Practical Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine provides illustrative chapters on the identification, diagnosis, and management of commonly encountered diseases and conditions in the care of the critically-ill patient.

Features:

• Addresses topics rarely covered in texts on the subject including chapters on nutrition, sedation, infection control, bioethics, and end-of-life considerations, and the electronic health record
• Covers frequently encountered disease conditions such as decompensated asthma, COPD, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, hemoptysis, and acute coronary syndrome
• Considers both primary and secondary complicating disorders including pulmonary embolism, sepsis, gastrointestinal bleeding, renal failure, and neurologic and neuromuscular conditions
• Contains must-have guidelines for an effective nosocomial infection control program
• Supplies a comprehensive approach to neuromuscular respiratory failure

Contents

1. Practical Management for the Patient with Acute Lung Injury
2. Critical Care for Acute Severe Asthma
3. Management of Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in the Critical Care Unit
4. Hemoptysis
5. Pneumonia in the ICU
6. Pulmonary Embolism
7. Neuromuscular Respiratory Failure
8. Acute Coronary Syndrome
9. Management of Congestive Heart Failure with a Focus on the Role of B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Sepsis
10. Sepsis
11. Management of Acute Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
12. Neurologic Emergencies in the Intensive Care Unit Setting
13. Evaluation and Treatment of Acute Renal Failure in the Intensive Care Unit
14. Nutritional Support in the Critically Ill Patient
15. Assessment and Management of Sedation in the ICU
16. Infection Control Issues in the Intensive Care Unit
17. Practical Medical Ethics in Intensive Care
18. The Electronic ICU

Index

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