-Description-
Here the most clinically oriented critical care text focusing on the adult patient. In full-color and superbly
illustrated with clinical photographs, imaging studies, and management algorithms, and with a broad multidisciplinary
focus, this text will help you enhance your skills at any level of training.
-Reviews-
"A superb text that will probably become a mainstay for the internal medicine intensivist. This book will make an
excellent addition to the library of any intensive care unit." ?Annals of Internal Medicine
-Key Features-
Stands alone as a clinically oriented comprehensive reference.
Completely updated and authorship expanded to reflect the evolution in critical care practice.
In color for the first time, with new color schematics and treatment algorithms for greater ease of reference.
Utilizes key points lists at the end of chapter, to help you make decisions rapidly and easily.
Delivers key references that list other useful resources for information.
-New to this Edition-
Includes these seven new chapters to keep you on the cutting edge of your specialty:
Assessment of Cardiac Filling and Blood Flow
Mechanical Ventilation of Obstructive Airways Disease
Mechanical Ventilation of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Severe Sepsis and Multiple Organ Dysfunction
Stroke
Delirium, Psychosis, Sleep and Depression in the ICU
ICU Education
-Table of Contents-
Part I CRITICAL CARE PROCEDURES, MONITORING, AND PHARMACOLOGY
1 Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Wanchun Tang and
Max Harry Weil
2 Airway Management in the Critically Ill Adult, G. G. Lavery and C.
A. Jamison
3 Assessment of Cardiac Filling and Blood Flow, Amish Patel, Andrew
Rhodes, and Richard Beale
4 Arterial, Central Venous, and Pulmonary Artery Catheters, Jean-
Louis Vincent
5 Temporary Cardiac Pacing, Lawrence J. Gessman and Joseph E. Parrillo
6 Pericardial Tamponade: Clinical Presentation, Diagnosis, and
Catheter-Based Therapies, Hani Jneid, Andrew O. Maree, and Igor F. Palacios
7 Intra-aortic Balloon Counterpulsation, Zoltan G. Turi
8 Echocardiography, Sherif F. Nagueh and Priscilla J. Peters
9 General Principles of Mechanical Ventilation, Ismail Cinel, Smith Jean, and R. Phillip Dellinger
10 Ventilatory Management of Obstructive Airway Disease, John Marini
11 Mechanical Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Luciano Gattinoni, Eleonora Carlesso,
and Pietro Caironi
12 Bronchoscopy and Lung Biopsy in Critically Ill Patients, Thaddeus Bartter and Melvin R. Pratter
13 Noninvasive Respiratory Monitoring, Amal Jubran and Martin J. Tobin
14 Arterial Blood Gas Measurements, Robin Gross and William Peruzzi
15 Tracheostomy, Yaakov Friedman and Sabine Sobek
16 Chest Tube Thoracostomy, Vincent E. Lotano
17 Intracranial Monitoring, Alan R. Turtz
18 Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Jack T. Dinh and Adam B. Elfant
19 Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy, Boon Wee Teo, Nigel S. Kanagasundaram, and Emil P. Paganini
20 Use of Sedatives, Analgesics, and Neuromuscular Blockers, Michael
J. Murray, Lance J. Oyen, and William T. Browne
21 Principles of Drug Dosing in Critically Ill Patients, John W. Devlin and Jeffrey F. Barletta
Part II CRITICAL CARE CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
22 Shock: Classifi cation, Pathophysiology, and Approach to Management, Anand Kumar and Joseph E. Parrillo
23 Cardiogenic Shock, Steven M. Hollenberg and Joseph E. Parrillo
24 Septic Shock, Stephen Trzeciak, R. Phillip Dellinger, and Joseph E. Parrillo
25 Cardiac Tamponade, Zoltan G. Turi
26 Severe Sepsis and Multiple Organ Dysfunction, Sergio L. Zanotti-Cavazzoni, R. Phillip Dellinger, and Joseph E.
Parrillo
27 Hypovolemic Shock, A. B. J. Groeneveld
28 Traumatic Shock and Tissue Hypoperfusion: Nonsurgical Management, David J. Dries
29 Anaphylaxis and Anaphylactic Shock, Marilyn T. Haupt
30 Severe Heart Failure, Fredric Ginsberg and Joseph E. Parrillo
31 Acute Coronary Syndrome