Critical care medicine principles of diagnosis and management in the adult
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
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| Sprache: | English |
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Philadelphia, PA
Mosby Elsevier
c2008
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| Ausgabe: | 3rd ed |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Airway management in the critically ill adult -- Assessment of cardiac filling and blood flow -- Arterial, central venous, and pulmonary artery catheters -- Temporary cardiac pacing -- Pericardial tamponade: clinical presentation, diagnosis, and catheter-based therapies -- Intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation -- Echocardiography -- General principles of mechanical ventilation -- Ventilatory management of obstructive airway disease -- Mechanical ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome -- Bronchoscopy and lung biopsy in critically ill patients -- Noninvasive respiratory monitoring -- Arterial blood gas measurements -- Tracheostomy -- Chest tube thoracostomy -- Intracranial monitoring -- Gastrointestinal endoscopy -- Continuous renal replacement therapy -- Use of sedatives, analgesics, and neuromuscular blockers -- Principles of drug dosing in critically ill patients -- Shock: classification, pathophysiology, and approach to management -- Cardiogenic shock -- Septic shock -- Cardiac tamponade -- Severe sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction -- Hypovolemic shock -- Traumatic shock and tissue hypoperfusion: nonsurgical management -- Anaphylaxis and anaphylactic shock -- Severe heart failure -- Acute coronary syndromes and acute myocardial infarction -- Cardiac arrhythmias -- Valvular heart disease in critical care -- Acute aortic dissection -- Hypertensive crises -- General principles of postoperative intensive care unit care -- Management of the patient after cardiac surgery -- Acute respiratory failure -- Life-threatening asthma -- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- Hypoventilation and respiratory muscle dysfunction Nonpulmonary causes of respiratory failure -- Pneumonia: considerations for the critically ill patient -- Weaning from mechancial ventilation -- Pulmonary embolism -- Pulmonary hypertension -- Massive hemoptysis -- Pneumothorax and barotrauma -- Toxic gas, fume, and smoke inhalation -- Immunologic lung disease in the critically ill -- Nonsocomial infection in the intensvie care unit -- Principles governing antimicrobial therapy in the intensive care unit -- Antifungal and antiviral therapy -- Critically ill immunosuppressed host -- Specific infections with critical care implications -- Acute renal failure -- Chronic renal failure -- Acid-base, electrolyte, and metabolic abnormalities -- Acute diabetic emergencies, hypoglycemia, and glycemic control -- Adrenal insufficiency in the critically ill patient -- Thyroid disorders -- Coma -- Neurologic criteria for death in adults -- Stroke -- Acute neuromuscular respiratory failure in myasthenia gravis and Guillain-Barre Syndrome -- Seizures in the critically ill -- Head injury -- Critical care management of the severely burned patient -- Poisonings -- Hypothermia, hyperthermia, and rhabdomyolysis -- Intensive care unit adminstration and performance improvement -- Ethical considerations in managing critically ill patient -- Delirium, sleep, and mental health disturbances in critical illness -- Severity scoring systems: toos for the evaluation of patients and intensive care units -- Education and training in critical care -- Diagnosis and management of liver failure in the adult -- Gastrointestinal bleeding -- Acute pancreatitis -- Hemorrhagic and thrombotic disorders -- Use of blood components in the intensive care unit -- Intensive care of the cancer patient -- Critical care medicine in pregnancy -- Nutrition support Here b2 ss the most clinically oriented critical care text focusing on the adult patient. In full-color and superbly illustrated with clinical photographs, imaging studies, and management algorithms, and with a broad multidisciplinary focus, this text will help you enhance your skills at any level of training. Stands alone as a clinically oriented comprehensive reference. Completely updated and authorship expanded to reflect the evolution in critical care practice. In color for the first time, with new color schematics and treatment algorithms for greater ease of reference. Utilizes key points lists at the end of chapter, to help you make decisions rapidly and easily. Delivers key references that list other useful resources for information |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xix, 1776 p.)) |
| ISBN: | 9780323070959 0323070957 9780323048415 0323048412 |