Section I - Introduction/General Concepts
Chapter 1 - National Health Systems and the Place of Intensive Care Medicine: Which Model?
Chapter 2 - Life and Death in the ICU: Ethical Considerations
Chapter 3 - Understanding Reactions of Patients and Families
Chapter 4 - Breaking Bad News to Patients
Chapter 6 - Judicial Involvement in End-of-Life Decisions
Chapter 8 - Clinical Decision Making
Chapter 9 - How to Read a Medical Journal and Understand Basic Statistics
Chapter 10 - Quality Assurance, Safety, and Outcomes
Chapter 11 - External Compliance Organizations and Measures
Chapter 12 - The Virtual ICU and Telemedicine: Computers, Electronics, and Data Management
Chapter 13 - Universal Precautions: Protecting the Practitioner
Chapter 14 - Intrahospital Transport of Critically Ill Patients
Chapter 15 - Interhospital Transport of Critically Ill Patients
Section II - Monitoring
Chapter 16 - Invasive Pressure Monitoring: General Principles
Chapter 17 - Noninvasive Cardiovascular Monitoring
Chapter 18 - Hemodynamic Monitoring: Arterial and Pulmonary Artery Catheters
Chapter 19 - Monitoring Tissue Perfusion and Oxygenation
Chapter 21 - Pulse Oximetry and Plethysmography
Chapter 24 - Temperature Monitoring
Chapter 25 - Blood Volume Measurements in Critical Care
Chapter 27 - Neurologic Monitoring
Chapter 28 - Radiographic Imaging and Bedside Ultrasound in the Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 29 - Neuroimaging of the Critical Care Patient
Chapter 30 - Intensive Care Unit Point-of-Care Testing
Section III - Techniques, Procedures, and Treatments
Chapter 31 - Clean and Aseptic Techniques at the Bedside
Chapter 32 - Vascular Cannulation
Chapter 33 - Temporary Cardiac Pacemakers
Chapter 34 - Important Intensive Care Procedures
Chapter 35 - Interventional Radiology in the Critical Care Unit
Chapter 36 - Feeding Tube Placement
Chapter 37 - Flexible Bronchoscopy
Chapter 38 - Airway Management
Chapter 39 - Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Chapter 40 - Anesthesia in the ICU
Section IV - Essential Physiologic Concerns
Chapter 41 - Fluids and Electrolytes
Chapter 42 - Blood Gas Analysis and Acid-base Disorders
Chapter 43 - Central Nervous System
Chapter 44 - The Lung Structure and Function
Chapter 45 - Cardiovascular System
Chapter 46 - Fundamentals of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Chapter 47 - Renal Physiology and Its Systemic Impact
Chapter 48 - Gastrointestinal Physiology
Chapter 50 - Allergy and Immunology
Section V - Modulating the Response to Injury
Chapter 51 - Molecular Biology: Genomics and Proteonomics
Chapter 52 - Gene Therapy in Critical Illness: Past Applications and Future Potential
Chapter 53 - The Host Response to Injury and Critical Illness
Chapter 54 - Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
Section VI - Shock States
Chapter 56 - Cardiogenic Shock
Chapter 57 - Sepsis and Septic Shock
Chapter 58 - Hemorrhagic Shock
Chapter 60 - Anaphylactic Shock
Chapter 61 - Splanchnic Flow and Resuscitation
Section VII - Pharmacology, Nutrition, Toxicology, and the Environment
Chapter 62 - Pharmacologic Principles
Chapter 63 - Sedation and Neuromuscular Blockade
Chapter 64 - Nutritional Issues
Chapter 65 - Practical Aspects of Nutritional Support
Chapter 67 - Substance Abuse and Withdrawal: Alcohol, Cocaine, Opioids and Other Drugs
Section VIII - The Surgical Patient
Chapter 69 - Perioperative Pulmonary Function Testing and Consultation
Chapter 70 - Preoperative Evaluation of the High-Risk Surgical Patient
Chapter 71 - Anesthesia: Physiology and Postanesthesia Problems
Chapter 72 - Initial Management of the Trauma Patient
Chapter 73 - Secondary and Tertiary Triage of the Trauma Patient
Chapter 74 - Surgical and Post-Surgical Bleeding
Chapter 75 - Abdominal Trauma: Nonoperative Management and Postoperative Considerations
Chapter 76 - Evaluating the Acute Abdomen
Chapter 77 - The Difficult Post-Operative Abdomen
Chapter 78 - Critical Care of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Patients
Chapter 79 - Critical Care of the Thoracic Surgical Patient
Chapter 80 - Postoperative Management of Adult Cardiovascular Surgery Patients
Chapter 81 - Management of the Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Patient
Chapter 82 - Vascular Surgery in the Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 83 - Neurologic Injury: Prevention and Initial Care
Chapter 84 - CNS Vascular Disease
Chapter 85 - Orthopedic Critical Care
Chapter 86 - Urologic Surgery and Trauma
Chapter 88 - Burn Injury: Thermal and Electrical
Chapter 89 - Temperature-Related Injuries
Section IX - Organ Transplantation
Chapter 90 - Transplantation: An Overview of Problems and Concerns
Chapter 91 - Heart Transplantation
Chapter 92 - Lung Transplantation
Chapter 94 - Pancreatic Transplantation
Chapter 95 - Renal Transplantation
Chapter 96 - Critical Care Aspects of Stem Cell Transplantation
Section X - Special Patient Population
Chapter 97 - The Obstetric Patient: General
Chapter 98 - Cardiac Disease and Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy
Chapter 99 - Hemorrhagic and Liver Disorders of Pregnancy
Chapter 100 - Acute Abdomen and Trauma during Pregnancy
Chapter 101 - Fetal Monitoring Concerns
Chapter 102 - The Obese Surgical Patient in the Critical Care Unit
Section XI - Infectious Disease
Chapter 103 - The Geriatric Patient
Chapter 104 - The Role of Antibiotics in the Management of Serious Hospital-Acquired Infections
Chapter 105 - An Approach to the Febrile ICU Patient
Chapter 106 - Surgical Infections
Chapter 107 - Skin Wounds and Musculoskeletal Infection
Chapter 108 - Neurologic Infections
Chapter 109 - Infections of the Head and Neck
Chapter 110 - Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections
Chapter 111 - Respiratory Infections in the ICU
Chapter 112 - Adult Gastrointestinal Infections in the ICU
Chapter 114 - Fungal and Viral Infections
Chapter 115 - Infections in the Immunocompromised Host
Chapter 116 - Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 117 - Unusual Infections
Section XII - Cardiovascular Disease and Dysfunction
Chapter 118 - Evaluation of Chest Pain and Acute Coronary Syndrome in the ICU
Chapter 119 - Non ST Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome: Contemporary Management Strategies
Chapter 120 - ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Contemporary Management Strategies
Chapter 121 - Evaluation and Management of Heart Failure
Chapter 122 - Cardiac Mechanical Assist Devices
Chapter 123 - Valvular Heart Disease
Chapter 124 - Cardiac Dysrhythmias
Chapter 125 - Pericardial Disease
Chapter 126 - Acute Hypertension Management in the ICU
Section XIII - Respiratory Disorders
Chapter 127 - Heart–Lung Interactions
Chapter 128 - Anatomy of Mechanical Ventilation
Chapter 129 - Noninvasive Ventilatory Support Modes
Chapter 130 - Invasive Ventilatory Support Modes
Chapter 131 - Bedside Interpretation of Ventilatory Waveforms
Chapter 132 - Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation
Chapter 133 - High-frequency Ventilation: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
Chapter 134 - Oxygen Therapy and Basic Respiratory Care
Chapter 135 - Indications for and Management of Tracheostomy
Chapter 136 - Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Chapter 137 - Extracorporeal Circulation for Respiratory or Cardiac Failure
Chapter 140 - Severe Asthma Exacerbation
Chapter 141 - Acute Respiratory Failure in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chapter 142 - Pulmonary Embolism
Chapter 143 - Other Embolic Syndromes (Air, Fat, Amniotic Fluid)
Chapter 144 - Pleural Disease in the Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 145 - Massive Hemoptysis
Section XIV - Neurologic Disease and Dysfunction
Chapter 146 - Elevated Intracranial Pressure
Chapter 147 - Altered Consciousness and Coma in the Intensive Care Unit/a>
Chapter 148 - Seizures and Status Epilepticus
Chapter 149 - Neuromuscular Disorders
Chapter 150 - Behavioral Disturbances in the Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 151 - ICU Discharge Criteria and Rehabilitation Potential for Severe Brain Injury Patients
Section XV - Gastrointestinal Disease and Dysfunction
Chapter 152 - Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Chapter 153 - Approach to Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Chapter 154 - Liver Failure: Acute and Chronic
Chapter 155 - Pancreatic Disease
Chapter 156 - Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Toxic Megacolon
Chapter 157 - Esophageal Disorders
Chapter 158 - Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders
Chapter 159 - Mesenteric Ischemia
Section XVI - Renal
Chapter 160 - Acute Renal Failure
Chapter 161 - Renal Replacement Therapies in the Critically Ill Patient
Section XVII - Endocrine Disease and Dysfunction
Chapter 162 - Endocrinopathy in the ICU
Chapter 163 - Disordered Glucose Metabolism
Chapter 164 - The Adrenal Gland in Critical Illness
Chapter 165 - Pheochromocytoma