Clinical Intensive Care and Acute Medicine

by Ken Hillman , Gillian Bishop

• ISBN13: 9780521789806
• ISBN10: 052178980X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-19
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This new edition provides an accessible account of the essentials of intensive care medicine. The core of the book focuses on areas common to all critically ill patients including fluid therapy, sedation, shock, infection and other central topics. This key understanding of basic pathophysiological principles provides an excellent launch pad for the section on individual disease entities encompassing haematology, gastroenterology, nephrology, endocrinology, the respiratory system, cardiovascular pathology, poisoning and neurology. Economic and ethical issues are also covered, and the text is supported by numerous problem-oriented guidelines to help the care provider tackle real-life practical problems as encountered in the ICU. In the same spirit, wherever possible, the authors provide precise and meaningful advice, rather than bland generalisations. This new edition reflects the excitement, challenges and uniqueness of intensive care medicine, for the benefit of all residents, trainees, nursing staff and paramedics attached to the ICU.

Table of Contents

Preface to first edition

Preface to second edition

1. A systematic approach to caring for the seriously ill

2. Organisation of an Intensive Care Unit

3. Routine care of the seriously ill

4. Fluid therapy and electrolytes

5. Nutrition and metabolism

6. Acid base balance

7. Sedation, analgesia and muscle relaxants

8. Shock and anaphylaxis

9. Multiorgan failure

10. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

11. Body temperature disorders

12. Transport of the seriously ill

13. Infection

14. Trauma

15. Poisoning

16. Acute respiratory failure

17. Interpretation of the portable chest film

18. Specific respiratory problems

19. Ventilatory techniques

20. Cardiorespiratory monitoring

21. Acute cardiovascular failure

22. Specific cardiovascular problems

23. Acute cranial disasters

24. Specific intercranial problems

25. Critical care neurology

26. Acute renal failure

27. Critical care gastroenterology

28. Critical care haematology

29. Critical care endocrinology

30. Obstetrics emergencies

31. Economics, outcome and ethics intensive care

Appendix 1. SI units

Appendix 2. Normal biochemical values

Appendix 3. Normal haematological/clotting values

Appendix 4. Normal urine values

Appendix 5. Normal CSF values

Appendix 6. Respiratory physiology and blood gases

Appendix 7. Cardiorespiratory abbreviations

Appendix 8. Toxicology

Index.