Rogers' Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care, Fourth edition contains detailed discussions of the scientific principles of pediatric critical care translated into practical clinical applications.

This new edition has an international roster of over 250 contributors and emphasizes areas of collaboration between critical care physicians and nurses.

Other highlights of this edition include:

• a new section on basic concepts of critical care, including genetic medicine
• a new section on PICU systems, organization, and management
• chapters on worldwide threats to children's health
• sections on life support technologies and invasive procedures

Partial Contents

Part One: Critical Care Integration

Section I: Introduction to the Practice of Pediatric Critical Care

1. The History of Pediatric Intensive Care Around the World
2. Pediatric Intensive Care: A Global Perspective
3. Impact of Pediatric Critical Care on the Family, Community, and Society

Section II: Professionalism, Leadership, and Systems-Based Practice

4. Professionalism, Simulation Training, and Leadership in Pediatric Critical Care
5. Physical Design and Personnel Organization of the PICU
6. Practice Management: The Business of Pediatric Critical Care
7. Research Design and Statistical Analysis
8. Evidence-based Medicine
9. Severity-of-Illness Scoring Systems
10. Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, and Medical Error
11. Information Technology in the PICU

Section III: Ethical and Compassionate Care of the Critically Ill Child

12. Pain and Sedation Management in the Critically Ill Child
13. Rehabilitation of Children with Critical Illness
14. Ethics
15. Organ Donation

Section IV: Basic Concepts of Pediatric Critical Care

16. Genomic Medicine
17. Innate Immunity and Inflammation Ch
18. Cellular Adaptations to Stress
19. Shock and Reperfusion Injury
20. Pharmacology
21. Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

Part Two: Emergency Care and Acute Management

Section I: Initial Stabilization

22. Airway Management
23. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
24. Transport
25. Invasive Procedures
26. Recognition and Initial Management of Shock

Section II: Environmental Crises

27. Multiple Trauma
28. Drowning and Near Drowning: Submersion Injuries
29. Burns, Electrical Injuries, and Smoke Inhalation
30. Terrorism and Mass Casualty Events
31. Poisoning
32. Thermoregulation
33. Envenomation Syndromes

Section III: Life-Support Technologies

34. Mechanical Ventilation
35. Inhaled Gases
36. Extracorporeal Life Support
37. Renal Replacement Therapies
38. Blood Products in the PICU
39. Plasmapheresis and Transfusion Therapy

Part Three: Critical Care Organ Systems

Section I: Respiratory Disease

40. The Molecular Biology of Acute Lung Injury
41. Respiratory Physiology
42. Respiratory Monitoring
43. Status Asthmaticus
44. Neonatal Respiratory Failure
45. Bronchiolitis and Pneumonia
46. Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
47. Chronic Respiratory Failure
48. Sleep and Breathing

Section II: Neuromuscular Disease

49. Acute Neuromuscular Disease
50. Chronic Neuromuscular Disease

Section III: Neurologic Disease

51. Developmental Neurobiology, Neurophysiology,and the PICU
52. Molecular Biology of Brain Injury
53. Evaluation of the Comatose Child

Section IV: Cardiac Disease

62. Cardiac Anatomy
63. Cardiovascular Physiology
64. Cardiorespiratory Interactions in Children with Heart Disease

Section V: Immunologic Deseases

71. Neurohormonal Control in the Immune System
72. The Immune System
73. The Polymorphonuclear Leukocyte in Critical Illness

Section VI: Infectious Diseases

77. Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy
78. Bacterial Sepsis and Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis
79. Critical Viral Infections

Section VII: Nutritional and Gastrointestinal Disorders

85. Principles of Nutrition and Metabolism
86. Nutritional Support in the Critically Ill Child
87. The Acute Abdomen

Section VIII: Renal, Endocrine, and Metabolic Disorders

91. Adrenal Dysfunction
92. Disorders of Glucose Homeostasis
93. Disorders of Water, Sodium, and Potassium Homeostasis

Section IX: Oncologic and Hematologic Disorders

99. Cancer Therapy: Mechanisms, Toxicity, and Ethics in the PICU
100. Oncologic Emergencies and Complications

Index

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