This source addresses critical care and emergency practices and technologies for trauma and surgical conditions affecting all areas of the body.

Features:

• Presented in a logical systems based format, reviewing the nervous, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal systems, among others, this source outlines equipment to monitor the brain and spinal cord, hemodynamics, and renal function
• provides a step-by-step approach to perform a TEE examination
• supplies an overview of seven goals that must be achieved to wean patients from mechanical ventilation
• studies the role of physical and occupational therapy in critical care considers religious and cultural differences in brain death and end-of-life care

Contents

1. Neurophysiology Review
2. Pulmonary Physiology Review
3. Cardiovascular Physiology Review
4. Clinical Pharmacology Review
5. Analgesia and Sedation for Trauma and Critical Care
6. Neuromuscular Blockade for Trauma and Critical Care
7. Neurological Monitoring
8. Respiratory Monitoring
9. Cardiovascular Monitoring
10. Renal and Splanchnic Monitoring
11. Temperature Monitoring. Head Injury
12. Spinal Cord Injury: Critical Care Management
13. Management of Intracerebral Vascular Catastrophies
14. Pediatric Neurological Emergencies
15. Brain Death and Organ Donation
16. Hemodynamic Management
17. Shock
18. Myocardial Ischemia in Trauma and Critical Care
19. Dysrhythmia: Diagnosis and Management
20. Use of the TEE in the SICU
21. Mechanical Assist Devices
22. Acute Respiratory Failure: Initial Diagnosis & Management
23. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
24. Special Considerations Related to Chest Injuries
25. Respiratory Care Mechanical Ventilation
26. Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation
27. Extubation of the Difficult Airway & ETT Change in the SICU
28. Gastrointestinal Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis
29. Nutritional and Metabolic Evaluation and Monitoring
30. Enteral Nutrition
31. Parental Nutrition
32. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
33. Liver Dysfunction in the Previously Well Patient
34. Acute Fulminant Hepatic Failure
35. The Cirrhotic Patient
36. Artificial Liver, Blood Cleansing Techniques
37. Pancreatitis in Trauma and Critical Illness
38. Renal Prophylaxis: Role of Renal Protective Agents in the SICU
39. Rhabidomylysis
40. Oliguria: Renal Failure or Renal Success?
41. Dialysis Therapies in the SICU
42. Fluid and Electrolyte Disorders
43. Acid-Base Disorders
44. Fever in the SICU
45. Sepsis
46. Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
47. Indwelling Vascular Catheter Related Infection and Sepsis
48. Abdominal Sources of Infection
49. Sinusitis
50. The Immunocompromised Patient
51. Antimicrobial Therapy
52. Anemia: Diagnosis and Treatment
53. Thrombocytopenia/Thrombocytosis
54. Venous Thrombo-Embolus Disease
55. Leukocytosis/Neutropenia
56. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
57. Rational Use of Blood Products
58. Glucose and Insulin Management in Critical Care
59. Thyroid/Parathyroid Disorders
60. Adrenal Suppression and Crisis
61. SIRS (Endocrine vs. Autocrine)
62. Family Centered Critical Care
63. Acute Stress Disorder, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
64. Rehabilitation: Starts in the SICU
65. Ethical & Legal Issues in Trauma and Critical Care
66. Religious and Cultural Differences in Brain Death and End of Life Care
67. Comfort Care During the Withholding/Withdrawal Life Support
68. Critical Care Rounds, Notes, and Use of Consultants
69. Financial Considerations for Trauma and Critical Care
70. Remote Management of Trauma and Critical Care
71. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Applications for Trauma and Critical Care
72. Severity of Illness Scoring for Critical Care
73. Algorithms for Trauma and Critical Care

Index

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