What is included with this book?
List of contributors | p. vii |
Foreword | p. ix |
Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgements | p. xii |
List of abbreviations | p. xiii |
Specific features of critical Care medicine | p. 1 |
Recognition of critical illness | p. 1 |
Advanced airway management | p. 6 |
Patient admission and discharge | p. 16 |
Transfer of the critically ill | p. 21 |
Scoring systems and outcome | p. 27 |
Information management in critical care | p. 34 |
Haemodynamics monitoring | p. 40 |
Critical care imaging modalities | p. 49 |
Vasoactive drugs | p. 58 |
Nutrition | p. 67 |
Pain control | p. 72 |
Sedation | p. 77 |
Ethics | p. 85 |
Organ donation | p. 91 |
Systemic disorders and management | p. 99 |
Sepsis | p. 99 |
Multiple organ failure | p. 108 |
Immunosuppressed patients | p. 116 |
Principles of antibiotics use | p. 124 |
Fluid and electrolyte disorders | p. 130 |
Acid-base abnormalities | p. 148 |
Post-operative critical care | p. 159 |
Post-resuscitation care | p. 170 |
Organ dysfunction and management | p. 177 |
Bleeding and clotting disorders | p. 177 |
Acute coronary syndromes | p. 185 |
Cardiac arrhythmias | p. 194 |
Acute heart failure | p. 202 |
Mechanical ventilation | p. 212 |
Failure of ventilation | p. 226 |
Failure of oxygenation | p. 232 |
Respiratory weaning | p. 241 |
Non-invasive ventilation | p. 246 |
Unconventional strategies for respiratory support | p. 251 |
Acute gastrointestinal bleeding and perforation | p. 257 |
Severe acute pancreatitis | p. 266 |
Poisoning | p. 275 |
Liver failure | p. 284 |
Acute renal failure | p. 292 |
Renal replacement therapy | p. 299 |
Status epilepticus | p. 306 |
Abnormal levels of consciousness | p. 312 |
Meningitis and encephalitis | p. 319 |
Traumatic brain injury | p. 325 |
Trauma and burns | p. 334 |
Eclampsia and pre-eclampsia | p. 342 |
Obstetric emergencies in the ICU | p. 349 |
Paediatric emergencies | p. 360 |
Examinations | p. 369 |
Core areas required for UK/European Diploma examinations | p. 369 |
Examples of mock MCQs and viva questions | p. 374 |
Index | p. 380 |
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