Critical Care: Just the Facts

Name: Critical Care: Just the Facts
Author: Jesse Hall

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Paperback, blz. | Engels

McGraw-Hill Education | e druk, 2007

ISBN13: 9780071440202

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McGraw-Hill Education e druk, 2007 9780071440202

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All the essentials of critical care in an instant!

This concise, yet comprehensive review is the perfect tool to prepare for in-service or licensing exams, for re-certification, or for use as a clinical refresher. Its highly efficient format conveniently condenses and simplifies the most important content, for maximum yield and comprehension-an especially important benefit for facilitating bedside diagnosis in critical care medicine.

FEATURESCompact review of key board-type material for specialization in critical care medicineTrusted insights from a writing team of top-name academics and clinicians from one of the country's preeminent critical care divisionsStandardized, bulleted format emphasizes key points of epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, differential diagnosis, diagnosis, procedures and treatment, prognosis, plus referencesHighlights and summarizes key concepts to assure quick absorption of the material and reinforce your understanding of even the most difficult topicsLogical chapter organization, arranged by system (cardiology, pulmonary system...) and illness (trauma, burns, poisoning…) to help focus your study and provide quick access to subjects

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ISBN13:9780071440202

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Uitgever:McGraw-Hill Education

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1Assessment of the Critically Ill Patient 2Airway Management 3Resuscitation 4Fluid Therapy 5Pain Management 6Sedation Management in the ICU 7Neuromuscular Blockade 8Monitoring the Cardiovascular System 9Monitoring the Respiratory System 10Assessment of Severity of Illness 11Pulmonary Artery Catheter 12Nutrition in the Critically Ill 13An Approach to Shock 14Ventricular Dysfunction in Critical Illness 15Rhythm Disturbances in the ICU 16Noninvasive Assessment of Cardiac Output 17Interpretation of Hemodynamic Waveforms 18Myocardial Ischemia 19Echocardiography in the Critically Ill Patient 20Acute Right Heart Syndromes 21Pulmonary Embolism: Thrombus, Fat, Air, and Amniotic Fluid 22Pericardial Disease 23Cardiovascular Diseases 24Aortic Dissection 25Mechanical Circulatory Assist Devices 26Hypertensive Encephalopathy and Hypertensive Emergencies27Pathophysiology of Acute Respiratory Faillure 28Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation 29Common Modes of Mechanical Ventilation 30Managing the Ventilated Patient 31Responding to Crises in the Ventilated Patient 32Using Respiractory Waveforms to Adjust Ventilator Settings 33Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation 34Ventilator-induced Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome 35Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome 36Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation 37Acute-on-Chronic Respiratory Failure 38Status Asthmaticus 39Hemoptysis and Pulmonary Hemmorrhage 40Restrictive Diseases of the Respiratory System 41Sleep Disordered Breathing 42Inhalation Injuries 43Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock 44Early Goal-Directed Therapy for Sepsis 45Drotrecogin alfa (activated) 46Approach to Sepsis of Unknown Etiology 47Empiric Antibiotic Selection in the Critical Care Setting 48Neutropenic Patients 49AIDS in the ICU 50Endocarditis 51Infectious Complications of Intravenous Devices 52Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia 53Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia 54Fungal Infections in the ICU 55Central Nervous System Infections 56Viral Encephalitis 57Life-Threatening Infections of the Head and Neck 58Soft Tissue Infections 59Urinary System Infections 60Gastrointestinal Infections 61Severe Malaria 62Tetanus 63Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers 64Anthrax and Smallpox 65SARS 66Influenza 67Plague: The Black Death 68Botulism 69Cerebrovascular Accident 70CNS Hemorrhage 71Anoxic Encephalopathy 72Therapeutic Hypothermia 73Status Epilepticus 74Acute Spinal Cord Compression 75Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit 76Neuromuscular Weakness in the ICU 77Head Trauma 78Coma and Persistent Vegetative State 79Brain Death 80Anemia, Transfusion, Massive Transfusion 81Sickle Cell Disease 82Bleeding Disorders in the ICU 83Thrombolytic Therapy 84Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura 85Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation 86Thrombocytopenia in Critically Ill Patients 87Plasmapheresis in the ICU 88Acute Leukemia 89Superior Vena Cava Syndrome 90Bone Marrow Transplantation 91Toxicities of Chemotherapy 92Radiation Pneumonitis 93Acute Renal Failure 94Renal Replacement Therapy in the ICU 95Severe Electrolyte Disorders 96Acid-Base Balance 97Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Adults 98Intensive Insulin Therapy in the Critically Ill 99Thyroid Disease 100Adrenal Insufficiency 101Rhabdomyolysis 102Upper GI Hemorrhage 103Lower GI Hemorrhage 104Acute Hepatic Failure 105Chronic Liver Disease 106Bleeding Esophageal Varices and TIPS 107Acute

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