Critical Care: Just the Facts

OVERVIEW

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.

FEATURES

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

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Jesse B. Hall, MD Professor of Medicine, and of Anesthesia and Critical Care Chief, Section of Pulmonary & Critical Care Director of Medical Intensive Care Unit Pritzker School of Medicine University of Chicago Dr. Hall is a recognized leader in the discipline and runs one of the top departments in the country. Both Drs. Hall and Schmidt are active presenters at national meetings and known internationally through their software company MedSym.

Gregory A. Schmidt, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Pritzker School of Medicine Dr. Hall is a recognized leader in the discipline and runs one of the top departments in the country. Both Drs. Hall and Schmidt are active presenters at national meetings and known internationally through their software company MedSym.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Assessment of the Critically Ill Patient
2 Airway Management
3 Resuscitation
4 Fluid Therapy
5 Pain Management
6 Sedation Management in the ICU
7 Neuromuscular Blockade
8 Monitoring the Cardiovascular System
9 Monitoring the Respiratory System
10 Assessment of Severity of Illness
11 Pulmonary Artery Catheter
12 Nutrition in the Critically Ill
13 An Approach to Shock
14 Ventricular Dysfunction in Critical Illness
15 Rhythm Disturbances in the ICU
16 Noninvasive Assessment of Cardiac Output
17 Interpretation of Hemodynamic Waveforms
18 Myocardial Ischemia
19 Echocardiography in the Critically Ill Patient
20 Acute Right Heart Syndromes
21 Pulmonary Embolism: Thrombus, Fat, Air, and Amniotic Fluid
22 Pericardial Disease
23 Cardiovascular Diseases
24 Aortic Dissection
25 Mechanical Circulatory Assist Devices
26 Hypertensive Encephalopathy and Hypertensive Emergencies
27 Pathophysiology of Acute Respiratory Faillure
28 Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation
29 Common Modes of Mechanical Ventilation
30 Managing the Ventilated Patient
31 Responding to Crises in the Ventilated Patient
32 Using Respiractory Waveforms to Adjust Ventilator Settings
33 Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation
34 Ventilator-induced Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
35 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
36 Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
37 Acute-on-Chronic Respiratory Failure
38 Status Asthmaticus
39 Hemoptysis and Pulmonary Hemmorrhage
40 Restrictive Diseases of the Respiratory System
41 Sleep Disordered Breathing
42 Inhalation Injuries
43 Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock
44 Early Goal-Directed Therapy for Sepsis
45 Drotrecogin alfa (activated)
46 Approach to Sepsis of Unknown Etiology
47 Empiric Antibiotic Selection in the Critical Care Setting
48 Neutropenic Patients
49 AIDS in the ICU
50 Endocarditis
51 Infectious Complications of Intravenous Devices
52 Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia
53 Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
54 Fungal Infections in the ICU
55 Central Nervous System Infections
56 Viral Encephalitis
57 Life-Threatening Infections of the Head and Neck
58 Soft Tissue Infections
59 Urinary System Infections
60 Gastrointestinal Infections
61 Severe Malaria
62 Tetanus
63 Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
64 Anthrax and Smallpox
65 SARS
66 Influenza
67 Plague: The Black Death
68 Botulism
69 Cerebrovascular Accident
70 CNS Hemorrhage
71 Anoxic Encephalopathy
72 Therapeutic Hypothermia
73 Status Epilepticus
74 Acute Spinal Cord Compression
75 Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit
76 Neuromuscular Weakness in the ICU
77 Head Trauma
78 Coma and Persistent Vegetative State
79 Brain Death
80 Anemia, Transfusion, Massive Transfusion
81 Sickle Cell Disease
82 Bleeding Disorders in the ICU
83 Thrombolytic Therapy
84 Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
85 Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
86 Thrombocytopenia in Critically Ill Patients
87 Plasmapheresis in the ICU
88 Acute Leukemia
89 Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
90 Bone Marrow Transplantation
91 Toxicities of Chemotherapy
92 Radiation Pneumonitis
93 Acute Renal Failure
94 Renal Replacement Therapy in the ICU
95 Severe Electrolyte Disorders
96 Acid-Base Balance
97 Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Adults
98 Intensive Insulin Therapy in the Critically Ill
99 Thyroid Disease
100 Adrenal Insufficiency
101 Rhabdomyolysis
102 Upper GI Hemorrhage
103 Lower GI Hemorrhage
104 Acute Hepatic Failure
105 Chronic Liver Disease
106 Bleeding Esophageal Varices and TIPS
107 Acute Pancreatitis
108 Mesenteric Ischemia
109 Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
110 Inflammatory Bowel Disease
111 Acute Abdomen
112 Complicatons of Solid Organ Transplantation
113 Care of the Multi-System Trauma Patient
114 Spine Injuries
115 Torso Trauma
116 Pelvic and Extremity Trauma
117 Electrical Trauma
118 Burns
119 Care of the Post-Cardiac Surgery Patient
120 Pregnancy in the ICU
121 Rheumatology in the ICU
122 Dermatology in the ICU
123 Toxicology in Adults
124 Chemical Weapons
125 Anaphylaxis
126 Hypothermia
127 Severe Hyperthermia
128 Near Drowning
129 Carbon Monoxide Intoxication
130 Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
131 Acute Alcohol Withdrawal
132 Central Venous Catheter
133 Pulmonary Artery Catheter Insertion
134 Thoracentesis
135 Pericardiocentesis
136 Emergent Surgical Airway
137 Infection Control In the ICU
138 Transporting the Critically Ill
139 The eICU
140 Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapy and Administering Palliative Carer