BookJay L. Koyner, MD, Joel M. Topf, MD, Edgar V. Lerma, MD, FACP, FASN, FPSN (Hon).
Summary: "Covers all essential topics related to nephrology in the ICU, including ICU monitoring, drugs and blood products, imaging, acute kidney injury, electrolytes and acid-base disorders, poisonings and intoxications, extracorporeal therapies, organ transplantation, and ethics and palliative care. Provides valuable information on specific conditions including sepsis, obstetrics, abdominal compartment syndrome, AKI in burns and trauma, gastrointestinal bleeding, neurological emergencies, environmental topics such as hemorrhagic fever and terrorism, hematologic/oncologic emergencies, and more. Includes easy-to-understand visual abstracts of key studies" -- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Critical care and intensive care unit monitoring
Acute kidney injury in the intensive care unit
Drugs and blood products in the intensive care unit setting
Special labs
Imaging in the intensive care unit
Electrolytes and acid-base disorders
Poisonings and intoxications
Extracorporeal therapies
Specific conditions
Organ transplantation
Ethics/Palliative care.