Principles of Critical Care

PART I: An Overview of the Approach to and Organization of Critical Care
Chapter 1. Approach to Critical Care
Chapter 2. Assessing Cost-Effectiveness in the ICU
Chapter 3. Improving the Quality of Care in the ICU
Chapter 4. Infection Control and Surveillance in the Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 5. Legal Issues in Critical Care
Chapter 6. Assessment of Severity of Illness
Chapter 7. Transportation of the Critically Ill Patient
Chapter 8. Telemedicine
Chapter 9. Preparedness for Catastrophe
PART II General Management of the Patient
Chapter 10. Preventing Morbidity
Chapter 11. Nutrition in the Critically Ill Patient
Chapter 12. Intravascular Devices
Chapter 13. Clinical Use of the Pulmonary Artery Catheter
Chapter 14. Pain Control, Sedation and Use of Muscle Relaxants
Chapter 15. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Chapter 16. Therapeutic Hypothermia
Chapter 17. Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapy & Administering Palliative Care
Chapter 18. Chronic Critical Illness
Chapter 19. Long-Term Outcomes of Critical Illness
PART III Cardiovascular Disorders
Chapter 20. The Pathophysiology of the Circulation in Critical Illness
Chapter 21. Shock
Chapter 22. Ventricular Dysfunction in Critical Illness
Chapter 23. Diagnostic and Management Strategies for Acute Failure in the ICU
Chapter 24. Cardiac Arrhythmias, Pacing, Cardioversion/Defibrillation in the
Critical Care Setting
Chapter 25. Myocardial Ischemia
Chapter 26. Acute Right Heart Syndromes
Chapter 27. Pulmonary Embolic Disorders: Thrombus, Air, and FAT
Chapter 28. Pericardial Disease
Chapter 29. Valvular Heart Disease
Chapter 30. Aortic Dissection
PART IV Pulmonary Disorders
Chapter 31 The Pathophysiology and Differential Diagnosis of Acute Respiratory
Failure
Chapter 32. Ventilator Waveforms: Clinical Interpretation
Chapter 33. Noninvasive Ventilation
Chapter 34. Upper Airway Obstruction
Chapter 35. Airway Management
Chapter 36. Management of the Ventilated Patient
Chapter 37. Ventilator-Induced Lung Inquiry
Chapter 38. ARDS
Chapter 39. Acute-On-Chronic Respiratory Failure
Chapter 40. Severe Asthma
Chapter 41. Massive Hemoptysis
Chapter 42. Restrictive Disease of the Respiratory System and the Abdominal
Compartment Syndrome
Chapter 43. Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Chapter 44. Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation
PART V Infectious Disorders
Chapter 45. Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy and the Clinical Pharmacology
of Antimicrobial Drugs
Chapter 46. Sepsis with Acute Organ Dysfunction
Chapter 47. Approach to Infection in Patients Receiving Cytotoxic Chemotherapy
for Malignancy
Chapter 48. AIDS in the Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 49. Endocarditis and Other Intravascular Infections
Chapter 50. Intravascular Access Devices Used in Critical Care
Chapter 51. Pneumonia
Chapter 52. Bacterial Infections of the Central Nervous System
Chapter 53. Encephalomyelitis
Chapter 54. Life-Threatening Infections of the Head, Neck and Upper Respiratory
Tract
Chapter 55. Soft Tissue Infections
Chapter 56. Urinary Tract Infections
Chapter 57. Gastrointestinal Infections
Chapter 58. Severe Malaria
Chapter 59. Tetanus
Chapter 60. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
Chapter 61. Biowarfare Agents
PART VI Neurologic Disorders
Chapter 62. Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 63. Cerebrovascular Disease
Chapter 64. Seizures in the Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 65. Intracranial Pressure: Monitoring and Management
Chapter 66. Neuromuscular Diseases Leading to Respiratory Failure
Chapter 67. Coma, Persistent Vegetative State, and Brain Death
PART VII Hematologic and Oncologic Disorders
Chapter 68. Anemia and Blood Transfusion
Chapter 69. Bleeding Disorders
Chapter 70. Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Hemolytic Syndromes, and the Approach to
Thrombotic Microangiopathies
Chapter 71. Acute Leukemia
Chapter 72. Oncologic Emergencies
Chapter 73. Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Graft-Versus-Host
Disease
Chapter 74. Toxicities of C