical Assessment of the Acutely Unstable Patient
Nursing Issues of the Critically Ill
Nutritional Support
Withdrawal and Withholding Life Support
Section 3. Pulmonary Problems
Acute Exacerbations of COPD and Asthma (including VCD)
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Including Near-Drowning, Vasculitis
Pulmonary Embolism
Obesity and Chest Wall Problems
Neuromuscular Respiratory Failure, Including Botulism, Guillian-Barre, Tick Paralysis, Myasthenis Gravis, Organophosphates
Section 4. Cardiovascular Problems
Pathophysiology of Cardiovascular Failure
Cardica Ischemia/Infarction
Arrhythmias (brady, tachy, pacing)
Hypertensive Emergencies
Acute Cardiovascular Emergencies
Heart–Lung Interactions
Section 5. Neurologic Problems
Intracranial Pressure and Central Brain Flow Regulation
Management of Traumatic Brain Injury, Including Secondary Insult, Traumatic Edema (Glasgow Coma Scale)
Management of Subarachnoid Hemmorhage, Including HHH, Vasospasm
CNS Infection and Vasculitis
Seizure
Management of Spinal Injury
Brain Death and Management of Donor
Section 6. Renal and Metabolic Problems
Acid Base Disorders
Electrolyte Disorders
Acute Renal Failure
Hepatorenal Syndrome
Acute Endocrine Disorders
DKA and HONC
Section 7. Gastrointestinal Problems
GI Bleeding, UGIB and LGIB
Pancreatitis
Fulminant Hepatic Failure
Acute Abdominal Emergencies
Section 8. Hematologic Problems
Coagulation Overview
Bleeding Disorders
Blood Product Replacement
Section 9. Infectious Disease Problems
Community-acquired Pneumonia
Pneumonia in the Immunocompromised Patient Sepsis
Catheter-related Infections
Section 10. Other Critical Care Problems
Multi-trauma, Including Peripheral Compartment Syndromes
Burns, Electrical, and Inhalation Injuries
Hypo-hyperthermia
Pregnancy-related Critical Care
Acute Care of Post-cardiac Surgery Patients
Acute Care of Major Surgery Patients
Alcohol and Drug Ingestions
CO Inhalation
Bioterrorism and Unusual Critical Care Medicine Conditions.


Author Information
By Richard K. Albert, Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado, Chief, Medical Service, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA; Arthur Slutsky; V. Marco Ranieri; Antoni Torres; and Jukka Takala