Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (2 Volume Set)

Textbook and reference book - no multi-author book (“made from one piece”) - ideal for the preparation for the exam in Intensive Care Medicine - everything compact and clear for daily work in the intensive care unit - didactically clearly structured.

The book conveys the latest and current status in Intensive and Critical Care Medicine.

Numerous illustrations, schemes and memos are intended to make reading and learning easier.

The book is designed to make you fit for the management of critically ill patients (among other things of  COVID-19 patients) in the intensive care unit. It contains all topics of critical care medicine:

• airway management
• ventilation principles and ventilation techniques
• weaning
• tracheotomy
• chest tube [thoracic drainage]
• analgosedation
• catecholamine therapy
• hemodynamic monitoring
• shock
• nutrition
• resuscitation
• sepsis
• ECMO
• acute kidney injury
• renal replacement therapy
• acute coronary syndrome
• cardiogenic shock
• extracorporeal circulatory support
• cardiac arrhythmias
• inflammatory heart diseases [endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis]
• hypertensive crisis
• pulmonary embolism
• acute aortic syndrom
• ARDS
• pulmonary hypertension
• acute right heart failure
• obstructive lung diseases [status asthmaticus, exacerbated COPD]
• interstitial lung diseases
• bronchial hemorrhage
• gastrointestinal bleeding
• acute pancreatitis
• gastrointestinal atony
• complications of liver cirrhosis
• acute liver failure

acute mesenteric ischemia

pneumonia

multi-drug-resistant organisms

skin and soft tissue infections

fungal infections (mycoses)

malaria

endocrinological emergencies

disorders of the electrolytes

disorders of the acid-base balance

blood products

DIC

hyerfibrinolysis

HIT

ITP

thrombotic microangiopathies

oncological emergencies

stroke

intracranial hemorrhage

status epilepticus

meningitis

brain death (irreversible loss of brain function)

organ donation

neuromuscular diseases

crises in movement disorders

toxicology

electrical / drowning / diving accidents

hypothermia

hyperthermia (heat stroke)

major trauma

burns

ethics & law

a separate detailed chapter on COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)

Author: Dr. med. Volker Herold

• training as an internist and cardiologist
• additional designation emergency medicine
• senior emergency physician in the emergency medical service (specialist certificate)
• senior physician of Clinic for Internal Medicine, St. Joseph Hospital Regensburg / Germany
• head of the compact course in intensive care medicine