This innovative new book provides a highly visual introduction to the basic principles and practice of intensive care medicine. Each topic is covered in a single two-page spread to make reference and study uncommonly easy and effective. Abundant full-colour line diagrams, clinical photographs, and radiological images demonstrate essential concepts at a glance.
Part of the successful Churchill Livingstone Illustrated Colour Text series, this volume is ideal for junior doctors, medical students and nurses.
Offers an accessible and highly illustrated introduction to intensive care medicine - ideal for any medical personnel working in the intimidating environment of the ICU for the first time
Concise, double page spread design permits rapid review of essential information
Concise but comprehensive coverage of all the main intensive care topics ranging from patient evaluation and ICU procedures through to organ system problems, infection, burns and poisoning
Text is enlivened by clinical case-based questions and answers and pull out 'practice point boxes' and 'fine print' points for more advanced readers
Wide range of colour clinical photographs, radiological images, ECGs and artwork schematics
International author team ensures suitability for all markets
Reihe
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Main -
Junior doctors rotating through ICU
Medical students.
ICU nurses
Subsidiary -
Any doctors or PAMs wanting an accessible introduction to the ICU
Maße
Höhe: 297 mm
Breite: 210 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-443-10060-4 (9780443100604)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
INTRODUCTION * The history of intensive care * What is intensive care?
SAFETY AND QUALITY IN THE ICU * Evidence-based intensive care * Critical care transport * Drug interactions
EVALUATION OF THE ICU PATIENT * Clinical excellence * Monitoring in the ICU
ICU PROCEDURES The airway in the ICU * Vascular access in the ICU * Fibreoptic bronchoscopy in the ICU * Cerebrospinal fluid, lumbar puncture and lumbar drain
ORGAN SUPPORT * Mechanical ventilation * Renal replacement therapy * Mechanical circulatory support
HOMEOSTASIS * Circulation * Oxygen delivery * ICU acid-basics * Carbon dioxide * Thermal disorders
FOOD, SALT AND FLUIDS * Feeding and starving in the ICU * Electrolyte abnormalities * Fluid therapy in the ICU * Blood and blood components
ORGAN SYSTEMS: CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM * Neurological assessment * Central nervous system injury * Weakness in the ICU * Seizures * Altered mental states * Analgesia in the ICU * ICU sedation * Organ donation
ORGAN SYSTEMS: CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM * Monitoring the cardiovascular system * Ischaemic heart disease * Heart failure in the ICU * Arrhythmia * Pacing * Cardiac surgery * Pulmonary hypertension * Valvular and congenital heart disease
ORGAN SYSTEMS: RESPIRATORY * Respiratory failure * Asthma * Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease * The ICU chest X-ray
ORGAN SYSTEMS: GASTROINTESTINAL/RENAL * Renal failure * Gastrointestinal bleeding * Gastrointestinal motility disorders * Cholecystitis/pancreatitis * Liver failure
ORGAN SYSTEMS: ENDOCRINE * Endocrine function in the ICU * Diabetes mellitus in the ICU * Endocrine emergencies
HAEMATOLOGICAL * Clotting and bleeding: a delicate balance * Thrombosis in the ICU * Bleeding in the ICU
INFECTION * Prevention and treatment of infections * Sepsis and septic shock* Central nervous system infection * Pneumonia * Infections associated with prosthetic material in the ICU * The immunocompromised patient in critical care * Tropical medicine * Clever bugs and defunct drugs
SPECIAL TOPICS * Inflammation * Burns * Obstetric critical care * Toxicity: poisonings and overdoses * Deliberate attacks: chemicals, radiation and bioterrorism * Advanced cardiac life support * Ethics: limiting and withdrawing treatment * Trauma
