Bookedited by Andrew Bersten, Neil Soni.
Summary: Whether you're a newcomer to the ICU or a seasoned practitioner, Oh's Intensive Care Manual delivers the practical, expert answers you need to manage the conditions you see every day in the intensive care unit. This highly esteemed, bestselling medical reference book presents comprehensive detail on each topic, while maintaining a succinct, accessible style so this information can be seamlessly incorporated into your daily practice. Access everything you need to know about disease processes and their management during the course of ICU rotations. Gain valuable insight into the consensus of practice and standard of ICU care as followed in the UK, Europe, India, and Australia. Take advantage of expert advice on practical issues that will be encountered on a day-to-day basis in the ICU, as well as common pitfalls in treatment and management emphasized in each chapter.
Contents:
pt. One Organisation Aspects
1. Design and organisation of intensive care units / Felicity H. Hawker
2. Critical care outreach and rapid response systems / Christian P. Subbe
3. Severity of illness and likely outcome from critical illness / Mark Palazzo
4. Transport of critically ill patients / Matthew R. Hooper
5. Physiotherapy in intensive care / Mandy O. Jones
6. Critical care nursing / John R. Welch
7. Ethics in intensive care / Malcolm M. Fisher
8.Common problems after ICU / Evelyn Corner
9. Clinical information systems / David Fraenkel
10. Clinical trials in critical care / Anthony Delaney
11. Palliative care / Neil Soni
12. ICU and the elderly / Richard Keays
13. Health care team in intensive care medicine / Gerry O'Callaghan
14. Preparing for examinations in intensive care medicine / Liz Hickson
pt. Two Shock
15. Overview of shock / Sandra L. Peake
16. Haemodynamic monitoring / David J. Sturgess 17. Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome / Marriane J. Chapman
18. Monitoring oxygenation / Balasubramanian Venkatesh
19. Lactic acidosis / Alistair D. Nichol
pt. Three Acute Coronary Care
20. Acute cardiac syndromes, investigations and interventions / Bradley Power
21. Adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation / Peter T. Morley
22. Management of cardiac arrhythmias / Andrew Holt
23. Cardiac pacing and implantable cardioverter defibrillators / Oliver R. Segal
24. Acute heart failure / David Treacher
25. Valvular and congenital heart disease and bacterial endocarditis / Susanna Price
26. Intensive care after cardiac surgery / Raymond F. Raper
27. Echocardiography in the intensive care unit / Susanna Price
pt. Four Respiratory Failure
28. Oxygen therapy / Adrian J. Wagstaff
29. Airway management and acute airway obstruction / Gordon Y.S. Choi
30. Acute respiratory failure in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / David V. Tuxen 31. Mechanical ventilation / Andrew D. Bersten
32. Humidification and inhalation therapy / Andrew D. Bersten
33. Acute respiratory distress syndrome / Andrew D. Bersten
34. Pulmonary embolism / David V. Pilcher
35. Acute severe asthma / Matthew T. Naughton
36. Pneumonia / Charles D. Gomersall
37. Non-invasive ventilation / Andrew D. Bersten
38. Respiratory monitoring / Andrew D. Bersten
39. Imaging the chest / Simon P.G. Padley
40. Ultrasound in the ICU / Ubbo F. Wiersema
41. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) / Vincent Pellegrino
41.1. ECMO for respiratory failure
41.2. ECMO for cardiac failure
pt. Five Gastroenterological Emergencies and Surgery
42. Acute gastrointestinal bleeding / Joseph J.Y. Sung
43. Severe acute pancreatitis / Duncan L.A. Wyncoll
44. Liver failure / Julia Wendon
44.1. Acute hepatic failure
44.2. Cirrhosis and acute-on-chronic liver disease 45. Abdominal surgical catastrophes / Stephen J. Streat
46. Solid tumours and their implications in the ICU / Pascale Gruber
pt. Six Acute Renal Failure
47. Acute kidney injury / Rinaldo Bellomo
48. Renal replacement therapy / Rinaldo Bellomo
pt. Seven Neurological Disorders
49. Disorders of consciousness / Balasubramanian Venkatesh
50. Status epilepticus / Helen I. Opdam
51. Acute cerebrovascular complications / Thearina de Beer
52. Cerebral protection / Michelle Hayes
53. Brain death / Martin Smith
54. Meningitis and encephalomyelitis / Angus M. Kennedy
55. Tetanus / Jeffrey Lipman
56. Delirium / Marcela P. Vizcaychipi
57. Neuromuscular diseases in intensive care / Manoj K. Saxena
pt. Eight Endocrine Disorders
58. Diabetic emergencies / Richard Keays
59. Diabetes insipidus and other polyuric syndromes / Alastair C. Carr
60. Thyroid emergencies / Ying Li 61. Adrenocortical insufficiency in critical illness / Jeremy Cohen
62. Acute calcium disorders / Balasubramanian Venkatesh
pt. Nine Obstetric Emergencies
63. Preeclampsia and eclampsia / Tony Gin
64. General obstetric emergencies / Tony Gin
65. Severe pre-existing disease in pregnancy / Steve M. Yentis
pt. Ten Infections and Immune Disorders
66. Anaphylaxis / Malcolm M. Fisher
67. Host defence mechanisms and immunodeficiency disorders / Alexander A. Padiglione
68. HIV and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome / Steve McGloughlin
69. Severe sepsis / A. Raffaele De Gaudio
70. Nosocomial infections / Rishi H-P Dhillon
71. Severe soft-tissue infections / Didier Pittet
72. Principles of antibiotic use / Jeffrey Lipman
73. Tropical diseases / Michael E. Pelly
pt. Eleven Severe and Multiple Trauma
74. Severe and multiple trauma / Li C. Hsee
75. Severe head injuries / Manoj K. Saxena pt. Fourteen Metabolic Homeostasis
92. Acid
base balance and disorders / Thomas J. Morgan
93. Fluid and electrolyte therapy / Simon Finfer
94. Enteral and parenteral nutrition / Richard Leonard
pt. Fifteen Haematological Management
95. Blood transfusion / James P. Isbister
96. Colloids and blood products / Matthias Jacob
97. Therapeutic plasma exchange and intravenous immunoglobulin therapy / James P. Isbister
98. Haemostatic failure / James P. Isbister
99. Haematological malignancy / Timothy Wigmore
pt. Sixteen Transplantation
100.Organ donation / Stephen J. Streat
101. Liver transplantation / Julia Wendon
102. Heart and lung transplantation / Paul C. Jansz
pt. Seventeen Paediatric Intensive Care
103. The critically ill child / Shelley D. Riphagen
104. Upper airway obstruction in children / Sara Hanna
105. Acute respiratory failure in children / Kevin Plumpton 106. Paediatric fluid and electrolyte therapy / Frank Shann
107. Sedation and analgesia in children / Geoff Knight
108. Shock and cardiac disease / Johnny Millar
109. Neurological emergencies in children / Anthony J. Slater
110. Paediatric trauma / Kevin McCaffery
111. Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment in children / James Tibballs
112. Paediatric poisoning / James Tibballs
113. Paediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation / James Tibballs.